more video styles - stop motion

Im looking at video styles, stop motion in particular as thats what i have mainly worked with in the past on previous projects. I looked more in to tilt shift stop motion as it is some thing i have played with briefly.

I love this music video, i think its a really original approach and also very entertaining to watch, the use of the tilt shift is the bit i am mainly interested in. it works well and gives a real interesting effect. i like the pans and zooms with in the shots as well. this makes each shot a bit more exciting.

The above video is another look at tilt shift time lapse. there is some amazing shots in here. the tilt shift time lapse works well in very busy areas and the speed is usually faster than real time but not to fast. the music works well with this but to slow paced for what speed i need to be thinking in. one of my favorite shots is the boat on water also the Eiffel tower area.

I stumbled across this when searching the pages of vimeo. i think the start of this is very strong compared to the middle and end. it gets to slow and boring. the use of split screen works well because it essentially is giving you three bits of information instead of one. this could be a useful technique if your making only a short film. the shot where it was split up in to three and the content was all cloud shots worked well.

I have done some general research on tilt shift and some people have been using after effects, bellow is a quote i found that explains the process.

"I brought the clip into AE and made it 3D. Then I added a camera with the depth of field ON. I tilted the video back on the X-axis about -45 degrees. then i added a corner pin effect and brought the corners in to correct for the skewed angle and make it fill the frame. Then if you increase the aperture and mess with the focal distance, you pretty much got it."

I personally think its worth having a go at this, i plan to have a play around using this effect in after effects to some footage as its some thing i have done manually in the past.