Vertical Pixilation is where the camera is in the ceiling and the camera is always in the same place with the action moving around this is done so it looks as though the object in the shot is moving. In each scene things are moved around to make it look as though everything in the scene is moving forward. If the correct equipment is used then vertical pixilation can be done anywhere, when they first started working on 'Sorry I'm Late' it was filmed in Tomas' flat using the floor space.
The camera is high up but there is a lot of cables down below to make it work.
The most important thing when working with this type of pixilation is the movement, if the movement is too big it won't look right and it will look very jumpy while also if the movement isn't enough then it won't work that way either. Although as stated at sorry-i'm-late, there is the possibility that the camera can also be moved when moving especially 'walking' but they decided not to do it this way as it would have been too complicated to do due to the lack of space they had.
The plan for 'Sorry I'm Late'
They did a casting where people had to come in and act out what Tomas had already done, they had to cast four people these roles were for the late guy, the girl on the swing, the front of the panto horse and the back of the panto horse. The late guy had the main part because the video was based around him the guy that played him was called Simon Carroll Jones.The actual shoot was shot in the Amadeus Centre in London. Although the majority of it was planned some of it wasn't including the shark attack as they hadn't had enough time in the studio to work it out so Tomas had to show by hand how he wanted it.
Tomas showing the shark scene exactly how it wanted to be done.
I think that the hardest part of this would have been for them to make it look as though he was actually swimming, although after researching and reviewing how they did it I have a feeling that the only hard part doing that would have been trying to get the moment correct to make it look as though they were actually swimming. To get the sea there is a transparent gel with a blue tint which is placed under the camera, I think that worked really well and it was very effective.
The transparent gel which was used to create the 'water' effect.
I really like the idea and concept of this I think that it's different but really fun to watch, I like the fact that it's just a simple idea using a number of props. It fun to watch and think about how so many movements can be made by just lying on the floor and moving around with the set. I don't think that there was a lot of money gone into this but I think there was a lot of time due to how good it looked at the end.
http://www.sorry-im-late.com/watch.html -September 21st
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