Two great videos for you today. The first was sent to me by @wildbunny and is simply wonderful….
the second comes from @ianvisits and again, is so great
Which does it for you?
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Two great videos for you today. The first was sent to me by @wildbunny and is simply wonderful….
the second comes from @ianvisits and again, is so great
Which does it for you?
August 31, 2010 at 5:45 am |
I liked the first one better. It was a lot more witty.
Still the 2nd one is pretty cool.
I dont know if you can create the same effect with a digital camara or if it can only be made on film.
August 31, 2010 at 5:58 am |
Nice. The first one was clever, but a bit too frenetic for my taste. The second should be a reminder to UFO hunters and ghost hunters: not everything the camera shows you is what you think it is….
August 31, 2010 at 1:02 pm
noooo! Chris G. the second one is alien technology…don’tyou watch tv or read?
he he
August 31, 2010 at 6:51 am |
Blimey, I’d go with the 2nd one because I still don’t get it. I’d have said it was a toy helicopter, but apparently it’s an ‘extraordinary stroboscopic effect’???
September 1, 2010 at 6:40 pm
the frame rate of the camera means that it looks still even though its moving. The revolutions of the propeller per second are a multiple of the the cameras frame rate so if the helicopter blade spins at 18000 rotations per second and the camera films at 30 fps then you will see the blade in the same place every time so it will look still. (18000/30 = 600 so you will see it every time it has done 600 rotations)
August 31, 2010 at 7:25 am |
The first was clever, but I liked the second better.
Martha:
“stroboscopic” – an effect whereby moving objects are made to appear stationary by intermittant illumination or observation.
In this case, it’s intermittant observation. Every time an image (frame of video or cell of film) was captured, the rotors had completed an exact number of revolutions, and so in every image in the video they were in the same place relative to the body of the heleicopter. This makes them appear to be stationary.
August 31, 2010 at 8:02 am |
Well loved the first one but the second one has captured my attention more!
August 31, 2010 at 8:37 am |
The first one was crap. The second one only made sense when I read the title, conveniently located at the end!
August 31, 2010 at 9:03 am |
I like the second better for the “one in a million” chance of the capture rate of the film to equal the rotation of the blades. That “serendipity” factor trumps the intense planning of the first video.
August 31, 2010 at 9:13 am |
Second one for me. No matter how clever the first one is, it’s still an advertisement.
August 31, 2010 at 9:47 am |
The first one impresses me more for the effort required to put into it. The second one is quite mundane if not a complete accident.
August 31, 2010 at 10:24 am |
I prefer the 2nd one. Its a very simple but strong effect. I am very supprised that the speed of the rotor blades remained constant throughout the video.
The second one was good, but we seam to be seeing alot of these so called illusion video adverts lately.
August 31, 2010 at 10:38 am |
Here’s another stroboscopic effect
August 31, 2010 at 12:59 pm
cooooollll
August 31, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Yep, stroboscopic effects get even better when combined with a CCD rolling shutter.
August 31, 2010 at 11:13 am |
@moi:
Lovely video. Very strange.
August 31, 2010 at 12:27 pm |
I liked the first video as it was clever and there was more thought put into making it.
August 31, 2010 at 12:30 pm |
@moi,
Now that’s more like it! Something that made me stop for a moment and think.
August 31, 2010 at 3:19 pm |
The first one would have been better for me if the photographic elements didn’t stand out from the background like a sore thumb. And if it weren’t an ad.
August 31, 2010 at 4:03 pm |
First one is too clever by half. More techno-glitz than real imagination involved. Also, streaming rate was so bad it stopped every 2-3 seconds for 2-3 seconds… very annoying. Was that just my experience? Second one was more interesting, simply as phenomenon.
August 31, 2010 at 5:00 pm |
excellent both.
But the first one is the creative one!
August 31, 2010 at 6:15 pm |
I like them both but it has to be the first one. I do like Pavement art, but the second one was very strange to watch. x
August 31, 2010 at 7:34 pm |
Both! am not able to choose
September 1, 2010 at 12:10 am |
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September 1, 2010 at 2:51 pm |
The first one was amusing, but a little tiring after a while!
I didn’t get what the second one was about – I kept thinking that this must be some kind of model helicopter, and something quirky would be revealed at the end of the clip. After I saw the title at the end of the video, then understood what was being demonstrated. interesting.
September 2, 2010 at 1:07 pm |
Umm… The second one is not strobing, the blades are not moving (you can see stationary shadows on the sides of the helicopter). I believe this is someone doing that thing they mentioned on “Bang goes the theory” a while back about switching off the blades of a ‘copter and kind of free-falling.
I absolutely do not believe the blades are moving though – would be no shadows
September 2, 2010 at 1:10 pm
First one is clever though – must’ve taken a whole lot of time and patience!
September 2, 2010 at 2:14 pm |
I enjoyed watching the Rabbit more and especially liked the flipbook element in the lecture hall/theatre.
Both fun to look at though.
September 6, 2010 at 6:50 pm |
Easily the second one for the sciencey Aha! moment.
The first one tries soooo hard to be a viral video. Almost all of the scenes of the rabbit going through the trompe l’oeil curtains were spoiled by the video also depending on editing tricks. You could see the curtains, and knew that the effect could be perfect with just the editing tricks.
The stand out effects were the flipbook in the auditorium, the corridor rotated 90 degrees so the rabbit could run along the wall, and when they made fun of their own video by showing the cardboard boxes behind the curtains.