The creation of High Speed Cameras have introduction a generation of new footage to be created and exhibited. I, myself find great enjoyment in watching slow motion footage and time lapses footage.

Time lapse footage is created with a High Speed camera shooting a single shot or a slow tracking shot. This creates the illusion of a fast passage of time. Time lapse shots are usually used in the corporate film industry to show the development of a facility or to show the passage of time within a working environment. You may see time lapse shots in movies or TV series’ to establish a location of the script.

Time Lapse of a Building Build

Slow motion shots are used to emphasise a certain action. These are usually used professionally in the science community to show reactions of certain experiments. In the more exciting and entertaining side, slow motion footage can be used in films to show your protagonist doing some awesome things or to create tension of an event about to unfold (such as the style of Sopranos or The Godfather).

These shot would both be performed using high speed cameras. These are usually digital cameras that can have the frame-rate altered to create such shots. On some film sets, these cameras are loaded with film to use but that would be the more expensive route, since film costs a lot of money and if a shot is missed then that’s 10K thrown out the door. Many cameras delivery time lapse and slow motion settings in this generation but the larger slow motion and time lapse market of camera are the Phantom and GoPro. Phantom creating a high quality high speed cameras which can slow footage down up to 1 million frame per second whereas a GoPro is a light, accessibly and malleable camera that can be attached to near enough anything and create this shots (with a reduction in quality from the phantom of course).

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