Production Musings

Sweet Stop Motion

// February 4th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Thoughts

Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence.

I came across this video recently that highlights a great little tune by Oren Lavie called “Her Morning Elegance.” The video was directed by Yuval and Merav Nathan as well as Oren Lavie. From all I’ve read, it was shot with a still photograph camera placed above the bed over a 2 day period. The video is made up of over 3,000 still images. In my mind, stop motion has been a kind of novelty way of making a video but in this case it’s just beautifully done! Here’s one I find myself watching over and over!