Carousel is a Dark Knight-inspired short film created to celebrate the impending arrival of the Philips Cinema 21:9 LCD, the world’s first cinema proportioned television screen.
Coincidentally 2 minutes and 19 seconds long, Carousel shows an epic cops-and-robbers shootout that is frozen in time. As the ad plays out, the camera moves through the frozen scene revealing different parts of the story. Check it out.
Carousel was created by Stink Digital and directed by Adam Berg who conceived it to work as an endless loop. It’s better viewed on the Philips Carousel microsite.
Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to spin through the films single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot.
[via Neatorama]
7 replies on “Carousel: A Frozen Cops n’ Robbers Shootout”
Now that is one hell of a bizarre, yet awesome way of telling a story. Brilliant!
Yea and how awesome does that LCD look? It’d look fantastic in your lounge. Time to mortgage those kids… :devil:
Brilliant cinematography and story-line. Did you check out the Ambilight on their microsite – damn that looks nice!
I did see the Ambilight – very cool indeed. Not so nice is the price – starting from GBP 3000.00!
Source: http://www.hdtvlounge.net/philips/cinema-219/
You know in GBP terms that doesn’t sound so bad – until you do the conversion *sigh*
And don’t forget to add the proudly South African markup on top of that conversion ;-)
[…] There’s a microsite too if you’d like to see what the movie looks like on a 21:9 Philips television with Ambilight technology enabled. Or you can just view the briliant short-film in the embedded video below. Enjoy, I know I did – and now I want one too! [via Onelargeprawn] […]