Sony Bravia 4K HDR TV Commercial – behind the scenes
Day three on set
Contents:
- Day one on set
- Day two on set
- Day three on set (you are here)
- Day four on set
3rd day was nothing short of interesting stuff and colours. It was the day when most of the interior balloon exploding and bursting into colourful glitter happened.
But they still had to shoot a last scene of balloons traveling throughout rooms as part of the invasion.
The camera was filming through the open doors, but there it was a huge gap in the pavement. Roman had to do some dangerous dancing, but he was all the time “handled” by another guy.
There was also a drone shoot from the outside and the big mushroom window need to be filled with balloons, so from the outside it looked like this. During the recording of the scene, someone had to move frantically the balloons from the inside 🙂
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- Huge nets were built to hold all the balloons against the huge mushroom window
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- So it looked like this from the outside
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- A drone was filming the window from above
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- And this is how it looked on operator’s check monitors
In the mean time, something beautiful was near to happen inside, in the big hallway.
The room was going to change like this
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But how?, you may ask.
First, an “army” of SFX guys started to fill the balloons with glitter too, not only air and helium.
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- Hand made latex balloons before being filled
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- Various colours, sizes and types of glitter
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- After every balloon was filled with glitter, then it went to the “gas” station to be inflated
Then, another “army” started to manually spread glitter all over the hallway, under strict supervision of Marketa Korinkova, the Production Designer of this TVC and Cristina Barbu, the romanian Art Director.
They both did an amazing job and I felt sad at the end all this colours had to be removed. It would have been a beautiful memory for the Casino to keep.
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- Marketa and her assistant spreading gold glitter over the big staircase
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- Remember? Glitter gets everywhere!
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- Amazing view from up the stairs
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- Cristina got into play when other glitter colour was to be spread
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- Final touches
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- And some exploded balloon remains for added realism
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- And now, Ulf comes into play with glitter-filled balloons to set their positions for the camera
As you imagine, there are some more explosions coming now, since after the set was ready glitter-filled balloons had to explode inside in full colours. After exploding balloons were set-up in their positions by using wires sticked to the pavement, three persons were in charge of blowing them up, using compressed air guns.
Even before this scene, there was a big rule:
Minimal crew on set!
Imagine now, how this rule was re-inforced. I was thrown by the door and I got back by the window 🙂 I got the client on my side who wanted me to capture everything so I’ve convinced Kai Kullack, the 1st Assistant Director that I must be in the room. We were equipped with earplugs and plastic protective glasses.
The show was amazing and I just wanted this scene to be shot multiple times and boy it did!
Glitter everywhere!
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- First, the lateral canons shot their charges
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- Explosions were filmed in slow-motion (960 fps if I remember correctly)
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- Then glitter started to flow from evertwhere
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- A final bang threw more gold glitter from the up-stairs
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- This SFX guy was guilty for what was to come
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- Gold everywhere on the staircase
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- From up the stairs, this is how the setup looked. In the background of the hallway, there were all the cameras and people allowed on set
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- Dead balloons
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- Editing room, where also the shot footage was stored on big Lacie hard-drives. They were analysing, colour correcting and on-set editing the footage for a better idea of the final look of the shot scene.
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- Marketa was in charge to make every take look similar to previous one.
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- A new set-up for a new take
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- Remember? Glitter goes everywhere
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- More decisions taken on set
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- It’s nice to step on gold
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- For this shot I got scolded by the SFX guy, because even on pause, I went in front of the upstairs loaded canon. Safety first! We became friends in the end 🙂
Then we moved with the shooting and explosions up the stairs. A camera was set just under the “fire”
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- The location of the balloons under the stairs chandelier, and how the camera will see this action
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- This guy was covered with a cloth and positioned just “under fire”
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- And he got covered in glitter
Cristina and Marketa called me upstairs during a break in the main scene that was shot at that time to see something they’ve created for a “small” scene: the hand.
The girl with a dog from the outside Casino colourful explosion scene had a part when she had to catch with her free hand the falling glitter. This was shot inside and the pavement need to be replaced with a fake one, full of already fallen glitter. This was the work of art of these two crafty women:
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- Marketa and Cristina, two of the most hard working crew on set
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- The “fake” pavement covered in glitter
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- Detail
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- The hand scene
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- Glitter was purred by who other than Ulf
Last scene of the 3rd day was shot near the big mushroom window, and I’m sure you’ve guessed, other glitter filled balloons explosions.
Sony gear used
All photos in this article were shot with the Sony A7s (read my review here) and various Sony and Sony-Zeiss lenses.
Contents:
- Day one on set
- Day two on set
- Day three on set (you are here)
- Day four on set
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