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Next week, the band Izabo will represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest, but until then, the promo video of their song ‘Time,’ featuring various sites in Tel Aviv, is getting a lot of attention, due to the special technique in which it was shot.

The video, which shows the group’s faces as paper cut outs on almost every famous corner in Tel Aviv, was not a post-production animation, but actual cut-out faces that were made prior to the shooting. The interesting technique is explained in the “Behind the Scenes” clip that is being posted on YouTube over the weekend.

“I knew i wanted to do somthing with time lapse, shots moving in fast motion over a period of time,” director Eran (Shushu) Spanier tells Abbanibi.com, “but I knew I wanted to do something fresh with it. I thought it would be interesting to combine time lapse with stop motion (making animation by shooting objects in small increments) and together with my two partners- Shirley Eva Bahar & Idan Gilboa we started testing the music video tecnique- taking face cut outs frames made from a shot of a band member singing a line in the song and gluing them in fixed intervals onto interesting objects across the city.”

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