Time-lapse photography is something that interests me, but it's not something that I ever really think about - but now having seen this, I want to do something similar, even though I don't think it would turn out quite as spectacularly.
It is a cinematography technique, according to Wikipedia, whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that which will be used to play the sequence back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.
It captures events which change slowly or in a subtle way over time and allows for these things to become more obvious - like day turning to night, tides changing, clouds moving across the sky, seasons changing, plants growing and so on.. Looking at these sequences from a photographic perspective, it is a great way of showing how light changes over the course of a day and how the angles of the sun and the colour of the light change.
When used within a film, for example as a short sequence, it would be a stylistic element of film form, used to show the passing of time within the narrative. If I recall correctly, it was used in Adaptation (2002) and possibly Planet Earth (2006), I'm sure I've seen it in other films, so I'll have to do a bit more searching...
References
- Philip Bloom, A Room With A View: A year of timelapses from hotel rooms, 2011, 15/3/2011 http://philipbloom.net/2011/02/03/roomwithaview/
- Wikipedia, Time-lapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 2011, 15/3/2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-lapse
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