The Sandpit

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.

Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here:

http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam....

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• New York City
• NYC
• timelapse
• tilt shift
• photography
• helicopters
• crowds
• diggers
• people
• city
• miniature

[superman1113215]

can someone explain to me how this works? i mean i know its real but they look like miniatures, and if you answer me with "they used a tilt-shift lens" YOU DONT FUCKING SAY

[superman1113215]

can you guys please thumb down my comment so i dont keep getting replies

[super58173]

@superman1113215 - From what I know, the frame-rate on the rough film was made a bit choppier, and unwanted particles were removed by software. Softening of light and making the colors stronger was added to simulate a lack of scale. Blurring everything that wasn't of major focus would make it easier to trick the eye.

[TheVinnyDshow]

@superman1113215 the camera lens alters the point of focus causing some areas to seem in focus while others do not, depending on how much the lens is shifted it will affect how the image or video is viewed such as the lens can either make a large building seems to be completely parallel or can be used to over exaggerate the buildings size , the tilt affects the point of focus and the depth of focus,the more the lens is tilted the shallower the "angular" depth of focus is which causes this effect

[FLYBOYproductions94]

AWESOME! loved it.

[jbarbeau92]

0:31 I would ALWAYS steal helicopters from there in GTA IV

Also, awesome video, so glad to live here now.

[TurboSphinx]

@moviemyles100 ah cool yeh ive heard there are ways to get the audio from youtube. Would still love to buy a full album though :D

[moviemyles100]

@TurboSphinx if you want the song to this vid go to vid yo mp3 then paste the vids url and then download and you get the sound of the vid for free

[TurboSphinx]

As much as I love the visuals, I think I love the music even more. It fits perfectly with the tone and is just a beautiful song. Its a shame therefore that I cant find the band anywhere; I would absolutely buy an album like this. Much better than 90% of the rubbish in the charts.

[94vujke]

New SimCity!