Stop Motion Musical Tours Through a City and a School

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Michael Zhang · Mar 23, 2013

Photographer and director Greg Jardin made this creative music video for the song “New York City” by Joey Ramone. It’s a stop-motion video that features 115 people (some of them random pedestrians yanked off the street) traveling backwards through various locations in New York City.Although it looks like it was shot using still photographs, Jardin actually shot most of it at 30 frames per second using a Flip camera. It was then changed to 8fps using QuickTime Pro. He notes that you can “essentially do the same thing by just changing the exported frame rate in After Effects.”

Here’s a director’s commentary video with some behind the scenes information. Even though he simply talks about the random people in the video for much of it, there’s some interesting stuff on techniques used afterward:

Inspired by Jardin’s video, another photographer named Kevin C. decided to create a similar video for his high school. Unlike Jardin’s, Kevin’s video is an actual stop-motion with stills shot using a Canon T3 DSLR:

The video features 140 students and faculty at the Hunter College High School. A total of 1991 photographs were shot and then turned into an 8 …

By: Michael Zhang

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