Anti Social Behaviour Frozen in time TV ad

TV commercial produced for Greater Manchester Police, Produced and Directed by Matt Barraclough, DP and FX by Tim Follin, Steadicam by Ben Gordon, Make up Leanne Cable, Music by Paul Davies

Consequences of ani social behaviour, frozen in time.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• asbo
• ani
• social
• behaviour
• police
• arrest
• drunk
• kids
• teenagers
• teens
• fight
• violence
• sex
• drugs
• music
• commercial
• ad
• advert
• tv
• film
• animation
• bike
• shout
• water
• wet
• fire
• burn
• house

[impy1980]

Firstly brilliant advert, one question, aside from the FX of fire, water, other liquids, how was it fimed? Was it done with multiple stills cameras or was it filmed with a video camera and actors told to keep very still, I'm wondering coz there is no movement at all if it was video, but again I question the stills approach due to the camera moving forward rather than from side to side. Or I've just thought of a 3rd option, are the people still photos added to the footage?

Very impressive piece!

[darwinmatt]

@impy1980 Thanks fpr your comment. Glad you like it. I don't know if we should reveal our secret.....mmmmm....well the answer is either your option 1 or 2.

[jeszersz]

@impy1980 we did this in drama is multiple cameras from each angle x

[TheZa1994]

My favorite part was seeing that dude spit out beer.

[rollmodelesq]

@JediTridae

Thanks for the info. Its much appreciated.

Best of luck with the project :)

[JediTridae]

@rollmodelesq

I'm working on a similar project at the moment. It's a great illusion. The shoot is done with the actor just standing still in place and then the extra effects are added in post like the smoke and fire and some of the beer splashes. A nice touch is the CG water in the pool that actually changes reflection with the camera move. I thought that was a nice touch.

[britishvaluesforever]

There was a mini riot down my parents road about 30 youths fighting in the street after a party , My parents phoned the police a number of times but all the police kept saying was do the have knives . When the youths moved on the police turned up and said what happened. When the police left some of youths come back and keyed every car in the street . I say bring back national service . Vote BNP they would sort this.

[rollmodelesq]

Hi,

Does anyone know how they achieved this in post?

I did wonder if the people were just stood extremely still but when I saw the shots of the water and fire I started to question it.

Many thanks in advance,

David