A time lapse works by setting up some recording equipment or a camera and setting it to shoot every 4 odd seconds, or 30 seconds, or 30 hours, depending on what your capturing and where and how fast/slow/action packed you want it to be.
Koyaanisqatsi People is a film by Godfrey Reggio, most of the film is Time Lapse's of lots of major cities and popular destinations. There are no words or speech in the movie because the movie and juxtaposition of the timelapse scenes and people in the shot, they are not needed because the cinematography tells the story.
Zoo: A Zed And Two Noughts
Is a film about two twins who were joined, who fall in love with a girl, then she dies, and to cope with her death, the two brothers because obsessed with capturing decaying subjects via time lapse.
Setting up a time lapse
Generally, when setting up your time lapse, you want roughly 24-30 frames per second, you need to do some quick maths before you begin. You want 24 frames per second, times by how long you think the end result will last, so lets say 13 seconds, 24 x 13 = 312, next we have to work out at what interval to take photographs, so then we estimate how long the actual event we are covering will last, say 1 hour, thats 3600 seconds, so you divide 3600 by 312, which gives you 11.53, and that is the interval at which you must take a photograph, every 11.53. This should ensure you get a smooth rate on your animation when it is put together .
