Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. We decided to use time lapses in our film tailer as it is a good way to establish the location. We wanted to have some time lapse shots of some icnonic London locations so that the audeince can easily tell the setting for example we have a time lapse shoton the Golden Jubilee bridge with the houses of paliment and the river thames in the background. To create time lapses you have to film in one location for a long period of time and then speed it up during the editing.
Initially we sped up the footage x8 but we found that this made the people waling along the bridge go by to fast and this made our footage look quite jumpy and not very smooth which looked not professional. Instead we conformed the speed and kept reducigng it gradually at each side so that it would speed up slowly and we could therefore decide which was the fastest we could make it to see the people walking past without it looking jumpy. We then cut the footage so that we used the best parts to create the shots and not include any unitentional shaky-ness.
For the sound we were not able to use the original sounds which the camera recorded beceause you could hear the camera auto-foucusing so we had to silence the footage and then find sound effects od a crowd which we could lay over our footage to make it look realistic.
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