SlitScan Experiments Berchem from zerolmzero on Vimeo.

This particular film is the one we have decided to share with the class when we do our presentation, it is the most exciting film and it hasn't been edited, it does however have some fabulous natural colours coming through in the footage and it is an excellent example of how the slit scanning technique can be used to full advantage.

Slit Scanning is something that Charlotte has been researching into during the past week and we are planning to set the top camera on our rig to run the code for the slit scan as it films so that we will produce the effect as we film as opposed to recreating it later in an editing program which is far less experimental because we are controlling the outcome in that case.

I like slit scanning for its potential to monitor one pixels width at constant intervals and update it to create a time graph of sorts of the city that is highly visual. When the slit scan is run from a stationary observation point there will be coloured lines that wipe horizontally across the screen from where is observes other stationary objects, however when an object moves past the slit it will create a new component to the image as long as they are in the range of the slit. This is really good for creating time visualisations as the bigger the object and the slower it goes/ closer to the camera it is bigger change will be perceived and vice versus. I am excited about using this in my film and seeing the different patterns in the city that I may be able to expose with it.