Advertisers are slowly discovering the Interwebs and how to use the poor resolution and "user-generated" orientation of sites like YouTube to dupe people into believing that the impossible happened, that grainy = true, that anyone can leap a car if they're wearing the right shoes. Off all the fake "real" videos that have popped up on the web recently, here are two of the most convincing:
The office-worker rampage choreographed by "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov is probably the best of the fake videos. It's the use of security cameras and cell-phones to shoot the scene, not to mention the professional actors in the office, that convinced a lot of people they were seeing what it's actually like to work at an office in Moscow.
Over the last couple of days, there's been a video getting sent around of a ball girl leaping up a left-field wall to make a catch during a televised minor league baseball game. It seems to get a lot of its viral fuel from the fact that people want to believe a little ball girl could make the catch. The video itself is riddled with signs that it's fake, like the fact that all of the billboards around the field have been blurred or whited out, and there's simply no way that little girl could make a leap like that. But what is it an ad for? Look at what's beside the girl's chair when she sits back down at the end of the video.



