That's not real, this clips fake!
And I'm going to explain why, after the intro.
Welcome back to PK Analysis, the series we analyse viral parkour videos and uncover the
secrets as to how they were created.
In todays episode we're going to look at two different clips focused on underground trains,
the first of which is a frontflip directly infront of a train on the Moscow subway.
I saw this clip a little while back on Youtube in some awful quality, and thats because its
been reuploaded so many times.
You see this guy chilling on the train platform, and then he gets up and the camera zooms out.
He then runs across and does a frontflip right infront of this train as its pulling into
the platform.
The train then goes flying past and then we see the cameramans feet, before the cameraman
and the athlete both get onto the train he's just flipped infront of.
Now this is one of the more convincing ones I've seen, the camera is always moving, the
VFX is actually pretty good and there aren't any obvious hidden cuts.
So I actually had to scour the russian facebook to find the original clip in much higher quality
which made it easier to analyse and see how it was achieved.
So I want to point out what this guy is wearing, look at his shoes, look at his trousers and
his top.
This is going to be really important later.
Now the first thing I want to point out is the camera shake on this clip, it looks just
like fake camera shake that you add to make a clip on a tripod, look like it's handheld.
I explained this in my previous video with the backflip over the car.
You can see that the camera shake has this kind of robotic motion that looks like it's
been added later.
More importantly, if you look at the left side of the train as he does the flip, you
can see this kind of weird pixel glitching.
I've zoomed in here so you can see it more clearly, and I think that this is because
theyve combined two takes together as I explained in my previous video, and here they haven't
quite done the masking right.
Also, look at the shape of this guys head as he's doing the flip.
It doesn't seem very consistent and you can see how his head gets larger and smaller depending
on where in the flip he is.
Finally lets not forget, the train driver shows absolutely no reaction to someone flipping
infront of his train.
This guys probably thinking 'wow another boring day at work, I wish I had some entertaining
parkour videos to watch, if only I was subscribed to AMPISOUND' but thats not the easiest way
to tell this one's fake, because even if they'd done all the VFX perfectly, they made one
massive mistake.
So this guys just done his flip and he's now doing a forward roll on the other platform,
but half a second later if we pause the video as the train goes by and look in the reflection
of the window, you'll see a man leaning here against a wall.
Lets enhance that!
He's wearing the exact same outfit as the guy doing the flip, and thats because its
the same guy.
He's waiting to get on the train because he's already done the front flip previously and
they've combined the two takes together.
Also notice there's a train on the platform behind the guy doing the flip, however if
you look at the trains cabin in front, you'll see the train behind disappears.
So I think we can prove this ones clearly fake, but our next video is one we already
know is fake.
This is the viral video by Storror, where they race the london tube.
Which or the avoidance of doubt, the storrors have already said is fake such as here...
In october we celebrated our eighth year as storror, and thought it would be funny to
fake a london tube race.
We probably wont be doing anything like that again, but looking forward for when someone
does it for real.
And in the video description.
But I had a lot of people asking me how this video was was done, and its all with some
very clever editing.
The premise of the video is simple, theyre going to run from Moortage to Farringdon station
in London.
Now google maps says this is about a mile between the two stations.
It should take a normal person to run, about 10 minutes.
This video is only four and a half minutes long.
So I think its already pretty clear this video was made for entertainment purposes and isn't
actually a real race, and thats because everybody knows that parkour shortcuts don't actually
work in real life.
So the video starts with them explaining the challenge before running out of the train
and starting the race.
Now of course, all the parkour in this video is real, only the race itself was faked.
Now I'm going to fast forward a little bit to save time in this analysis but if you want
to see the video in full, you can go watch it in realtime on storrors channel, there
is a link in the description.
Everything from the train until now is all in one take.
However when they start climbing this pole, is where we see our first hidden cut.
If you look at the building here, and then here as the shot continues, the look completely
changes.
You can see that the balconies in front look similar, but they aren't actually the same.
You can also see in the first shot as he's climbing up the pole, there is nothing on
his left but once he comes over the wall there is a building there instead.
The Barbican by the way, is actually epic.
It's a late 1960 brutalist estate with great parkour spots and really cool architecture,
if you go to London you should go and check it out.
I love these strides across these blocks it looks so good.
Now keep an eye on what happens after they jump over the blue fence.
In the top left corner you'll see there's a fade and this is how they've done another
hidden cut.
Its a really well done cut but equally, straight afterwards if you look on the right of the
screen, you can see the blocks they've just jumped across already.
So they've doubled back on themselves on the route.
They then do this really nice group descent down to street level.
If you've not heard of Storror before, go and subscribe to them because theyre some
of the most consistent parkour youtubers out there.
We then get an update of where they are on the route when Max takes the camera out of
his mouth, but watch what happens just before he puts it back in.
Theyre not even trying to hide it!
There's a cut ON THE SCREEN!
That's a full swipe cut, there's no hiding that.
Like you can see the post boxes and the vans just disappear completely and the location
changes.
There's then a lot more running as they keep going towards farringdon.
Now you can actually do this challenge for real but there's basically no way to get any
parkour in it, its just sprinting.
So its really clever how they created a plausible route in London that actually has enough parkour
in and makes sense geographically.
They finally make it to Farringdon station and jump over the barriers and then there
comes this really cool moment in the video where he does this arm jump to this pillar.
Now this is the other moment in the video comments that everyone points out.
You'll notice in the air that there are two trains in the platform currently when Max
is jumping to the pillar and there is a man directly below Max.
However once his coat obscures the camera and then comes back, you'll see theres only
one train and the man below has disappeared.
Now the reason this had to happen is very simple, they ran all the way from street level
into the train station in one shot and max even did the jump to the pillar in that one
shot.
But Max cant then just land on a random stranger in a London underground tube station, so instead
of having to go all the way back out and refilm the entire thing, they were forced to do a
cut on the pillar instead.
Which is why the train has disappeared because by that point its pulled out of the station.
Now while I was researching this video, I found a fantastic blog post where a London
local actually reconstructed the entire route and worked out what the storrors had to remove
and keep, to fit it into the journey time.
This is because the journey time between the two stations is about three minutes.
But everyone who watches storror knows that parkour is more exciting when there is some
drama.
Even in my own videos, its more fun when you're running from zombies than just running for
the sake of running.
I mean when you're running for a reason, the parkour feels cooler!
I don't think anyone believes Storror have their own police helicopter and it doesnt
take a genius to know that these manpower landings are just a little bit too clean Callum.
So when you see these parkour races, whether its parkour vs the tube, parkour vs a bike,
parkour vs a police dog, late for school, late for work, late for your cats birthday
party.
Bear in mind these elements are simply an excuse for the action to happen.
The original viral tube race is real however using parkour shortcuts...
PARKOUR SHORTCUTS isnt really a thing.
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There aren't that many more fake parkour videos out there so next time im going to try something
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