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This project is probably the craziest ive ever done. >> its a simple boy-meets-girl story told in a really unusual way. >> this is sort of like when you have some magical fantasy of a photograph coming to life. and its people playing with their cameras. so the story line is also about the sort of medium theyre using with all those little photos flickering and changing. >> this is a great example of stop-motion photography. the filmmaker created a bank of frames and hes actually moving from one f...

>> a company called click picks that does photo printing asked me to create something for them. so since theyre a photo printing company, we definitely wanted to make sure we used real photos. so we sent those off to boston for click picks to print. they sent them back to me in a giant box with all these photos. >> like a well-oiled machine, they insert thousands of photos into the picture frames, while shooting the whole scene itself in stop motion, one frame at a time, for 11 hours. >> weve ha...

Together to create an animated effect. >> i was shooting with a digital slr. youre able to hold down the shutter and its able to take something like six, seven frames a second. so we acted out the entire scene with them moving incredibly slowly so we could kind of get it back up to a normal 24 frames a second. i used a story board for this. we had to mark down where the five photo frames would be, so when they jumped from frame to frame, we would be able to gauge where one ends and one begins. >...

Craziest ive ever done. >> its a simple boy-meets-girl story told in a really unusual way. >> this is sort of like when you have some magical fantasy of a photograph coming to life. and its people playing with their cameras. so the story line is also about the sort of medium theyre using with all those little photos flickering and changing. >> this is a great example of stop-motion photography. the filmmaker created a bank of frames and hes actually moving from one frame to the next. >> most sto...

Technique would be a perfect way to promote his town and his tv station. but instead of shooting thousands of still images like sam, tony created stop motion in his video camera. >> we decided to shoot video instead of still photography just because the process is a little easier and quicker to do. each shot is like two seconds long. the strobe effect is what gives you the stop motion look. and then the color correction. we mess with the saturation to make it look miniature and toy-like. and the...

Are the sequence that make the video. we shot 2,353 photos, give or take. >> but as labor intensive as dave wallaces video is, theres much more. the shots inside those frames arent digital, theyre actual physical photographs. why bother? >> a company called click picks that does photo printing asked me to create something for them. so since theyre a photo printing company, we definitely wanted to make sure we used real photos. so we sent those off to boston for click picks to print. they sent th...

Craziest ive ever done. ♪ >> its a simple boy-meets-girl story told in a really unusual way. >> this is sort of like when you have some magical fantasy of a photograph coming to life, where all the paintings always move, and its people playing with their cameras. so, the story line is also about the sort of medium theyre using with all those little photos flickering and changing. >> this is a great example of stop-motion photography. the filmmaker created a bank of frames, and hes actually mov...

Physical photographs. why bother? >> a company called click pics that does photo printing asked me to create something for them. so, since theyre a photo printing company, we definitely wanted to make sure we used real photos. so we sent those off to boston for click pics to print, and they sent them back to me in a giant box with all these photos. >> like a well-oiled machine, they insert thousands of photos into the picture frames, while shooting the whole scene itself in stop motion, one fram...

To promote his town and his tv station. but instead of shooting thousands of still images like sam, tony created stop motion in his video camera. >> we decided to shoot video instead of still photography just because the process is a little easier and quicker to do. each shot is like two seconds long. the strobe effect is what gives you the stop-motion look. and then the color correction, we mess with the saturation to make it look miniature and toylike. and then the lower layer is the one that ...

Seem to bob up and down. thats what a smaller thing would do. >> for his new york miniatures, sam used a still camera and normal lens to shoot 35,000 digital images to create his stop-motion effect then played with focus and color in post-production. in chicago, wgntv producer tony litle also thought tilt shift technique would be a perfect way to promote his town and his tv station. but instead of shooting thousands of still images like sam, tony created stop motion in his video camera. >> we de...