1. Time and Space in Motion Pictures
EMC/ JOUR 3000 Intro to Motion Pictures
Edward Bowen

2. Manipulating Space
• Creative Geography – “Illegally Yours” (1988)
http://movieclips.com/L2bc-illegally-yours-movie-museum-chase/

4. Manipulating Space
• Construction – “The Shining” (1980)
http://youtu.be/Ts1x6uADFtM

5. Prolonging Time
• Editing – “Notorious” (1946)

6. Prolonging Time
• Slow motion – “Max Payne” (2008)

8. Compressing Time
• Hollywood Montage- “The Roaring Twenties” (1939)
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/247517/Roaring-
Twenties-The-Movie-Clip-Volstead-Act.html

9. Compressing Time
• Hollywood Montage- “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942)

11. Compressing Time
• Hollywood Montage- “Champion” (1949)
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/21973/Champion-video-
clip-training-montage-.html

14. Manipulating Time - Ramping
• Ramping – Changing speeds rapidly within a
single shot.

15. Manipulating Time - Ramping
• Ramping – “Sherlock Holmes” (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug15jIs1nus

16. Manipulating Time
• Ramping – “Watchmen” (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Afk_onUh_s

19. Manipulating Time
• Reverse motion – The action moves
backwards.
• “Spin” (2005) Jamin Winans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc

20. Manipulating Time
• Time Lapse – Super fast motion created by taking
single frames of an object over time, compressing
minutes, hours, days, weeks or years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbMYzdjuBs

22. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – Single frame photography used to
animate objects. Effect that makes the animation
of drawings (cartoons) and inanimate objects (i.e.
Claymation) possible.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/31/50-incredible-stop-motion-vide

23. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QWUA17lwM

24. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963)
Ray Harryhausen
http://www.rayharryhausen.com/index.php

25. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQ2GPoZ_j4

26. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – “Neighbors” Norman McLaren
(1952)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZt_d_4OV-Q
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2976945051371832639

27. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – “Neighbors” Norman McLaren
(1952)
http://youtu.be/4YLBgXXxbMM

28. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – “Her Morning Elegance” Oren Lavie (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

29. Manipulating Time
• Stop Motion – “End Love” OK Go (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw

32. Manipulating Time
• Bullet Time – Time is slowed or frozen
selectively for the characters and the
environment, but not for certain characters or
the camera, which move through the
environment in real time. First popularized in
“The Matrix” (1999)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BulletTime

33. Manipulating Time
• Bullet Time – “The Matrix” (1999).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNrSNcaYiZg

34. Manipulating Time
• Bullet Time – “The Matrix” (1999).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KtghA0rkDY

35. Manipulating Time
• Bullet Time – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9qjdUlRs7Y

38. Manipulating Time
• Bullet Time – “The Other Guys” (2010)
http://youtu.be/cAVeXJbbrao

39. Time and Space - “10 Minutes” (1994)
http://vimeo.com/2455660