It’s been a good week in Berlin, exhibiting and working from Annesofie and Daniels’ appartment. We’ve been sketching out some ideas for the dynamic timelapse software for the research station. And doing some production related stuff. But this post is a short glimpse into an experiment with some of our footage from Savissivik, 2009.
At that time Ole worked with Quillaq on the plain at the foot of the Savissivik hillside. There they filmed a series of long duration shots of Quillaq approaching a fixed camera. These shots have been our boilerplate footage for experimenting with ways of doing the dynamic timelapse footage.
The challenge is to find an algorithm that will speed up the video when there is low activity in view, and slow down when there is high activity. High activity can be ‘movement’, but also ‘closeness’.
Here’s a small screencast from the software sketch – with a guest appearance by Silas, our newest project member 
