Making Of... Moray McLaren - We Got Time

The Music Video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9e38c...

All the animations seen in the music video were created in camera. No stopframe techniques, or computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The animations in the side-on views were produced by the camera capturing the moving reflections from the mirrored carousels, and the animations in the top-down views were created by matching the cameras frame rate to that of spinning record. The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply cutting or wiping between the bits of footage.

All the animations were created, drawn and coloured by the director David Wilson.

MAKING OF CREDITS...
Directed, Edited and Animated by Tom Kingsley
On-site Shoot Footage by Tim Keeling

'WE GOT TIME' available now on iTunes
http://www.myspace.com/moraymclaren

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...
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[zeewabbit]

Dear David, Your work is a truly inspiring and beautiful work of art. I look forward to seeing more from your wonderful creativity. And thanks so much for the insights shared in this follow-up video. Best of luck!

[David Wilson]

That's very kind. Thank you

x

[blogospheric]

So inspiring! So creative!

What video camera did you use?

[David Wilson]

For this making of... a Sony Z1, and a Canon XH-A1.

For the actual video... Red Camera

[boredincornwall82]

Brilliant, but that doesn't explain how the images suddenly changed while the discs were spinning, like when the revolving acorn suddenly sprouts into a tree. They must have stopped the disc and changed it to achieve that...

[David Wilson]

All the animation was created in camera. The bit with the acorn growing into a tree was created by having a series of discs with various different stages of the acorn growth on, and we would cut between them. Each disc had 16 frames on, and in order to overlap between the animations (to make it run smoothly) each new disc would progress by 8 frames. The acorn-tree bit was one of the real ball-aches of the project, but worth it.

[onesification]

How do I make the praxinoscope what material did you use for the reflective surfaces?



[onesification]

Could you tell me how you made the mirrored shapes I would lik to try and make one myself

[onesification]

David is there way you could send info specs on how to build the mirrored shapes

I want to create an art piece using this technique



[tanger343]

thanks for sharing, i want to know how you created and build the biger turning platforme that you put all the turntable on, i am truing to build one for a game show. that will use the same speed thanks. realy need your advise.

[clipscommathe]

Thank you David and all of the team who helped to create this. Much love and respect also for sharing your behind the scenes x

[Marcin Frączek]

This is... amazing!

Could you make one of the disc available for download? E.g. the one with a running deer?

[Hookedup Joe]

brilliant

[NbaRapLover]

This is one of the most extraordinary videos I've seen in a long while, thank you!

[Jimi Chestnutt]

amazing.

[1415w]

Simply a Masterclass in how to be creative.

My understanding is that a typical music video budget is £100k. I hope they paid the going rate for this, because it is exceptional.

Regardless, it's probably worth even more on the guy's showreel for future commissions.

Most excellent :-)