We opted out of hiring videographers for our wedding (too expensive, wasn't convinced we would ever watch it again, wasn't sure if I wanted to see myself on video in 30 years...eep!) but Design Sponge recently featured one that makes me wish we'd thought to do this – a time-lapse and stop-motion wedding video from Bayly&Moore!
The videographers even included the recent wedding photo prop du jour, balloons. (My sources tell me photos taken in or around trains and railroad yards are the upcoming engagement/wedding photo craze, so look out!)
I predict time-lapse/stop-motion is the next big thing in wedding videography – mark my words! Of course, we will probably see a slew of poorly produced copy-cats, while this one is top-notch in terms of editing and production quality. The fact that the couple is cute, photogenic and has great taste doesn't hurt!
Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby film frames are captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back (think videos showing a lunar eclipse, or the blooming of a flower). The first use of time-lapse photography dates back to 1897 and was further pioneered in feature films of the early 1920s.
Stop motion animation techniques, which essentially make inanimate objects look as though they are moving, can also be traced back to the late 1800s/early 1900s, with clay animation (claymation) following quickly. Stop-motion was widely used from the 1960s through early 1990s, with clay, puppets and origami. GCI (computer-generated imagery) has all but rendered stop-motion obsolete as a special effects tool, but it's unique quality makes it perfect for certain creative applications. It is a really fun, easy animation technique that requires not much more than a digital camera and a computer with some video editing software (like Apple's imovie or Quicktime Pro).
Not to toot the old husband horn, but Oliver made a fun (if a bit disturbing) stop-motion video for a school project once, using tomatoes and some of my leftover foam core.
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