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Tilt Shift USA: Everyone Is A Little Universe


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It’s here! The tilt shift miniature test footage we shot during our 3 month research road trip across and back the United States in the fall of 2009. Watch it now in glorious HD and full screen! This was our first try at it and it was shot mainly to explore on settings, locations and motion. Of course some shots are working great, others less great ;) We’ve learned a lot and it helps tremendously in developing the storyboard for the actual stereoscopic 3D tilt-shift shoot of THE AMERICAN BACKROOM in 2011. BTW, We are currently in talks with tilt shift miniature-artists (some of them you might know) to get them and their talent aboard for the production.

But so far this is what we got. Enjoy!

Kudos to The Wind-Up Robots Killed My Cat who provided the beautiful music (and also the title).

Here’s a list of locations seen in the clip (in order of appearance):

    San Francisco, CA | Louisana State Route 14S | Grand Chenier, LA | Calexico, CA | New Orleans, LA | San Francisco | Grand Canyon, AZ | Los Angeles, CA | Palm Springs, CA | Hollywood, CA | Santa Monica, CA | outside Slab City, CA | Coleman, OK | San Francisco | Camp Verde, AZ | Monterey, CA | Lavina, MT | Santa Monica again | Melrose, NM | Santa Monica | Austin, TX | outside Bakersfield, CA | Page, AZ | Austin | Santa Cruz, CA | Austin again | Hollywood | Austin again and agian | New Orleans | Austin | Page | Austin | Santa Cruz

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Diorama USA

We’ve been mentioning it before, but haven’t shown anything from our little tilt shift miniature faking video shoot we did during our research trip last fall. At least so far! Finally found the time to continue working on it and it will go online before the end of the month. That’s a promise. And here’s a little tease. Enjoy!


Jack Ambridge’s Little Lands

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Although Jack Ambrigde’s photos were shot in Great Britain rather than the US, we are still going to post ‘em here. Let’s just say for inspirational reasons, since we will also utilize tilt shift photography – which is responsible for the awesome miniature effect in Ambridge’s pictures – during the shooting of THE AMERICAN BACKROOM. Keep up the amazing work, Jack! View more in his Behance portfolio…

BTW, we are currently finishing up a little tilt shift test video we shot during our research trip. It will probably go online within the next ten days! Check back soon or join our mailing list so we can keep you posted.