Time-Lapse

A heavily under-cranked shot, usually taking 1 picture per second or less. Popular subjects of time-lapse are clouds, the moon, sunlight shining through a window, or a growing flower.

May be part of a Time Passes Montage.

Examples of Time-Lapse include:

Advertisting

• Often used on Transformers toy commercials when the actual figures' transformations are being demonstrated.

Film - Animated

• An animated version can be seen in Big Hero 6 in the Hard Work Montage/Time Compression Montage during which Hiro creates his microbots.

Film - Live-Action

• Used heavily in Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi.

Live-Action Television

• It was used a few times in Life After People for plants growing.
• A lot of the stuff built on MythBusters took several days to construct. It was an hour-long show. The narrator refers to it a few times as the editors' favorite trick.
• The time-lapsed clouds variant was used frequently to show the passage of time (as well as to hint an the alien setting) in the nineties sci-fi drama Earth 2.
• Used in-universe on an episode of Psych as a film student is recording the blooming of a rare plant. Shawn and Gus go through the frames to see if the camera captured a mummy escaping from a museum.

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