Timeless - London Timelapse from MB Films on Vimeo.

 

       

 

 

     Timeless - London Timelapse from MB Films on Vimeo.

    Timeless – 2010-2011, 4mins 9seconds

    This film is intended to capture the spirit and endless energy of London. We decided to shoot it in a mixture

    of Timelapse and slow motion. We started filming in October 2010 in Richmond upon Thames just on the

    western edge of the city, and then the ensuing journey took us all the way through the city and back again, 

    ending up just a year later with a final sun rise shot in the Richmond area.

    The brilliant but temporary music score is by Rael Jones. He’s currently working on music for the new BBC 

    Sherlock Holmes series and he will be delivering a final score for my film in a month or so. I can’t wait to

    hear it, and I would like to thank him for all his hard work.

    I’d like to thank everyone else involved too; particularly my camera assistants; David Mead, Dave Calub,

    Laurence Beck and Johana Castro. They helped me lug around equipment and of course they kept me

    company during the long hours of time lapse work. They braved not only windswept bridges, endless 

    travelling, and brushes with local law enforcement, but also marauding gangs and drunken loons

    in the west end.

    I can’t thank my wife Johana enough. I made her stand around for hours while she was two months pregnant,

    and I nearly ruined our anniversary by insisting on filming some time lapse footage at the Oxo tower 

    restaurant half way through dinner, sorry.

 

Technical information:
Camera: Canon 7D
Lenses: 17 – 55mm f.28, 70 – 200mm f2.8
Edited in FCP
Graded in Magic bullet looks

    I used various shutter angles and intervals to achieve the best effect for any particular shot. At night I mostly

    wanted that streaky look, so most of it is either 1 or 2 second exposures with the lens stopped down to around

    f5.6. During the day I would shoot people shots at 1 second intervals which seemed to give that impression of

    frantic energy, particularly on a long lens.

   Hope you enjoy the film.
   Ed Beck, MB Films

   photography - Ed Beck
   camera assistants - David Mead, Dave Calub, Laurence Beck and Johana Castro
   editing – Ed Beck & David Mead
   music – Rael Jones