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Cute, but it doesn’t beat this guy
practice and setup…
the camera op has had a few too many.
I think this is a fake. It looks pretty apparent that he performed a little slight of hand and did not even have a quarter in his right hand for the last throw. You can see he held the quarter in his left hand, pretended to take it into his right, then slipped the quarter s(till in his left hand) under the table.
Simple slight of hand with a little creative post editing. I bet the ice cubes fall with the use of a thread or something and the quarter is added with some 3D modeling.
I don’t think anyone could ever perform this on the second try. Maybe one in a million shot. Not plausible. I think it is a blatant fake.
I can’t stand horrible, hand-held, zoom in, zoom out, pan around, semi-out of focus videos like this. I couldn’t even tell what was happening.
It’s an add. And a bad one at that.
Um, an “add”? Is that a video editing term? Please clue me in.
“add” meaning “ad” meaning advertisement.
Let me clue u in in2 the new lingo “Mark T.” Ever heard of Guerilla Advertising? It’s an Ad added = Add.
😉 and all that jazz
My thoughts on its’ falseness – The ice cubes are fake, the coin/s are fake, the top of the bottle is a composite until he lifts it up to pour out at the end. The bottle cap is also fake. After the women on the couch wave to the camera there is a cut as a man walks in front of them. This was probably necessary as the first man who flips a coin into his glass doesn’t really have a physical coin either and whoever edited the video chose the best takes to maintain a party atmosphere within the video. The bottle neck has noticible shifting in relation to the rest of the bottle as it’s picked up at the end. And I cant be sureif I see this right but, as the coin bounces off the last ‘ice cube’ it bounces a second time on the top of the cube while it’s in motion. Rather well choreographed on the part of the coin I’d say.
Watch it as if it were directed as a viral commercial and it takes on new meaning.
– Picky Rant Out
All these guys could be playing better games in Iraq
The zoom in-out looked staged, an attempt to make the video look more dramatic and real, which leads me to think that it is fake. Not sure how though.
Whats up with all of the guys, even in the other room wearing black? Is this a terrorist bootcamp after party?
When one is drinking, nothing surprises me.
#12 – Undissembled – an attempt to make the video look more dramatic and real, which leads me to think that it is fake. Not sure how though.
This video is most likely from Sweden or Finland… but why the heck are they speaking English most of the time? Another thing… how about the physics? Is there enough energy in a moving coin to knock down not only one, but three ice cubes? Especially when the ice cubes are in such stable positions…
#5, Hopper,
Thanks. I was thinking I must be a dork or something. I couldn’t follow this either.
I thought Ted Bundy was dead?
I’m disappointed. I was sure he was aiming for blonde’s cleavage. That would have been a better trick.
Fake Fake Fake
This clip oozes fakeness.
1. First of all, the shaky camcorder camera work was overdone. The cameraman was trying too hard at imitating it.
2. The girls’ actions/reactions look unnatural. They are trying too hard to do the drunk college girl act. Even the chicks in Girls Gone Wild can do better.
3. And finally, who uses the word “sweet” anymore?
#5 #15
Agreed, methinks the director was the same goof who filmed the second Bourne movie.
Shaking the camera in no way shape or form adds to the drama/realism as far as I’m concerned. All it does is add an annoyance factor.