SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Over a millon viewers watched this video within four days of it going online.
Matt Smith, the co-founder of ad agency The Viral Factory said: The people on camera are real farmers and they were really controlling the sheepdogs. Rather than trying to fake it all we did it for real. The sheep herding bit is straight up – no trickery but there is a fair amount of computer trickery and post production work. We thought the Mona Lisa was the big wink to people – once they saw that we thought they would realise it was not all real. But we have been quite surprised that there is still a debate about whether it is all real and people have been coming up with various theories.
Follow the action as they play a game of Pong, create sheep fireworks and the Mona Lisa.
The main problem on the shoot was not herding the sheep, but getting enough of them because it was lambing season and they could not disturb or stress the sheep that were lambing.
A flock of sheep, a few good men, innumeral LEDs and lots of imagination.
To promote its new range of TVs, Samsung recruited Welsh national sheep herding champion Gerry Lewis and a team of Welsh sheep herders to guide flocks of in imaginitive ways.Over a millon viewers watched this video within four days of it going online.
Matt Smith, the co-founder of ad agency The Viral Factory said: The people on camera are real farmers and they were really controlling the sheepdogs. Rather than trying to fake it all we did it for real. The sheep herding bit is straight up – no trickery but there is a fair amount of computer trickery and post production work. We thought the Mona Lisa was the big wink to people – once they saw that we thought they would realise it was not all real. But we have been quite surprised that there is still a debate about whether it is all real and people have been coming up with various theories.
Follow the action as they play a game of Pong, create sheep fireworks and the Mona Lisa.
The main problem on the shoot was not herding the sheep, but getting enough of them because it was lambing season and they could not disturb or stress the sheep that were lambing.
Different sheep were used over the two day shoot so the sheep were not tired out.
