Innovations: Time Lapse, Panoramas, and Other Cool Tools

The definition of social media tools was constantly being stretched as community journalists employed all kinds of cool tools to convey a sense of the variety, scope and size of the people participating in the WI Capitol protests. This included some remarkable uses of animation, time-lapse, extremely high def images, and 360 panaromic shots.


Tax the Rich: Madison Protest Time-lapse (Full Length)



A four minute video created from over 2940 Photos of protesters on the Capitol Square.

The photographer's note: Thanks to Katie Garrity, Clifford & Raihala, S.C. and Linda Clifford Law Office for letting me shoot in their business space. Also Debra Lopez, all the random protesters that joined in... especially the guys with the palm trees... and the Madison Children's Museum- amazing inside and out.

From the Youtube pages of Stumptownfilms

Wisconsin Capitol Protests in 360 VR

 

These are 2-D versions of photos found on the interactive 3-D page which will pop up if you click on this link.  Amazing!

Photographer's notes: 

During February and March of 2011 Wisconsin's state capitol became "ground zero" in the battle between Republicans and Democrats on the way forward, fiscally and politically in the United States. The debate has attracted tens of thousands of protesters daily to the capitol (100,000 on Saturday, February 26th and March 12th). Photos and video shown around the world illustrate what was happening but can't convey the experience of being there. 360VR can, especially when viewed in full screen with sound.

Come. Immerse yourself and experience this history making event.


copyright by Scott Witte