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by **daleshrimpton** » Aug 24th, '09, 19:29

have you seen the new o2 cash manager card adverts?they are very good. i just have a feeling people will assume its camera tricks

(who is in it, and what was the order of effects during the shoot, because some of it appears to be backwards.)

by **Lee Smith** » Aug 24th, '09, 19:37

Have you seen them both?

There may be more? but i saw one with a guy and one with a girl.

They are very good.

by **daleshrimpton** » Aug 24th, '09, 20:05

ive just seen the one with the guy. the bit with the tee shirt....that looks almost to good to be true, but i am sure its kosher.

by **Lee Smith** » Aug 24th, '09, 20:29

Found one of them trying to find the other.

http://www.vccp.com/work/o2/o2-money

Does look to good to be true. wonder if he did it first take. lol.

by **daleshrimpton** » Aug 24th, '09, 20:36

its also streaming ib hd on my twitpic.

http://twitpic.com/f4ogl

by **Lee Smith** » Aug 24th, '09, 21:09

After watching again i spotted some edits in there. Most looked real tho.

by **Part-Timer** » Aug 24th, '09, 21:11

There's at least one cut, which was glaringly obvious when I saw it just now. I think it is a mix of 'real' magic (the first couple of changes look like sleight of hand with possibly a slight bit of gimmicking) and editing.

by **Lee Smith** » Aug 24th, '09, 21:18

Part-Timer wrote:There's at least one cut, which was glaringly obvious when I saw it just now. I think it is a mix of 'real' magic (the first couple of changes look like sleight of hand with possibly a slight bit of gimmicking) and editing.

The obvious one being around the t shirt change im guessing?

by **daleshrimpton** » Aug 24th, '09, 21:31

ah, but if they filmed it against a green screen, all the ditches and loads could of been done in one.
you have unseen helpers taking things away.
and since the shirt was produced without a wrinkle, i do wonder if its been shown backwards.

by **Grimshaw** » Aug 24th, '09, 22:07

I think people on the street would probably just dismiss it as special effects anyway, so if any of it is decent sleight of hand, it was probably a waste of time. :twisted:

by **IAIN** » Aug 24th, '09, 23:50

to be honest, i think there were a couple of edits...and if you've got helpers, then its not really "doing it for real" in a sleight of hand way...

it looks good though, and a lot more enjoyable than most ads...

by **naquada** » Aug 25th, '09, 23:56

It was dynamo who worked on some of the magic bits for the ad also it was story-boarded by Scott Penrose MIMC and director Rupert Jones.

there at least two ads in the campaign

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MRi7KNBALY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU5nc7y_ZYM

the two people in the adverts are The Magic Circle member Brendan Patricks, and Billy Kidd (who was trained by world famous street magician - gazzo )

by **Ronster** » Aug 26th, '09, 23:37

First time Ive seen these adverts, guessing most folks who watch it wont even think of magic whilst they watch

by **russpie** » Aug 27th, '09, 08:23

This was the guy who was the wedding magician in Gavin & Stacey if I remember correctly.

by **Robbie** » Aug 27th, '09, 10:01

I vaguely saw the one with the guy last night, out of the corner of my eye. To be honest, I didn't think "magic", but then I wasn't paying much attention.

The only bit I really saw was him waving an O2 card around, so since I have no interest in O2 I went back to what I was doing. Which shows the company has a flaw somewhere in their ad strategy -- they can't engage the interest of a non-customer who is strongly interested in advertising.

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