Time-Lapse
A heavily under-cranked shot, usually taking 1 picture per second or less. Popular subjects of time-lapse are clouds, the moon, sunlight shining through a window, or a growing flower.
May be part of a Time Passes Montage.
Examples of Time-Lapse include:
Advertisting
- Often used on Transformers toy commercials when the actual figures' transformations are being demonstrated.
Film - Animated
- An animated version can be seen in Big Hero 6 in the Hard Work Montage/Time Compression Montage during which Hiro creates his microbots.
Film - Live-Action
- Used heavily in Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi.
Live-Action Television
- It was used a few times in Life After People for plants growing.
- A lot of the stuff built on MythBusters took several days to construct. It was an hour-long show. The narrator refers to it a few times as the editors' favorite trick.
- The time-lapsed clouds variant was used frequently to show the passage of time (as well as to hint an the alien setting) in the nineties sci-fi drama Earth 2.
- Used in-universe on an episode of Psych as a film student is recording the blooming of a rare plant. Shawn and Gus go through the frames to see if the camera captured a mummy escaping from a museum.
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