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Looking at an Etoro you tube video and somehow stumbled across this: seems like its a new genre.

Take 1 hot young woman with big puppy's, Put her in the passenger seat of a hot fast car with 2 or 3 cameras on her and watch her get all excited and expressive....seems to work for me. :D
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This isn't a funny one - but makes cool viewing for anyone that loves water sports....[video]http://www.youtube.com/embed/Cd6C1vIyQ3w[/video]
 
Dumb Ways to Die. Funny ad or serious? Whatever...it's a big hit.

 
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Calliope said:
Dumb Ways to Die. Funny ad or serious? Whatever...it's a big hit.

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I really like this for multiple reasons:
1 - Metro are clever to realize that the people this relates to aren't watching TV - if they are it's whilst using multiple devices. Why not give them something social?

2 - It costs considerably less to do something like this - pay the artist a fee/make the song/freelance a cartoon designer to make a video/seed onto youtube (for free) and you're done. Pure social media leveraging and apparently it's one of the best viral jobs to come out of AU!

3 - They're driving some crazy free advertising for themselves (regardless of safety message). Not that you need to be top of mind when you're the soul suburban train operator in town...but still good to remind people that the train exists an to use it...
 
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A comedy video made by council gritters in Wales about their battle with the snowy elements has become an online hit.

In The Depot features Elvis impersonator Darren Graceland Jones singing about the trials and tribulations of clearing the roads in Torfaen, South Wales, to the tune of Presley's 1969 song In The Ghetto.

Since last Friday, the Welsh valleys have been covered in snow - and on Tuesday the Met Office upgraded the weather warning for Wales after heavy snow brought disruption to roads and nearly 500 schools.

So council bosses in Torfaen decided to come up with a light-hearted yet informative way of offering advice to members of the public - with a helping hand from the King of rock'n'roll.

A snow-covered Pontypool Park, Cwmbran bus station and Torfaen Council depot all feature in the two-and-a-half-minute music video spoof - which has so far proved a hit with YouTube users.

It was filmed in just one hour last Friday, when parts of South Wales were subject to a rare red warning of snow, and saw Elvis impersonator Mr Jones give up his time free of charge.

A Torfaen Council spokesman said: 'We are bombarded with queries about the weather and anything we can do to make the message stick we'll try.

'The reaction we've had to it has been brilliant.'
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http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2013/01/23/Gritters_Elvis_spoof_an_online_hit_838147.html
 
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MrBurns said:
I kinda guessed he couldn't fly.:)
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What I thought suss when looking at the video is that his feet were static relative to each other as he moved through the air. This indicated to me that he was actually standing on a glass sheet or some other fixed object when the footage was taken and then it was superimposed over the background. If he was not standing on a fixed object and truly moving through the air, you would expect some independent movement of his feet relative to each other.

Apart from the video I posted debunking his acts, I have seen similar videos exposing the same sort of tricks. It usually boils down to several videos being sewn together to give the impression that, for instance, looks of astonishment are because of what was just shown immediately before, when in fact they may be because of something completely unrelated.

Many of the bystanders are in on the act and the TV studios that produce this stuff are well aware that it is all a fake, but ratings is what they are after. The same goes for the so called psychics like John Andrews (?) where the live footage is severely edited by removing all his false "readings" so that what is shown gives the impression of a hit rate far in excess of random chance. If you look up James Randi on YouTube, you will find lots of stuff where he exposes these types of frauds.
 
bellenuit said:
What I thought suss when looking at the video is that his feet were static relative to each other as he moved through the air. This indicated to me that he was actually standing on a glass sheet or some other fixed object when the footage was taken and then it was superimposed over the background. If he was not standing on a fixed object and truly moving through the air, you would expect some independent movement of his feet relative to each other.

Apart from the video I posted debunking his acts, I have seen similar videos exposing the same sort of tricks. It usually boils down to several videos being sewn together to give the impression that, for instance, looks of astonishment are because of what was just shown immediately before, when in fact they may be because of something completely unrelated.

Many of the bystanders are in on the act and the TV studios that produce this stuff are well aware that it is all a fake, but ratings is what they are after. The same goes for the so called psychics like John Andrews (?) where the live footage is severely edited by removing all his false "readings" so that what is shown gives the impression of a hit rate far in excess of random chance. If you look up James Randi on YouTube, you will find lots of stuff where he exposes these types of frauds.
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The video tools available today make it easy, for those in the know, to create any illusion.
 

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