nah that's not real! rewind it a little bit!
look at the back of the car! all right, check this one out
can you believe how close he was to that car?! Because i can't!
and the reason why is that we actually created this clip so we can prove how
easy it is to make fake clips like this and in this video i'm going to show you
what to look for so you don't get tricked as well!
hello fellow pk analysts and today we're going to be exposing a bunch of fake
flips on the edges of buildings over formula-1 cars and normal cars
now before i go into the analysis i do need to emphasize don't
go and do flips on the edge of buildings and over cars it's really really
dangerous! don't go and do it! but that being said
there are professional stuntmen that have done this trick
successfully. Generally it's a forward flip over a very low car like a supercar
or some Lamborghini or something and that's the only safe way that
professionals have done this trick. Now this stunt has gone wrong in the
past as well so i can't stress enough how important it is
not to go and attempt this. Now let's get into the analysis!
Now the first one i want to look at is actually the first ever fake parkour
clip i ever saw, and was the inspiration for this series
this is a guy from russia called edin13 and in this clip he does a cork on the
edge of a building. Now when this clip came out i saw it on my
phone as did everyone else in the parkour community
and people were resharing it and it was very very popular
but actually if you take it onto a computer and look on a slightly bigger
screen, you start realizing that it doesn't look
right at all! There's these strange jagged lines around his body when he's
flipping and then if you look at it frame by frame, you see as he's doing the
cork, if you look at his right hand, it disappears halfway through the flip!
In this frame it's fine and then there's two frames with a strange line in the
middle. Now all of these videos are achieved
using the same trick which i'm going to explain in a moment,
but first i want to give you some more examples to show you how versatile this
trick is. So i looked more along Edin's profile
and to turn up the russian levels, the next one
is another fake flip on the edge of a building! In this one he does a front
flip on a snowy ledge and then fires a gun!
this guy's *subscribe* nuts! And this guy's done even more fake
videos, so in this one here's a round off arabian over a car and this clip is
weird man. Now if you watch when the car drives underneath him you'll notice that
the tires leave these big brown water marks on the floor.
Now those are the kind of water marks that come from driving a car multiple
times through a puddle and this leads me on to how these videos
are made. They're all done by filming two separate events and then combining them
together so they both happen at the same time.
The flip was filmed on dry ground but the car was driven at least twice
through the puddle because we can see the water marks already on the floor
during this shot from inside the car. So when they combined the dry ground
flip with the wet ground car they had to add in
all the water marks which built up, which is why they look so big in the final shot!
You can see he's done it again here with
another round of arabian over a bentley this is also fake.
and the worst thing is it's really simple to create these clips for yourself
but the easiest way to explain is with an example, so i asked AMPISOUND athlete
Connor Walker, to go out and get some footage for us
tell us the plan connor!
Right so what i'm going to do is, do a
flip in the road there and i'm going to take my car and drive
it back the other way down the road
underneath where i did the flip, and then Scott's going to put it
together afterwards.
So connor did a backflip in the road as high as he could
he then got in his own car and drove the other way back down the same road
I then took this one long clip into after effects, halved the opacity and split
it into two, so i could line up so that the flip and
the car driving, happened at the same time.
I then selected just the clip with the car in and used a tool called 'roto brush'
which lets you choose which parts of a video to keep visible
and which parts to turn invisible. So i then just painted away everything but
the car and its shadow. It's important to keep the shadows so things look real.
The rotobrush tool does most of the work for you, but as you go frame by frame you
sometimes have to remove or add extra bits where it can't guess exactly what
you want to keep. This left me with just the car on its
own, which i then added on top of the clip with the flipping,
Finally i used the curves tool to adjust the clips brightness and make it match
better to the background. It looks like this. Now the original
video was shot with an iphone leaning against connor's backpack on the floor
but to make it look more authentic I added some camera shake so it looks
like someone is holding the phone filming.
Finally because Connor filmed this on his own I took the audio from a recent clip
I filmed of Shane
and put it over the car flip so there's a reaction of someone filming here's the
final clip
I then uploaded this to instagram to see if people would believe it was real
and they did! However a lot of you were very smart and realized that of course i
faked this as well. By the way if you're not following
AMPISOUND on instagram go and do it now because some of the stuff i've been
putting up there recently is amazing. So now you know how most of these clips
are achieved you wouldn't believe how badly people mess it up still/
This next clip is of Damien Walters doing a backflip over a formula one car.
When this clip came out it was very popular which is crazy because there's
like three minutes of these beautiful slow motion
shots and all this build up and then talking about how difficult this stunt
is going to be, but when the car actually drives down
the road with Damien looking incredibly concerned
and Damien does the backflip you realize that they've messed up the vfx anyway!
Watch the spoiler of the car as it goes underneath Damien. It completely
disappears here, and here! They must have spent thousands
of pounds hiring out this race track for this video
and they didn't spend the money on the vfx to make it look right.
Now I do believe the shot from the side is actually real and I think that this
has been achieved with the car going slightly further back than Damien was,
especially at the speed the car is driving and here's why i think that's
the case. This last shot i think is actually real
but there's a catch! If you draw a line at the side of Damien
and then move the car so it's in the same place he would be
I don't think the car would ever actually have hit Damien. I think Damien
did a backflip incredibly close to a speeding formula one car, but not
actually underneath a speeding formula one car.
And i think the fact that this camera angle is so bad confirms that!
Considering how well filmed all the prep shots were, this is a terrible camera
angle. But that's not all! They actually uploaded a version of this
stunt in 360 as well. We know there was a 360 camera on this
car because we see it in this shot previously.
Now when you download 360 footage from youtube it comes in this strange format
but you can still use it to analyze the video quite easily.
Now while we're looking at this 360 shot i just want to point out how reflective
the hood of this car is. Notice how it's perfectly reflecting the
banner above it. The car then drives directly under Damien as he does the
back flip, but if we just pause when Damien is
above the hood of the car, you'll notice there's no reflection. We can actually
put the banner here and you can see, when the banner is in the same place, the
banner reflects perfectly! But when Damien is there, there's no
reflection of Damien in the hood of the car at all.
Also this part doesn't look anything like a person, this looks like a blob
with an egg on the end! Equally we can tell this 360 clip is
from an entirely different time of day because it's blue skies and sunny,
whereas the actual flip damien did was filmed in the evening.
So you're saying that damien did this stunt again earlier in the day
just for the 360 version, and they didn't film it on a regular camera as well?
Nah it's just fake! So don't believe it when you see someone doing a flip over a
car or on the edge of a building. Sometimes people make these clips in a
way that's obviously fake as part of a joke but what's dangerous is when you
can't tell. Now moving forwards i've had loads of
emails from you about a certain STORROR video
and next episode i'm going to analyze it, so make sure you subscribe and smash the
bell like this cat is, so you don't miss the video.
if you have any fake or sketchy parkour videos that you want me to check out
send me an email at scott@ampisound.com Did you believe any of these videos were real?
Did you know they were fake? Leave a comment and tell me what you thought.
Thank you for watching the video and i'll see you in the next one!