Oh, What A Circus #1
6:43pm Bang! All of a sudden it had started!
Yellow paint exploding from the ground upwards
Canon EOS 350D, EF-S 18-55 USM @ 30 | ISO 400 | Av | 1/400s f9.0
Meeting a suspended barrel which also explodes yellow
Canon EOS 350D, EF-S 18-55 USM @ 30 | ISO 400 | Av | 1/500s f9.0
Now the orange paint explodes
Canon EOS 350D, EF-S 18-55 USM @ 30 | ISO 400 | Av | 1/500s f9.0
Finally, it all dies down
Canon EOS 350D, EF-S 18-55 USM @ 30 | ISO 400 | Av | 1/400s f9.0
And, in about eight seconds, it was all over!
Eh? Was that it? So much for all the blue buckets I can see on the end of the tower block exploding. Harrumph!
Well, if that’s the excitement over for today, let’s wander back in the general direction of the car and see if I can get any other photos on the way… Perhaps I’ll spot Carol – if she’s still here…
very good pics, i like the way u got the shot of the man
Comment by karl — Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Great pics – glad I found your site. I read somewhere that this was the most expensive TV commercial ever made although I believe more money was spent on relocating families during filming and repairing the damage afterwards than making the actual film. The total bill was around £16m ($32m). Scott
Comment by Scott — Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Hi Scott – Thanks for your comments. As I understood it, no families were relocated. The two blocks which were “painted” were already empty and each has now been demolished, so presumably they didn’t require cleaning. Adjacent residences were covered in white netting (as can be seen in several of my shots) to protect them from the worst of any drifting paint spray. It was reported that a team of about sixty people worked for five days to clean up the mess left from the water-based paint. Additionally, the producers laid on several events for the residents to make up for the inconvenience. I recall hearing of a party in the local community centre and a trip to the seaside. I can’t see any of that amounting to a significant amount of the budget.
While it’s not too obvious, there was some post production CGI carried out – I’m sure the cost of that would have exceeded the cleaning costs, etc.
I don’t recall ever hearing a figure, but £16m does seem pretty high…
Comment by Gary — Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 2:18 pm