IndyStar.com uses time-lapse photography for NFL

January 21, 2008 · · 1 Comment

Photographers at the Indianapolis Star have come up with a novel way to follow the NFL’s guidelines and produce video-like multimedia content — using time-lapse photography to create audio slideshows that look like .

The staff tells the Associated Press Photo Managers Association:

We wanted to do something special from our Indianapolis Colts football games with multimedia, but hit a wall with the NFL rules against newspapers shooting video on the field. Several of our photographers, including Robert Scheer and Sam Riche, had experimented with time-lapse projects using a still camera and motor drive bursts, putting the images together with Quicktime to give people a -like experience….
While shooting pre-game features the photographers gather audio using small Olympus recorders of the fans and scene around the stadium. Right now we are putting the audio, the Quicktime bursts, and a selection of traditional still images together in Final Cut Pro.

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  1. Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Monday squibs on January 22nd, 2008 1:53 am

    [...] IndyStar.com uses time-lapse photography for NFL. The Star produces some interesting work, using flipbooks because they get around NFL restrictions on video. Can we expect a crackdown on audio slideshows next? [...]

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