2009 Undokai in Under 2 Minutes

http://www.rockinginhakata.com/2009/09/11/1635/

That's right, it's 9 full hours of the fall Sports Day event at my base school in a time-lapse! Awesome? Indeed. You can see the full thing, from start to finish, including lunch break, in less than 2 minutes. Every time I watch it I see something new - boats whizzing by like they're on a highway, the swirls of the currents, the clouds, people in the stands, and of course the movement of the masses. Filmed from the third story of the nearest school building with the consent of the administration.

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Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Hakatajima
• high school
• Ehime
• Imabari
• Japan
• Sports Day
• time-lapse
• 伯方島
• 高校
• 愛媛県
• 今治市
• 日本
• 運動会
• 日速度
• コマ抜き

[stei1124]

Hey~ This was really awesome to see. I'd like to see the undokai. Seems interesting. Is this an elementary school?

[DeasTube]

This is a public high school. :-)

[myargonauts]

fantastic idea! Did you show it to your kids yet? They're gonna love it. Smaller school, eh - only two color teams - must make it harder to choose the winner, as the other team is the "loser."

Such a picturesque location too!

[DeasTube]

You're totally right - it is a small school and the winner / loser dynamic is difficult to balance. In this case, the blue team (Soran) stomped the pink team (Guren) pretty handily. Such is life at a smaller island school, though! I've given a copy of the video to the school, but I've got to say....they don't "get it." Ha ha. They keep yelling 「早送り！」and asking if I can slow it down. Ha ha ha. I hope they show it to the students, cause you're right - the students will like it.

[MomoUraKinRyuu]

WOW. How were you able to do this without ever having the change whatever storage you were using for the footage?!

[DeasTube]

My camera has the ability to take one frame every 1, 10, 30 seconds, etc. So it really only took up as much space as a regular 2 minute movie takes... :-)

[hadashi05]

So much fuss and to do is involved. And the noise generated on the day is ear-piercing. Yes, two minutes is what I think an undo-kai is worth. Magnificent video!

[Haxxploits]

LOL those tankers are like drifting that corner in the water.

[ensortion]

Holy mother of Chuck Norris this is awesome!!! ^_^

[IlyaNejiTen]

Lunch break was funny. The little people's heads went up and down. xD

[KaxyzKoi]

that was really pro!