If you only had about three minutes to spend in the country of Austria, let Thomas Pocksteiner and Peter Jablonowski give you the tour.
The filmmakers, who formed FilmSpektakel, have just released a breath-taking hyperlapse tour of their country. The two-minute, 54-second video took two years of filming and was winnowed down from 5 TB of raw footage.
Their travel Valentine, A Taste of Austria, awakens the senses with movement, sweeping and seamless color changes with day-to-night transitions and 360-degree views of architectural and natural wonders.
Posted to YouTube on Monday, A Taste of Austria already has more than 814,000 views.
The film does not take the same point-of-view plunges favored by time-lapse specialist Rob Whitworth, whose Dubai Flow Motion was featured on Cult of Mac last month. But the FilmSpektakel crew work with the same patience, precision and technical expertise. The visuals do not disappoint and the high-speed tour leaves the viewer feeling awe-struck and well-traveled.
One national treasure is heard but not seen. The voiceover for the film comes from the original audio of Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic stratosphere skydive in 2012.
Vienna-based FilmSpektakel creates all kinds of motion content for clients but is quickly making a name in carefully crafted time-lapse storytelling.
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