Miles Jay of OPC FamilyStyle directed this spot which shows doctors wheeling in an injured child on a gurney into a hospital operating room. As they get closer to the camera and enter from a hallway into the operating room, the space becomes cramped with the doctor and his team members seemingly tall enough to have their heads nearly touching the ceiling.
It’s an illusion that was created in camera to drive home the point that BC Children’s Hospital has run out of space and needs donations to help build a new facility to accommodate a growing population, bigger operating teams, larger equipment and longer hospital stays.
To create the optical illusion, a hallway was built that used forced perspective, an eight-foot ceiling at the far end and a five-foot ceiling in the foreground, to make it appear as though the people were getting bigger as they came towards the camera. The set was built in a large warehouse just outside of Toronto.
Agency was DARE Vancouver.
“Beatles ’64” Documentary Captures Intimate Moments From Landmark U.S. Visit
Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." But how many have seen Paul McCartney during that same U.S. trip feeding seagulls off his hotel balcony?
That moment — as well as George Harrison and John Lennon goofing around by exchanging their jackets — are part of the Disney+ documentary "Beatles '64," an intimate look at the English band's first trip to America that uses rare and newly restored footage. It streams Friday.
"It's so fun to be the fly on the wall in those really intimate moments," says Margaret Bodde, who produced alongside Martin Scorsese. "It's just this incredible gift of time and technology to be able to see it now with the decades of time stripped away so that you really feel like you're there."
"Beatles '64" leans into footage of the 14-day trip filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, who left behind 11 hours of the Fab Four goofing around in New York's Plaza hotel or traveling. It was restored by Park Road Post in New Zealand.
"It's beautiful, although it's black and white and it's not widescreen," says director David Tedeschi. "It's like it was shot yesterday and it captures the youth of the four Beatles and the fans."
The footage is augmented by interviews with the two surviving members of the band and people whose lives were impacted, including some of the women who as teens stood outside their hotel hoping to catch a glimpse of the Beatles.
"It was like a crazy love," fan Vickie Brenna-Costa recalls in the documentary. "I can't really understand it now. But then, it was natural."
The film shows the four heartthrobs flirting and dancing at the Peppermint Lounge disco, Harrison noodling with a Woody Guthrie riff on his guitar... Read More