Here's the video Bathtub IV by Keith Loutit:
The technique used is apparently called tilt and shift. When I first saw this video and others by Loutit I thought, "shouldn't this bloke be doing music videos for big bucks?" Now, via John Althouse Cohen's list of not-quite-best songs 2000-2009, I've come across the clip for Thom Yorke's "Harrowdown Hill" (both pages may take a while to load). It's not by Loutit, but appears to use the same technique. I rarely watch music videos, so I can't really know, but I have a suspicion that in a few years' time, tilt and shift will be seen as sooo 2009.
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That's a nice effect - it seems to simply involve time lapse plus blurring the top and bottom of the picture to simulate a shallow depth of field.
But I think Harrowdown Hill predates this - isn't it a couple of years old?
Yup, Harrwodown Hill predates Loutit's films (or at least the dates when he uploaded them to Vimeo). I didn't say otherwise in the post.
The comments section at Loutit's several videos contain some discussion of how it's done, although he is understandably reluctant to give away details.
Interesting - looks like he does them truly with tilt-shift (mostly titlt I guess) techniques to alter the depth of field - the Harrowdown Hill film was all done in post-production.
I like the footie ones - they're like playing 90s computer games.
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