These montages are popular for cities around the U.S. these days. It’s about time for someone to do one for Memphis like the one recently posted for Louisville.
By Eric Stemen
This is a montage of time lapses taken around Louisville, Kentucky over the course of roughly a year and a half.
I started this project off on February 28, 2012 and took my last shot on September 13, 2013.
Through this video I’ve explored more of Louisville than I ever thought I would, and met some friendly people along the way.
This was originally going to be my first timelapse video, but I didn’t have enough to finish it in 2012. While waiting for leaves to return to the trees in Louisville, I headed to eastern Kentucky and shot for a week around there and released the second timelapse video I started on before releasing this one. When you don’t place a time limit on yourself you can get some really good shots, but end up taking a long time to make something as close to perfect as possible.
If you want to read some stories behind a selection of shots check out my site at:
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Music is provided by “Interstates”
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For a little something different, it would be nice to do such a montage but at certain points, slow the action down to real time, such as musicians playing blues music, people enjoying themselves at a nice restaurant, and people enjoying a forested park or the Greenline to convey that we are a busy City but we also can stop and enjoy ourselves.
It would seem that this would set us apart from other places and create a sense of uniqueness about Memphis.
This is just my opinion as someone with no experience in making this things.
There are a few out there, just not spliced together yet:
A few good bits and pieces: http://vimeo.com/29785439
Main Street: http://vimeo.com/68580910
Downtown (and monorail): http://videohive.net/item/downtown-memphis-time-lapse/5180245
Painting the field at the Liberty Bowl (not the whole thing, but the close up of the end zone is interesting):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qlHJ_GNG4g
Fog rolling in (and out) on the river (once again, not the whole thing, but parts of it are great!)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhf7yz_time-lapse-fog-rolls-into-memphis_news
River (and barge): http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-320755-stock-footage-time-lapse-of-a-barge-and-the-hernando-desoto-bridge-over-the-mississippi-river-at-memphis.html
UofM art room: http://vimeo.com/76842637
Beale Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtGXPX2z-s
FedEx Forum: http://www.commercialappeal.com/videos/detail/fedexforum-timelapse/
Hueys Midtown: http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g55197-d490095-i42307492-Huey_s_Midtown-Memphis_Tennessee.html
Memphis the Musical at the Orpheum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDteyqENDCM
Mobile Music Machine Downtown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Bt050l
Graceland: http://www.elvis.com/news/detail.aspx?id=7205
More Graceland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHoABV15xk
I would be up for doing one of these for Memphis, it would probably take about a month of constantly shooting. Then another two weeks to a month to edit.