This band made an entire music video using the Prisma app
Aug 11, 2016
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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Video capability just can’t come to Prisma fast enough for some people. For band Drive like Maria, it certainly can’t. For their new video, Deep Blue, every frame was processed using the mobile app.
Using a mobile app to process a video is not uncommon. When the app you’re using only works one still shot at a time, though, it’s a tedious process. It’s also a long process. The result seems worth the effort, though, at least in this case.
There are, of course, things you can do to speed up the workflow a bit. Dropping the framerate of the footage is one way. If you process at 10fps rather than 24fps, you’ve already cut your processing time to about 40%. Sharing the workload through multiple devices also brings that time down further.
The footage was shot using a Sony A7S II and Canon 24-105mm f/4 with a Speed Booster. This was processed using an iPhone 6, an iPhone 6S and a Huawei P8lite. Finally the video was edited using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
You may remember that a few weeks ago we showed you a timelapse processed with Prisma. The timelapse showed a faster video-like frame rate, but I think I actually prefer the slower frame rate in this music video. It seems to fit better with images that appear closer to animation than they are to actual video.
When Prisma does finally get video capabilities, I wonder how long it’ll be before somebody remakes this one.
What do you think? Have you joined in with the Prisma craze yet? Or are you still not interested? Let us know in the comments.
[via No Film School]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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One response to “This band made an entire music video using the Prisma app”
The effort from these artists is really impressive. But that’s creativity from these artists. Prisma as an app is otherwise just not as impressive. I have yet to see any prisma pictures that are better than the original picture!