Development: Third day/ slow-motion

Finally, the long awaited last day of shooting.

We had some delays due to technical difficulties at Social Sciences building and had to postpone the production by a whole week (mainly due to both of us being preoccupied with day-to-day life and work).

This features the remaining sequences we needed.

It opens with  Radek pulling an earphone out  - this was necessary for the reverb effect. This sort of effect is used mainly in transitions between rooms (e.g. affecting the quality of the background music – incorporating the soundtrack in the production) or in conversation over a telephone – where person 1 speaks normally and person 2 has a reverb effect if person 1 is visible. Or the other way round if the camera is on the room where person 2 is. That was pretty chaotic I assume, but hope it did get the message across.

Anyway.

We needed this shot, we got it, and it was  high time to replace it in the video.

Furthermore we got the funny sequences (you can’t miss them).

The final part is the 550D footage already slowed down. As said above, since the framerate was correct this time, there was not much twixtor involved. Seems that framerate is most crucial setting for creating slow-motion: even with shutter speed around 1/100 the effect was amazing, even though the tutorials insisted on aiming between 1/1000 and 1/4000. This was impossible due to low-light conditions – even when using the external lighting 1/800 was the highest I could go for without underexposing the details.