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Choppy/Accelarated Movements
Hey Everyone,
I’m shooting a music video and the band asked for an effect, where the performance somehow looks choppy/accelarated/zombie-like but pretty much is insync with the song. You can see the effect in this video (https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=34617222) from 01:58 min. I think it’s a pretty common effect, used in some Missy Elliot videos, too.
Does anyone know how to achieve the effect? I would imagine it’s rather an in-camera-effect, but maybe it can also be achieved in post? Any help would be so much appreciated.
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In the red-suit shots, to my eye, it looks like the band is just moving that way. I don’t see any effect. As for the other performance shots, it looks as if the editor cut right on a jerky camera movement a lot.
If you’re looking for time effects, consider having the band sing, play and move at half speed, shoot it, then speed it up in post. Also consider applying the Posterize Time effect to a lower frame rate than your normal playback rate. But as I wrote, I don’t think there’s an effect in those shots from the Guano Apes video.
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It’s difficult to say for sure, because the compression on that video is pretty harsh, but I might suggest doing a test where you slow the song down by a factor of two, then film the band performing playback live to the slowed-down song.
When you bring that footage into after effects, use the interpret footage tab to double the frame rate. The result may or may not be exactly like what you see with the red suits, but it will definitely be jerky and unnatural.
And because the performance was filmed at half speed, the 200% playback should sync with the original track. (At least for the short shot durations that Music Videos generally use.)
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I thought I said that … 🙂
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Huh. You sure did. Not sure how I missed that.
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Great minds think alike?
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I don’t know if you figured this out already, but you’ll find similar movements in Daft Punk’s “Around the World” music video by Michel Gondry. Google it. They did it by playing the music at half speed while filming, having the people dance to that, and then speeding the video back up to normal for the video.
I’m sure the people in this video did something similar. Hope this helps.
Jim
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