{"id":923,"date":"2009-04-24T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2009-04-24T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T19:32:49","slug":"clowning-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/clowning-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Clowning Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"460\" height=\"376\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lQ3D4CqHbJM&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lQ3D4CqHbJM&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a commercial (for Phillips TVs), yes, but a brilliant one.\u00a0 Adam Berg, through some amazing combination of CGI and live-action filming (and maybe some still photography?) basically constructed an uninterrupted tracking shot to rival the one at the beginning of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yg8MqjoFvy4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Touch of Evil<\/em><\/a> (rival, perhaps, but not beat &#8212; considering that shot was a minute longer and was shot on film with no digital trickery).<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how Berg did it, but it&#8217;s pretty cool.\u00a0 And like the opening of <em>Touch<\/em>, it&#8217;s a self-contained story.\u00a0 I like it.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veryshortlist.com\/vsl\/daily.cfm\/review\/1174\/Web_video\/philips-carousel-adam-berg\/?vp\" target=\"_blank\">VSL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out: It&#8217;s a commercial (for Phillips TVs), yes, but a brilliant one.\u00a0 Adam Berg, through some amazing combination of CGI and live-action filming (and maybe some still photography?) basically constructed an uninterrupted tracking shot to rival the one at the beginning of Touch of Evil (rival, perhaps, but not beat &#8212; considering that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,368],"tags":[113,380,14],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-oooooh-pretty","tag-commercials","tag-tracking-shot","tag-vsl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}