Since taking delivery of his camBLOCK Motion Control rig, Graetzmedia director Dan wanted to shoot a piece seamlessly combining timelapse with slow-motion shots. Collaborating with iconic skate brand Z-Flex was the perfect opportunity.
A detailed pre-production shoot allowed us to test our compositing techniques and locations, and make sure the shots we’d planned were going to work without too much painstaking rotoscoping.
This video won a Gold in the “Experimental” category at the 2012 Australian Cinematography Society Queensland awards, and went on to win the Golden Tripod at the National ACS awards!
It also features the beautiful soundtrack of Cowper – Morning Prayer, which I’d filmed with the camBLOCK a few weeks before.
There was a lot of industry love for this piece, so I edited a behind the scenes piece for Graetzmedia, to show everyone how it all went down:
Director/DP/Editor/Colorist: Dan Graetz
Producer/1st AC: Benjamin Evans
Motion control operator/compositor: Jaymis Loveday
Compositing: IVMotion (ivmotion.com.au)
Soundtrack: ‘Morning Prayer’ by Cowper (cowperband.com)
Soundtrack editing: Matthew Redlich