Sony Bravia Commercial
Sunday, July 30th, 2006Remember that wonderful 2005 ad for Sony’s Bravia LCD display featuring 250,000 brightly-colored superballs bouncing through the streets of San Francisco? A follow-up Bravia commercial is in the works, judging from these citizen generated video clips take in Glasgow:
From clyderidesagain at YouTube (via Boing Boing–see QT version here):
And, from JasperNewton1986 at YouTube (sorry it’s sideways, but I didn’t take it):
Here is the original Sony Bravia commercial, with cinematography by Danish diretor Nicolai Fuglsig and set to the song Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez. (Download the high-def QT version.):
Here’s a seven minute "Making Of" the Bravia commercial I found at YouTube:
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and as such, the original Sony Bravia commercial has reached some degree of pop culture prestige, as measured by it’s imitators. Here’s a great Battlefield 2 video game mashup featuring that same Heartbeats song but this time, set to the visual of bouncing soldiers (found at YouTube):
Finally, the following parody of the Bravia ad ran this year for the soft drink Tango Clear: