Monday, December 19, 2016

More Great Videos

Last time I wrote about the group OK Go. It was about one specific video. Well, they actually have a number of amazingly great videos. One you might check out is this one -


Fun, huh?

Following is one that talks about the making of the video. Its doesn't get real detailed on the math, but does allude to the ratios and proportions that must be used to come up with the final product. Granted it might not be an earthshaking important application, but students would get into it and a teacher could make use of it if study ratios at the time. For example ... "The fast portion took 4.2 seconds and the entire video is 4 minutes 12 seconds. If the exploding paint sequence lasted 11 seconds in the long video, then how long..." You get the idea.

There are a lot of hidden gems. It wasn't until I had seen it a few times that I noticed them even throwing in the Doppler effect.

It seems like there is trick photography involved, but there isn't. It takes them weeks to do these videos. Pretty amazing and it shows students the hard work they put in physically and mentally. The videos are cool and addictive - both the videos themselves and their "making of" videos.