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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...

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 seconds or a minute long and they kind of punch you in the face. the allure with this one is that its four minutes long, and it takes the time to tell a story that moves at a pretty slow place. >> 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 w...

In stop motion, one frame at a time, for 11 hours. >> weve had great feedback so far. its not in the millions just quite yet, but most importantly we have had the demographics that we want to be feeding back feeding back. weve had the photographers that are going to be using click picks. >> if this film was edited digitally and not physically, it would be less enchanting because part of the magic is the fact that somebody actually did all of that. >> so many photos. >> you want to talk photos, m...

The first thing is when you see the focus is falling off, that immediately cues you to think that its small. and the second thing is the acceleration. when you look at things like the boats and the helicopter, they 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, wgn tv producer tony l...

Where one ends and one begins. >> i love when you realize that he takes a picture its showing up right above him, and you realize theres a system to it. >> we just decided to push it a little further and do stop motion inside of the frames and then do stop motion again for the entire scene. >> kind of wonder how he set up the frames, what kind of techniques he used. it would be really interesting to know. >> the entire scene there at the gorge was actually made up of two photos. we shot this fir...

Scenes and people within those scenes. >> theres sort of two ways people make these tilt shift images. on one hand, people use actual tilt shift lenses sometimes. but then people started figuring out ways to do it in post production. >> the thing that makes it feel like toys, its a combination of two things, really. the first thing is when you see the focus is falling off, that immediately cues you to think that its small. and the second thing is the acceleration. when you look at things like th...

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...

Arent digital, theyre actual physical photographs. why bother? >> a company called click picks that does photo printing asks me to do 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 quick print to print. quick print 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 its...

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...

Multimillion-dollar home used his love of lego and computers to rip off target stores. this is him captured repeatedly on store surveillance cameras with expensive lego sets in the cart. detectives say he did something called a ticket switch changing out the price by allegedly putting his own bar code stickers on boxes so he could pay less. a $249 millennium falcon set, for example, for just $49. police photos from a search of his home showed dozens of home made bar codes neatly organized. plus ...