3D TIME-LAPSE TREE PROJECT

This technique adds a highly dynamic component to time-lapse photography as we know it, and has been developed by Paul Godard, in conjunction with the Cape Town branch of Festo, a world leader in industrial automation.

Specimens of the most remarkable trees growing in the most stunning and natural environment of Southern Africawill be photographed through 3D time-lapse photography with children interacting around them to symbolise the unique relationship between people and nature, and to remind us that little time is left to save the environment and humanity.

It is too late to be a pessimist (Homeby Yaan-Arthur Bertrand).

The idea is to produce strong visuals with positive messages only which will touch people’s souls and inspire them. A tribute to the beauty of nature.

In order to regularly feed the Kids of Nature media awareness campaign from the very start of the production phase, the organisation will regularly release a new eye-catching trailer of the new 3D time-lapse movie combined with still and video imagery of the new trees shot at each location.

These short movies or trailers, combined with all the research information compiled on the trees, will also be published regularly on the Internet as multimedia e-books and dvds.

All these visuals will then be mixed together to create a final3D time-lapse documentary film(30 min) illustrating the most remarkable trees of Southern Africa and their importance for the local communities and the wildlife living in harmony with their environment.

These productions (e-books & dvds) will be donated to government- and eco-schools as well as sold on the Kids of Nature website in order to fund the project, so that more trees can be documented.

The project has already started with some trees in the Western Cape, and the team is raising fund for the project.