Music Video Features “Bullet Time” Using 625 Pinhole Cameras and 35mm Film
We’ve featured quite a few “bullet time” projects in the past that involve freezing time using rigs of tens or hundreds of cameras, but have you ever seen the technique done with pinhole cameras? That’s what you’ll see in the music video shown above. It’s for the song “Wasting My Young Years” by London Grammar.
The pinholes were placed at small distances from one another in the rig, and long strips of 35mm film were placed into the rig in order to “load the camera.”
A challenging part of the project was loading up the camera without accidentally exposing the film. The team turned off all the lights in the studio and then had 7-8 people feeding the 35mm film into the rig in complete darkness.
The rig was then ready for the shoot, which involving having models/dancers/band members jump into the air while the pinholes are briefly uncovered.
Once the film was exposed, the team spent 2 hours developing the strips themselves in large buckets. Finally, the processed film was digitized and animated into the “bullet time” “stopped motion” footage seen in the video above.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing how the project was carried out:
