There's no way that's real! She's dead if she's just done that for real!
Wait! What's going on here?!
That's INSANE!!
Yes that's right there are fake parkour videos out there on the internet
and in this series I'm going to be breaking down and exposing
some of the worst ones I can find on YouTube.
in today's episode we analyze a French girl as she runs the rooftops of Paris and
it's all completely fake! So just before we get into this I wanted to introduce
myself, my name's Scott and I've shot parkour for over ten years and created
the majority of content on this channel so I'm now going to explain to you over
the next 10 or so minutes how you can tell this video is fake so you know what
to look out for in the future. Let's get into it!
now this video actually starts off like a fairly typical parkour video
there's some POV elements and she's running across the rooftops of Paris
jumping gaps which is very very attention-grabbing and there's a few
little inconsistencies at the very start which I'm going to come back to but the
first shot I really noticed looking out of place is this one that she's leaping
up the building but there's a better example of why this shot is fake in a
minute so we'll get to this later the video then progresses and we see some
various shots on the rooftops this Beehive part is quite cool,
more POV parkour more prancing along the rooftops
we then see a couple more shots including this cheesy dive roll over a
lady in a bikini but the first thing I really want to take a moment to analyze
is this shot in the kitchen as she does a front flip
now you notice as she does this front flip in normal speed it looks okay but
as soon as you slow it down and watch frame by frame you can see there's some
weird little glitches around her feet. Now like what's going on here? Her feet
look like they've been cut out and stuck on from a different take, it's probable
that they film this flip somewhere else and they've stuck the feet on over the
top of a different flip equally if you look at this white square in the roof
they don't line up so clearly they've done something to make this flip look
different and it looks a bit fake, but I want to get to the worst stuff in the
second half of this video so bear with me. She grabs the salmon bread, she jumps
out the window and then she carries on doing parkour through the rooftops she
carries on running and then suddenly she jumps off this massive building and this
shots really crazy so let's break down and analyze the jump. So take a look!
She's just jumped off this, but where's she landing? Is she landing here? Is she
learning there? Is she learning here? There? Who knows! I can't tell where she's
going to and if you take a look at it you can tell that her jump arc itself
looks a bit strange and what I know they've done with this shot is they've
made her jump somewhere else and they've stuck it onto this shot here instead
over a blank plate and you can tell because the actual jump arc is wrong!
Most people in parkour jump up and forwards and then start to fall. Her one,
she jumps forwards and falls and then moves forwards again which is very
strange it's a very easy way to tell this shot is fake
so let's progress with the video some more and as I'm watching this video I'm
sitting here thinking hang on these are some really
veiny hands like these are proper manly hands and then it dawned on me
Well, it's a man in a dress isn't it! So I looked into the video some more I
searched out the production company and stuff and actually the choreography for
this video was done by Simon Nogueria from the French free-run family so I got in
touch with some of the French Freerun family and they confirmed that
actually all the shots in this video are Simon Nogueria wearing a dress with nice
nail polish and this does my nut because there are female parkour
athletes out there who are very talented that can do this level of parkour and
more that they could have hired but instead they hired a man and dressed him
up as a woman and I just don't think that's ok because there's plenty of very
talented female athletes that can do this work so hire them! Anyway let's move
on because there's even crazier stuff to come. Now this shot with the Eiffel Tower
in the background is a much better example of how they've actually faked
putting the girl running on buildings in general. They didn't even get her onto
this building they just faked it completely and it's very easy to tell so
if you look at the size of the windows during the zoom out and let's measure
her size as well and now we do the zoom in you'll notice that her body size
doesn't change at all but the windows double in size so clearly they've just
filmed her running somewhere else and they've cut her out and they've put her
over the top of a different shot again. Which is just so cheap! Like go and find
a location or do it properly or at least get your scaling right on your visual
effects this one's easy and that's exactly how they did the shot the first
part of the video is well they've clearly had her running along the ground
and they've tilted that shot and made her run up a building instead but that's
not all I really want to get on to the very very fakest parts of this video
because they are amazing so let's go. Look at this dive roll! There's no way
that's real she's dead if she's just done that for real there's no chance if
she's just dropped off that she's dead no way that's real. Now let's play her
back in slow motion. First things first you'll notice that
she now has a watch on her left hand for some reason. Don't know where that's come
from but as she drops off this balcony she falls down about four
storeys which is definitely not humanly possible before anyone
it is in the comments and then she's going down to roll now watch how she's
rolling watch the shoulders she's going down to roll on what you'll notice is
her right hand is above her left hand this implies that she will be rolling
over her right shoulder as is the case in parkour, whichever hand is first he's
the one you're gonna roll over that shoulder. So she's rolling over her right
shoulder however upon the actual roll she comes out on her left shoulder
you'll also notice her watch is gone. So obviously the actual editor of this
video has no idea how to even cut parkour correctly because he can't even
match which way the hands supposed to go on a roll and this is the end of the
video where she runs down the corner and she grabs her beauty box this was
actually an advert for a beauty box that came out a couple of years ago and when
it came out it was very viral it got a Vimeo staff pick and they went absolutely
everywhere and it really pains me because it's one of the more famous
videos with females doing parkour in and it's just completely fake and there's a
couple of other things that I've noticed so check this out this one is incredible
so let's go back to the kitchen. Now in the kitchen after she grabs the salmon
bread she jumps out a window and this shot looks very strange and I've saved
it because it's the fakest one there is and I think it's absolutely amazing that
they had the cheek to do this in a video. Watch how she jumps out the window and
then lands on the roof now as she's jumping you see there's a strange shadow
on the ground and I try, I sat here and I thought, what is that?
What is that shadow?
And that's when I realized what it is! They've tied a GoPro to a piece of
string and they've put little cardboard shark fins on it so it flies
straight and they've thrown it out of a window to fake roof gaps. How mad is that!
They didn't even do the shot for real this is a GoPro on some string
I actually can't believe they've had the cheek to do this especially knowing that
they actually had a parkour athlete on set doing the POV action they could have
just used his content instead but they faked it why would they do that
so I really wanted to try making my own GoPro shark fin setup so I grabbed a box
of chicken soup and cut out some shark fins and stuck them onto a GoPro myself
and this is kind of how it turned out anyway not bad but you know quite quick
I threw it across the street a couple times to make some test footage and
be honest it looks exactly like the video! Anyway back to the analysis
Now watch closely here you'll see how the GoPro gets thrown out of the window
and bounces off the floor before they cut back to her holding her salmon bread
the actual editing is just so bad here and then I thought well maybe this is
how they've done the other shots in the video so when we rewind back to the
start of the video and you look at her doing this roof gap here it's the same
thing her arms disappear the camera flies through the air in a strange way
and then she lands while sitting down again and this is also how they've done
the dive roll in the courtyard and there's a couple of other little things
in this video that I noticed that were really funny so if you watch when she
runs through the Beehive here you'll notice that the poor model, bless her
clearly has no parkour ability and that's fine nearly clips her foot and
nearly dies on this one shot here. Look how she, oh dear, like once
again if they'd have hired an actual female parkour athlete they could have had
the girl not only doing the parkour but actually doing the running as well
and she wouldn't have almost killed herself on a small little bit of rooftop
like this that she clearly shouldn't be running on and one other thing I noticed
is they've actually made a few mistakes production-wise if you look on this shot
here you can see a man on the roof who's clearly part of the production team and
there you have it that is one of the fakest parkour videos on the Internet
now in the next episode I'm going to be looking at and reviewing a bunch of
people doing flips off of buildings in front of trains and in front of cars and
some of these ones are just as crazy as this video you've just watched if you've
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watching and I hope to see you the next one! One more thing if you know of any
fake parkour videos or anything you think might be fake but you're not quite
sure please send me an email at scott at ampisound along with a couple of links
and I'll take a look for you and if it is fake and I can prove it I'll feature
it in this series. Thanks guys!