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Some Beijing Olympic Fireworks Faked
by Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
August 11, 2008

Because one organization is responsible for filming the Olympics — Beijing Olympic Broadcasting — foreign TV networks had no choice but to accept the altered video.

Some of the fireworks seen in television coverage of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics games in Beijing were created digitally, according to a report in The Beijing Times.

Twenty-nine fiery footsteps traced in the air above Bird’s Nest National Stadium were created using real fireworks. But The Telegraph in the U.K. reports that because event organizers feared they would be unable to capture the pyrotechnics live on camera, a digital effects team spent almost a year preparing a computerized version of the 55-second footstep sequence, which was inserted into the live video feed.

“Seeing how it worked out, it was still a bit too bright compared to the actual fireworks,” Gao Xiaolong told The Beijing Times, according to Sky News. “But most of the audience thought it was filmed live — so that was mission accomplished.” Continue reading “Olympics fireworks faked”

Submitted by Marcy LaViollette:

One of the most difficult things for a DIY label to do is to create an engaging music video on a shoestring budget. The Get Out Clause has found a novel way around this problem using a combination of Manchester’s state of the art CCTV system and a little knowledge of the Freedom of Information & Data Protection Act. The Get Out Clause set up at various locations around Manchester city centre where they knew there would be CCTV coverage and performed their new signal Paper. The footage was then requested under the Freedom of Information & Data Protection Acts and a video was cut together in their home studio.

Read more about it on here on Telegraph.co.uk.