Need Help Identifying Video Techniques

Hogzy

Hello,
Can anyone tell me what filming techniques are used to make this video?

Specifically at 20secs, 30 secs, , The oranges/yellows look very pronounced, Would you need special video equipment to produce this colour effect or would a normal DSLR be able to produce it.

I would love to be able to create videos like this.
Thanks for any help.

Sorry if its in the wrong section

Eirebear

The oranges are very pronouced because of the time of day that it was shot - they stand out against the "blue" light of early dusk.

Chances are they've been put through some colour processing too in whatever programme was used to edit the piece together.

Yeah, an ordinary DSLR should be able to capture it.

Hogzy

Eirebear wrote: »

The oranges are very pronouced because of the time of day that it was shot - they stand out against the "blue" light of early dusk.

True, Reminds me of this

Freddie59

That is a really stunning production. Fantastic work.

challengemaster

There's no video equipment needed at all - it's a time lapse

kfish2oo2

From his Vimeo: "I used a Canon 5D Mark II." I'm pretty sure he used both video and stills time lapsing - the video was used in the train station scenes (outdoors and indoors) and I'm fairly sure the rest was stills time lapses. He probably had a very small gap between shots - I'm guessing less than 5 seconds (typically time lapses stills are every ten seconds).

The reason the lights (orange and yellow) look so pronounced is due to two things: complimentary colors and long exposure times. In the dusk periods, the oranges and orange-y yellows look more pronounced because orange and blue are complimentary colors, and oranges appear brighter in the presence of a lot of blues. If you look at the link that Hogzy posted you'll see a collection of film posters showing predominantly blue and orange themes - which is down to the fact that the combination of blue and orange is very aesthetically pleasing.

The second reason the lights look so bright (brighter than the human eye would see) is because the shots are long exposures, probably coupled with a lens with a very large aperture (low f/ stop). The image sensor (or film if you're using a film camera) is exposed to the scene for a longer period, thus allowing the sensor or film to capture much more light information, making lights seem much brighter and the whole scene seem like there is more light than in actuality. You can take this technique extremely far - so far in fact that you could make moonlight appear to be daylight, as shown in this Gizmodo article.