Tilt shift photography is a neat effect that changes the perspective and focus of the shot and makes it somehow look like close ups of miniatures. (There's a way you can fake it in Photoshop that is almost as good, if the composition of the shot is right.)

Anyway, this is a really neat video that uses the technique, combined with animated sequences, to make a really neat effect.

Helpless from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

(via @yushkalia)