Music Video Made Of 45,000 Photographs

Director Stitches 45,000 Photographs Into a Music Video
By Priya Ganapati
Wired
December 05, 2008

Excerpt:

"Cesar Kuriyama, a New York animator and lighting technical director, has directed a visually arresting music video using an interesting technique. Eschewing a video camera, he took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR... camera and stitched them together to create the illusion of video. The music video was created for the band Fat City Reprise and premiered at their homecoming concert in Philadelphia.

"Kuriyama says he directed the talent in the video to move as best they could in slow-motion while he had his director of photography Tommy Agriodimas shoot JPG bursts with the Nikon D200... The whole video cost just about $3000 to make, says Kuriyama, "plus the endless personal hours."

"Much of the editing for the video, says Kuriyama, was done on his MacBook Pro in Final Cut Pro. He managed the photographs in iPhoto and did the effects in Eyeon Fusion.

"Kuriyama's efforts is an interesting way to circumvent the challenge that photographers face when it comes to creating high quality videos at low cost. Compact digital cameras, which have had video-recording capabilities for years, offer disappointing image quality. High-end video and movie cameras are bulky and can be very expensive. But the $2700 21-megapixel Canon 5D Mark II capable of 1080p HD video and the $1300 12-megapixel Nikon D90, which can record 720p HD video could change the game. The two cameras deliver very high quality video and still images and could help photographers move to a single camera for their needs."

Fat City Reprise - Long Gone
By Cesar Kuriyama