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Home  Portfolio Tate Britain Bullet Time Exhibition
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Tate Britain Bullet Time Exhibition |
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On the 3rd of October 2008, i was asked by Nexus Productions to help them produce a Time Slice / Bullet Time exhibition in the main foyer of The Tate Britain London.
With a joint effort between myself, Nexus Productions, Chris Breeze and The Tate, we produced a system which produced an effect that represents the Francis Bacon painting, "Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" (as below) in Bullet Time Photography.
We used 15 DLSR cameras, wired them up to 2 servers which downloaded the images instantly as the images were being taken, those 2 servers then fed to a shared folder on another computer, which created a new directory on the fly as a each new set of images was taken.
Another 2 computers with 2 designers took those images, and ran a complex script which took the images, wrapped it into a ping pong ball effect movie bouncing back and forth. This Quick Time movie was then sent to one final computer, which was connected to a projector, where the images were projected live onto the wall of the Gallery from floor to ceiling.
The approximate time from the shutters firing on the cameras, to the projector showing the movie, was about 10 seconds...... amazing considering the last time we produced this, it took 4 weeks to show the client the movies!!!!
Each camera took photographs on approximately 0.6 - 1 second exposure time depending on the time of the evening as the sun disappeared. That's what gives the blurred effect.
The images arnt perfect on here, as we had from 5.30pm - 7pm to set the equipment up. Last time we set it all up, it took 3 days, so the cameras were aligned but not perfectly. Then half way through the evening a girl screaming whilst in the thrown and throwing her legs around kicked her shoe off by accident straight in to the rig, knocking the cameras every where!!!
If your the girl in question and your reading this.... you know who you are...your a clumsy madame!!! 
The people in the movies, were just random people we pulled out of the crowd or volunteered (some kind of demanded to be in it lol), at one stage we had a 15 min queue waiting to be photographed. Each person was asked to make movement and given 2 torches.
The rest was upto them 
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"Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X"
This is the image we were representing |
Time lapse movie of the whole evening, from 5pm until 10pm, it was taken with a Canon 5D on a 20 foot high support, with one frame every 30 seconds. |
You can see the time lapse movie of it all being produced above on the You Tube video and also see the following produced movies (only 5 of the 120+ that we made.
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"The Ghost"
This was a girl leaning forward at the same time as waving her arms about. This produced the ghostly effect. |
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"The Cross"
This girl was standing on the thrown, waving her arms around. probably my favourite movie of the day. |
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"The Team"
Starting at the top left is me (Ian Wright), then it is Chris Breeze next to me at the back. Across the middle from the left is Fletch and Luke of Nexus Productions and Ben is on the right from New World Designs. At the bottom is Jim from Nexus. |
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"A Ball Of Light"
A torch was used here and span around to create a ball effect. To me it looks something like something from the TV show Heroes!!! |
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"Sweeping Arms"
This lady is just moving her arms around, i love the way this picks out how every camera sees the same type of blur. |
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