BETTER MAN - Music Video

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2021-06-05 18:00:08

Better Man music video is a visual experiment shot using a 35mm analogue camera meant for still photography. Every video clip in Better Man is actually a shutter burst of 8 frames per second and so in essence it fools the human eye to simulate motion similar to the effect that the very first motion picture cameras were able to produce.

Before I can further explain the process of how this video was made, let me first illustrate the history of how still photography transformed into motion pictures.

If you take a rigid thin object like a pencil and wiggle it in your hand, you’ll see a blurry trail of the pencil. This is because of the “Persistence of Vision”.

Similarly, if 24 still images of say, a man running, were shot in a second and then played back at the same speed, an optical “illusion” of motion is created owing to this persistence of vision. This is why Motion-picture gets its name from still photography.

The phenomenon of persistence of vision was always apparent to the human eye, but it was first illustrated only in 1832 by Joseph Plateau (Belgium) and simultaneously by Simon von Stampfer (Austria) who independently developed the phenakistoscope and stroboscope (rotating discs with animated drawings) demonstrating what were the world’s first “movies”.