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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 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...

>> stop motion. its a technique where you shoot one frame at a time in rapid succession, then edit the frames 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...

During the fake filibustefilibu. second, a film maker works almost exclusively in stop motion. he directed a short thats been known in film circles as one of the most unique of the day. one of his films called the deep uses various common place objects to create a deep sea universe. it was made in 2010, but until now, it has not been available for the public to view. now, the full 90-second film is up to view on his page and serves a great reminder of creativity. the third, solidarity through ar...

>> 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 did use 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. >> i also love when you first realize...

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 then the lower layer is the one that has the defocus or blur on it that really helps you focus on th...

>> 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 stop motion videos are 30 s...

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 pixx to print. they sent them back to me in a giant box with all these photos. >> like a well-oiled machine, wallace and fren intrends insert their thousands of photos into picture frames. whim shooting the whole scene itself in stop motion, one frame at a time, for 11 hours. >> weve had great fee...

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 then the lower layer is the one that has the defocus or blur on it that really helps you focus on th...

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 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 fra...

Succession, then edit the frames 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...