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Photography: Albrecht Gerlach
Production: Tatiana Pereira @ Alta Media Productions
Camera Assistant: Tom Chabbat
Sound: Camille Michel unterdecke.com
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Make Some Tea 2 years ago

Superb! Those angles are amazing. How many cameras were used in this production?
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

Thank you, we had four cameras that day, however most of the footage is from two we had on top of a building on the Champs Élysées
iamkalaniprince 2 years ago

This is AWESOME !... what is your playback speed ?
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

25 fps
iamkalaniprince 2 years ago

Wow, what's crazy is that even at that rate they are sooo in sync ! I can't even begin to imaging the amount of shutter acutations your cams went through. I'm guessing you just shot continuously on the wide.. How long was the whole event ?

Truly beautiful work and the music/sound effects are spot on perfect.

You may or may not be interested, but this video inspired me to try my own tilt/shift. I didn't have a proper lens so just used one of my large format film field camera lenses. Anyways, here's my final result, one shot and "little windsurfers" : ) vimeo.com/8161506
shams 2 years ago

excellent!
ifranz 2 years ago

awesome. Thx for that one.
Matt Thompson 2 years ago

Excellent!
Jym Davis 2 years ago

love the little soldiers in a row
prashant menon 2 years ago

yea i agree
Kai Clear 2 years ago

loves it!
Brönnimann 2 years ago

how long did it take to animate this...? :))
GEORGE 2 years ago

this isn't an animation it's a low fps film
Jeremy Charles 2 years ago

It's actually called Tilt Shifting. You can read more about it here :

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
PeterHogg 2 years ago

That was great!
Michael Dalton 2 years ago

I love those shadows
PunkSAL 2 years ago

Wow its great
Christoph Schaarschmidt 2 years ago

this is awesome. what camera do you use? and how many pictures per second do you take?
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

Canon 5DMKII, set on continuous mode. I think it is 3.9 fps
rc cone 2 years ago

Great work! love the depth of field. it pulls everything off. thank you!
Arpege 2 years ago

Vraiment excellent
Fabiano Waewell 2 years ago

one of the best i've seen around! for real. love the angles, the impression of little soldiers, the speed, the focus, lenses, shadows, audio. just amazing. congratz!
Luis Caldevilla 2 years ago

Genial!
Timelapses.es 2 years ago

Just curious: At 3.5 FPS, the Mark II can shoot continually?. Or stop shooting passed a time?.

It´s not better to record directly the sequences and later speed it up to reach these 3.5 fps?
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

When shooting "jpg small" you only have the battery and the CF card as limiting factors... and eventually the life of your shutter. Shooting in continuous mode means 14.000 clicks/h (per camera)

You might have a similar result with the movie mode, but I do prefer the relatively big jpgs to work with.
Raffy Yllana 2 years ago

Excellent work.
Must be thousands of shutter counts per camera.
Denis Johnston 2 years ago

Superb: The weather and clear skies was an extra plus
Ocarina 2 years ago

Génial! Superbe réalisation!
Jon Rocatis 2 years ago

Love it! That tilt/shift look never gets old! :) Very nice audio as well.
Max Brill 2 years ago

Superb! One of the best examples of the technique I have seen in a while. You got some great spots to shoot from. I would love to watch this directly from the uploaded video though :-(
Code Emphasis 2 years ago

Brilliant. What program did you use to edit this with ?
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

Final Cut 6
Even Quach 2 years ago

Amazing, this is too cool! Great job.
KJ 2 years ago

This is fantastic. Great work. I love it. Some parts made me chuckle, strangely.
Stefano Bozzetta 2 years ago

great
Joe Moya 2 years ago

very nice
Tima 2 years ago

Superbe !
Petite question, tu passes par des masques (FCP, AE) ou par un plugin (style Magic Bullets Look) ?
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

Merci.
C'est presque tout fait au moment de la prise de vu avec des optiques tilt/shift. Il y a seulement le shot avec des avions ou on a simulé le effect avec photoshop.
Tima 2 years ago

Ok, je comprend mieux la qualité du tilt !
En tout cas c'est magnifique
John Kim 2 years ago

Cute. you are so brilliant.
Job van der Zwan 2 years ago

Great!

I love how you can see the swarm movements of the soldiers, like how around the three minute mark you see waves propagate in the group because the front row stops suddenly.
Josip Majer 2 years ago

what lenses did you use?
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

Canon TS-E lenses, mostly the 24 and the 90mm.
Claire&Max 2 years ago

Excellent!
Jonathan 2 years ago

This is excellent! I really enjoyed it.
moorooduc 2 years ago

good work!!!! awesome!! if only all soldiers were nothing but toy soldiers.....
JuanDeco 2 years ago

They do look like toy soldiers!
m_x 2 years ago

Vive la France !
Trak 2 years ago

Nikel
ATZ119 | Laurent Antonczak 2 years ago

superbes images, excellente bande son : bravo !
vous avez fait ce travail pour un client, ou c'est juste experimental ?
best ;-)
John Wilkinson 2 years ago

Absolutely fantastic!
Carl Williams 2 years ago

They look so small. I couldn't work out if it was animated or not for a while.
Thanks I really like this one.
planetMitch 2 years ago

This movie was highlighted on planet5D: blog.planet5d.com/366
jules.tv 2 years ago

and also on a Directors Videomaking site
jules.tv/
speer 2 years ago

Fantastic!!! Chapeau!
Edward McNamara 2 years ago

Good job persisting and getting that excellent vantage point. Thanks to the old lady who answered the door and let you up!
Dutch Films 2 years ago

Superb work
Jonathan Fletcher 2 years ago

Love the tilt / shift thing......very effective.
Trico Vicente 2 years ago

Excellent!!
what is the sound track name??
Unterdecke 2 years ago

Hi,

the soundtrack name is... "Toy soldiers". Sorry! :)
Thank you!

Camille.
Nishant V 2 years ago

Excellent effect and thanks for the link below to wiki below. I was fooled a bit like several of the guys above. For the first minute I was thinking, "Wow, this must have taken months of stop-motion work!" ;)
mister le 2 years ago

oh my so nice.
need a 90mm ts-e now
Stephane GIRARD 2 years ago

Bravo, superbe cet effet !!
Malte Goy 2 years ago

yeah yeah yeah.... greeeeeeeeeeeaaaaat!

did you shoot on remote via cable / wft or using CF cards? I mean it must have been quite a load of data.

and how about importing the files into final cut? is there a plug-in for placing the shots in order with the right fps you need or did you do it picture per picture ? :)
Claude Lyneis 2 years ago

In FCP before when you set up the project, you can select the time length of each frame. Then you import the photos all at one time and they will be in order with the right time dependence. I haven't figured out how to change the time length of the frame afterwords.
Walter Fieuw 2 years ago

Brilliant! great concept!
James To 2 years ago

Hey if you don't mind me asking. What kind of program u used to edit this wonderful piece? And how did u make them look so much like toys. Merci
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

It's edited in Final Cut. The "Toy Effect" comes mostly from the use of Tilt/Shift lenses. Camera position, frame rate, and lighting conditions play a big role as well. Cheers!
macjunki 2 years ago

did you blur the picture in post? was a mattebox involved? I'm just wondering how you got that short dof look at that distance! maybe I'm just stupid and you just shot wide open. Great video by the way, keep 'em coming!
Alta Media Productions 2 years ago

Thank you very much. This explains quite well how to do it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
macjunki 2 years ago

thanks for the reply, I've got to try that!
*xpi* 2 years ago

Merci pour cette vidéo, c'est très bien réalisé, chapeau à toutes l'équipe !
steve seagal 2 years ago

What's the story behind this technique?

awesome
samsamysamos 2 years ago

Haha, trés bon finish!
Dommage que les chars avancent si vite. Ca 'strobe' beaucoup.
Ian Savage 2 years ago

nice work.
Willem Wisselink 2 years ago

Very nice! well done and great fun to look at
Ain't It Bale News! 2 years ago

Absolutely fucking professional.
Stoparama 2 years ago

congratulations! well done ^_^
01TV 2 years ago

Greate Job, greate illusion
den ivanov 2 years ago

Amazing video!
brokenpoly 2 years ago

W O W ! this really made my day :D Outstanding work guys! Kudos!
Renato Balbino 2 years ago

Parabens Tatiana e toda a galera por aí! realmente inspirador...beijos!
KR34KX 2 years ago

Tout simplement HA LLU CI NANT O_O
Biskits N Groovy 2 years ago

are there any examples of how this photography looks on an individual close up? would that even work?
Ronny Stiffel 2 years ago

Absolutly awsome video! Never seen anything like this! Now I want 3 additional 5DMKII's and the TS Lenses too! :-) It's so great!

Is there any chance to buy the soundtrack/mp3? I love this kind of music!
Unterdecke 2 years ago

Hi & thank you for your comment.
My website is here : unterdecke.com
You will find a link to contact me & talking about the soundtrack!
Thank you again.
Camille.
Lyn¨ 2 years ago

Yep, excellent. Son et image, tout passe très bien. : )
glorife simon 2 years ago

You guys did an amazing job on this. Thanks for sharing!
Konogan 2 years ago

Superbe
deadius 2 years ago

WoW!!! Impresionante!!!
Great Job!!
DONGEDY 2 years ago

Excellente déclinaison sur ce thème du 14 juillet !!! La bande son est géniale :)
Unterdecke 2 years ago

Salut,

merci beaucoup!

Camille.

unterdecke.com
Fausto Nocetti 2 years ago

Super.
Maxime Bouley 2 years ago

Superbe vidéo
Fatback 2 years ago

Just perfect! Really amazing job.
NZH KYK 2 years ago

Excellent!!
I like this very much.Good job.
Theo Shaw 2 years ago

Great vid. I take it that this was using that plugin that blurs selected part of the frame so that in the right kind of wide shot we get this minature model effect. Excellent way to utilise it. I guess its most effective in urban settings.
Alessandro Nucci 2 years ago

I never realized so well how important is depth of field for our perception... the TS lens really swindles the whole thing... congratulations.
hexorl 2 years ago

sympa ! Marrant pour le feu d artifice j ai ete aussi au sommet de la tour montparnasse :)
vitaliy 2 years ago

love it!