Time Based Imaging

The module is based on moving images turned into a video. The module having three assignments, the first one is based on a 30sec video. The assignment requires the concept of Jim Campbell.


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Input= ideas/theme/concept
Program= manipulation
Output=Final production

Looking into the history of video production which started off with Eadweard J.Muybridge (09 April 1830 – 08 May 1904). Eadweard was a photographer who was known for his multiple uses of cameras to capture motion.

In 1872 a businessman and a race-horse owner of California questioned: whether all four of a horse’s hooves left the ground at the same time during a gallop. Muybridge decided to answer the question scientifically.

In 1877 Muybridge photographed a horse running using a series of twenty-four cameras. He used a series of 12 stereoscopic cameras, 21 inches apart to cover the distance of 20 feet. Other 12 cameras were arranged parallel to the track. Pictures were taken at one thousandth of a second. A trip wire was attached to each camera shutter which was triggered by the horse’s hooves.


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The series of photos are now known as ‘The Horse in Motion’.