Michel Gondry Rolling Stones effect

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AlexD

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My buddy is trying to experiment with the moving photo technique in Michel Gondry's Like a Rolling Stone video. This may be a common thing these days, but what is that effect? is it a post effect or something in-camera as well? Is there a term for it?

Thanks alot
 
I think you could just put alot of time into it and use a any morphing program and take every 5th or so frame and morph it to the next 5th frame. There also seems to be overcranking used for some of the shots, as well as morphing part of the image masked over realtime like Keith's arm while playing guitar.
 
Yes and Yes

There is a way to do it in AE, but there are powerfull morphing programs that might work better for you.

Google Morph After Effects and there is a tutorial on COW that might help. But in the end I think the stand alone morphing programs will be the best result.
 
drk3p said:
I think you could just put alot of time into it and use a any morphing program and take every 5th or so frame and morph it to the next 5th frame. There also seems to be overcranking used for some of the shots, as well as morphing part of the image masked over realtime like Keith's arm while playing guitar.
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Is that what he's doing?
For some reason I thought that video was shot with 2 cameras, and the morphing effect was being used to morph a shot from Cam A into a shot from Cam B.... but that was just my guess when I saw it.

It's been a while.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
Is that what he's doing?
For some reason I thought that video was shot with 2 cameras, and the morphing effect was being used to morph a shot from Cam A into a shot from Cam B.... but that was just my guess when I saw it.

It's been a while.
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Yeah I thought it was something like that also. I just can't see Michel gondry spending alot of time with a compositing program, but I really have no clue
 
AlexD said:
Yeah I thought it was something like that also. I just can't see Michel gondry spending alot of time with a compositing program, but I really have no clue
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Really? So many of his videos have an incredibly tedious post process... it wouldn't suprise me at all. I mean, it's not like HE is actually doing the post work.
:)
 
Well - here you go, a quick google search did the trick:
http://www.director-file.com/gondry/stones1.html

Another effect was to use one picture out of five from a film and do an image warping to do the transition. With four pictures per second (instead of 24 for a film), it was possible to recreate a film in a slightly different way and play on the elements of the image to create a weird atmosphere. The basic ideas to do the 'Rolling Stones' video-clip were there. Using only one or two still camera allows for great flexibility. It becomes useless to use big 35mm or video-cameras.
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Thank you so much for the links.

Do they seem post heavy? I always got the feeling that he was more old-school in-cam georges melies style.
 
Well - there is this Rolling Stones video we're talking about, and the others that comes to mind are a couple of the White Stripes videos he did -
"Fell in Love with a Girl" and "The Hardest Button to Button"
Both definitely post heavy.

But yeah - he relies on a lot of old school practical effects as well, definitely.
 
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