Accomplished Melbourne artist Rone spent a year designing and implementing an ephemeral immersive installation in the “Burnham Beeches”, a derelict 1930s streamline-moderne mansion on Melbourne’s outskirts.
After a six-week public exhibition, the property was to be returned to its original state with white walls and rooms cleared of the installed light and audio equipment, furniture, fittings, artworks, wallpaper, murals, penetrating trees and pervasive leaf litter.
In order to document the installation’s intrinsic impermanence, Rone decided to create a hyperlapse. He approached Digital Tsunami to organise the technology required, and so dolly track and a motion control rig and experienced operator were arranged.
In collaboration with Rone, lighting cameraman and editor Chris Matthews, and motion control rig operator Gerald Thompson, a sixty second hyperlapse sequence was choreographed. In synch to music, the camera panned, tilted and zoomed as it travelled along a twenty metre track, which was replicated more than sixty times. Two long tables in a dining hall and everything including the bar beyond were progressively removed.
In editing, Chris dissolved slowly between selected shots to convey the ephemerality of the installation as the room reverted from an immersive environment to a bare white shell.
Multiple matched cameras and a slider provided several viewpoints, intercut to emphasise the action.
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This time lapse captured on the morning of the double eleventh (November 11), 2016, demonstrates constant marine activity.
Shanghai is the largest city (by population) in the world, and has the world’s busiest container port.
From my office on the 55th floor, I was able to see 360 degree views of the city and apart from one stretch of water with wind towers, the skyline was entirely a built environment.
As this time lapse advances, tall shadows move across the river. These are shadows of three ‘skyscrapers’: Jin Mao Tower (421 m), Shanghai World Finance Centre (492 m), and Shanghai Tower (632 m), which together comprise the heaviest built environment on the planet!
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Sources:
List of cities by population
List of busiest container ports
In China’s far northern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (adjacent to Inner Mongolia), Hanas New Energy is an LNG and renewable energy producer.
For decades, coal has been the primary energy source in China, resulting in skies heavy with dirty particulate matter. Contributing to the transformation of the power generation sector in China, Hanas is utilising low-carbon and renewable energy sources to generate electricity. For years, Hanas has operated the most efficient LNG liquefaction plant in China.
In three locations around the Chinese East coast, Hanas plans to invest billions of RMB in the construction and operation of LNG terminals, and will then extend into the hinterland of some of the world’s most populous regions with LNG refuelling stations.
In advance of the LNG Expo of late 2015 in Singapore, Digital Tsunami was commissioned to produce a video to launch Hanas LNG onto the world stage.
With an international team of production personnel, Digital Tsunami shot time-lapse sequences and aerials in multiple locations around China from Yinchuan in the central north, to Zhuhai in the south, Putian in the north-east and Hong Kong in the south-east.
4K computer graphics were designed and developed to present a virtually realistic vision of the future assets. Ships, road transport, structures and sea were created and integrated with live action aerial footage of the actual sites of the infrastructure developments.
Cut to inspiring music, the final video, produced in three versions (bilingual, English and Mandarin / simplified Chinese), conveyed the scope and capability of this dynamic force in the rapidly evolving energy sector in China.
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For decades, China’s primary energy source has been coal, resulting in skies heavy with unhealthy particulate matter.
In China’s far northern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (adjacent to Inner Mongolia), Hanas New Energy is an LNG and renewable energy producer. Contributing to the transformation of the power generation sector in China, Hanas is utilising low-carbon and renewable energy sources to generate electricity. For years, Hanas has operated the most efficient LNG liquefaction plant in China.
In three locations around the Chinese East coast, Hanas plans to invest billions of RMB in the construction and operation of LNG terminals, and will then extend into the hinterland of some of the world’s most populous regions with LNG refuelling stations.
In advance of the Singapore LNG Expo, Digital Tsunami was commissioned to produce a video to promote Hanas to the world LNG market.
With an international team of production personnel, Digital Tsunami shot time-lapse sequences in multiple locations around China from Yinchuan in the central north, to Zhuhai in the south, Putian in the north-east, Shanghai in the east and Hong Kong in the south-east.
hanasnewenergy.com
Hanas New Energy is a natural gas and renewable energy producer in China’s far northern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (adjacent to Inner Mongolia).
As part of the transformation of the power generation sector in China, Hanas is generating energy via renewable sources to replace the coal which has been so prevalent in China for decades.
To showcase the 250 wind towers which Hanas has installed in Ningxia, Digital Tsunami shot time-lapse sequences and aerials of the Wei Li Jing windfarm, three hours south of Yinchuan.
The camera teams departed the hotel at three in the morning in order to arrive on location in time to capture the stunning dawn skyscape. In the winter chill, we welcomed the offer of faux fur Russian military hats and faux Chinese military full-length coats.
Naturally located in a high wind area, where thousands of kilometres of desert provide no resistance, the wind provided some challenge to the UAV pilot as he flew the DJI Inspire One past the massive Vestas wind turbines and 30 metre blades.
The resulting video, cut to an evocative piece of music, conveys the immensity of these 80 metre high towers, each generating 2 MW of power.
The footage was shot in 4K, edited with precision and mastered in 4k for presentation to government and bank officials and Vestas executives and a low-res version posted to Vimeo.
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Time lapse sequences enhance reality by accelerating speed and dramatically compressing time spans.
To further accentuate time lapse, several techniques are becoming popular with film-makers. Tilt shift generator, hyperlapse and slider mounted cameras are just some of these techniques.
Working together with photographer Graham Jepson, Digital Tsunami captured the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney CBD, viewed along the Harbour promenade.
Pedestrian and marine activity provided rapid action as the sun set and building lights switched on.
Multiple matched cameras and a slider provided several viewpoints, intercut to emphasise the action.
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Kaba (SIX:KABN), is a leader in global security technology, offering innovative solutions and first-class services for the protection of people and property.
For the company’s 150th anniversary celebrations, Digital Tsunami was commissioned to produce a dramatic time-lapse video of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour.
Shooting from TsimShaTsui East, over a period of four hours, Andy Chan and his camera team captured the fading daylight silhouetting The Peak, dynamic marine traffic and the spectacular laser and light show along the impressive skyline of Hong Kong island.
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