
BBH London creates another controversial Barnado's campaign. Remember the feeding baby cochroaches, methylated spirits and dirty syringes campaign in 2003?
From The Mirror:
More than 300 viewers have complained about a Barnardo's advert showing a father repeatedly slapping his daughter around the head.
The Advertising Standards Authority expects further complaints and says it is one of the 10 most reported ads this year - despite only being on air for two weeks. The ASA said: "People find the graphic violence very distressing. We have launched a formal investigation, looking into taste and decency guidelines."
I want to know how they made the jeans do that.
Uhm, metal balls.. Uhm.. String..? Uhm.... I have no idea actually.
There's probably 4 or 5 ways to do it, ranging from CGI (i.e. no real jeans were rolling down the street), to some mechanicals - like a semi-rigid framework in the jeans, with an invisible nylon cord, that has a sliding mechanism (when it gets to the bottom, it slides to the top, and repeats) - you pull on it, and the back end raises up, and then, when the back end becomes the front end, the cord shifts to the back, and you repeat the motion. Also, it could be a cylinder, that the jeans are in, and it is hidden by CGI in post.
That flip-flop movement looks to me like they're being pulled by strings top and bottom. As Allan says, it's easy enough to erase the "dirty work" nowadays.