There is this incredible commercial on TV where they throw 250.000 multi-coloured bouncing balls down some streets in San Francisco. The combination of the music and video is just perfect.
I had seen the commercial once or twice before I encountered this post on Veerle's blog. I read the article and pointed out the pictures on Flickr, the "Behind the scenes" movie and the "Colour like.no.other" website.
In this age of CGI manipulated photo's and videos this is a peace of true craftmanship. No CGI just plain old camerawork."Every single frame was shot over two days - with the main sequence involving a 23-man camera crew and only one chance to get it right."
Today I had a discussion about how they made this commercial with Alex Thissen. He thinks it's computer manipulated while I'm still convinced that it is the "real thing" and that it is not manipulated.
The text on the website clearly incidates that it was done without computer graphics. So it comes down to the question do we believe them?
I'm not going to list the pro- and contra arguments, it might push you in a direction. Just watch the commercial and decide for yourself.
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