Portrait of Lotte

Portrait of Lotte is a time-lapse viral video involving a girl growing from a newborn in 1999 into a teenager. It was first posted by filmmaker Frans Hofmeester from Utrecht, Netherlands on 17 April 2012.[1][2][3][4]

It has reached widespread and the video was used on a Sprint commercial.[5]

Vince

After 12 years of recording Lotte, Hoffmeester started recording videos of his son, Vince.[6][7]

He described Lotte's video as being more "sweet" and Vince's as more "playful".

Background

Hoffmeester recorded 15 second videos every week of his daughter, Lotte, from a newborn to a teenager and compiled them together to make a time-lapse video. He calls it "the ultimate coming of age time-lapse". He has done several videos of her being recorded to different ages, such as 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 years old.[8][9]

Hofmeester explains, "She was changing at such a rapid pace, that I felt the need to document the way she looked, to keep my memories intact".[10]

Commenting on the occasions he found it difficult to get the footage required, he said, "Sometimes they did not feel like it. Then I said, 'Just one minute. Tell me about your ball game, did you win?' That way I stalled them so I could complete the shot".[3]

References

  1. ^ Knowles, Melissa (23 April 2012). "Amazing Time-Lapse Video Shows Girl Grow From Baby To Pre-Teen". Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Portrait of Lotte: Dad shares time lapse video of daughter over 18 years". honey.nine.com.au. 31 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b Jivanda, Tomas (13 April 2014). "Portrait of Lotte: Father's timelapse video shows daughter growing up". The Independent. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  4. ^ Rochman, Bonnie (26 April 2012). "Childhood in Two Minutes: Why a Dutch Dad's Time-Lapse Video of His Kids Went Viral". Time – via healthland.time.com.
  5. ^ "Father takes his daughter's photo every week for 18 years as she grows up". December 18, 2017.
  6. ^ Blazenhoff, Rusty (2 November 2017). "Dad shares time-lapse of his daughter from birth to age 18". Boing Boing.
  7. ^ Hofmeester, Frans (April 26, 2012). "Why I've made public the films of my kids growing up | Frans Hofmeester". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  8. ^ Bologna, Caroline (28 October 2015). "Time-Lapse Video Shows Just How Quickly Kids Grow Up". HuffPost. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  9. ^ "WATCH: Dad Shares Incredible Time-Lapse Video of Daughter from Birth to Age 14".
  10. ^ "Loving Dad Makes Time-Lapse of Daughter Growing Up From 0 to 18 Years Old". November 7, 2017.


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