Consumers are constantly surrounded by ads – from the moment they wake and check WeChat to the ads on the subway. It is seemingly impossible to escape the world of advertising. In this barrage of ad overstimulation, it is easy take for granted the work that goes into even the seemingly simplest of ads. Stride Rock’s summer commercial created by Saatchi & Saatchi, Greater China, is one of those ads that everyone has grown accustomed to on the Shanghai subway as they rush to their next meeting. But if you slow down a minute, you might just wonder how they actually got that fruit to explode, or capture so perfectly that lace of liquid.
消费者无时无刻不被广告包围着，从早上睁开眼那一刻，刷微信，坐地铁，都少不了广告。似乎我们已经无法逃离充满广告的世界。在广告的过度刺激中，我们似乎都忽略了广告制作所投入的心血，但其实最简单的广告也是要花费心思的。炫迈口香糖夏季广告由盛世长城大中华区打造，跟其他很多广告一样，它对于每天早上匆忙挤地铁赶会场的人们来说早习以为常。但如果能稍稍停下脚步，就会去想广告里的水果究竟是怎么爆炸的，周围那一层液体又为何捕捉地如此完美。
Saatchi & Saatchi’s production team and Shanghai production company Keypoint Productions opened up to SHP+ to share a few tricks of the trade, explaining just how those slow motion liquid shots were captured and how a whole city can explode with fruit.
盛世长城制作团队携手来上海制作公司Keypoint Productions，跟SHP+分享了其中的小秘密 — 液体慢镜头是如何捕捉到的，整个城市如何上演水果大爆炸。
Behind the scenes of real exploding fruit
幕后场景，真实的水果大爆炸画面
Keypoint Productions shared, “To prepare, we needed a lot of reference materials, and after repeated rounds of discussions, we finally chose to capture the fruit explosion in real-time, with three-dimensional CG added in during the post-production process.”
Keypoint Productions表示，“在做准备的时候，需要很多参考资料，不断重复了很多轮讨论，最终我们决定要实时捕捉水果爆炸画面，后期再加上三维CG效果。”
For the fruit explosions that appear as celebrity William Chan walks down the street, these were done in real-time with special cameras, equipment, and props. Director Binn KT with the art and props team in Thailand repeatedly tested and shot the fruit with the aid of explosive air bombs that launched the fruit 1.8 meters into the air.
陈伟霆沿街行走出现的水果大爆炸，都是用特定摄像头、设备和道具实时捕捉的。Binn KT导演跟泰国的艺术设计、道具团队反复试验，最后借助航空爆破炸弹把水果弹到1.8米高，捕捉到了想要的画面。
Director’s notes on fruit explosion tests
导演在进行水果爆炸试验时留下的记录
At the same time, individual fruit explosions had to be photographed to ensure the final balance of lighting, texture, and movement of the fruit fit the whole look of the shoot when paired with the regular street scene of William and the other talent.
与此同时，拍摄不同的水果爆炸，要保证灯光、质地、运动的平衡，跟街道上陈伟霆等演员一起构成完整的画面，融为一体。
The final image was created by overlapping the live footage of William, in combination with the real-time capture of fruit explosions and then with touch ups and final adjustments of color and size in post production.
最后，陈伟霆的现场录像跟水果爆炸实时捕捉的画面叠在一起，才有了最终的作品。后期又有更多的润色，色彩和尺寸调整。
Binn KT explained, “As you can imagine, it’s hard to control liquid’s exact movements, so to get the cut I wanted, the slow-motion liquid shots all had to be done in post-production – using the image created in the real-time simulations as a reference. Each individual part of the liquid – the trickiest to simulate in 3D – to the fruit pieces were created separately, then layered into one image. So the result you see is individual images that were carefully created and then put together for one final moving image.”
Binn KT解释说，“可以想象，很难控制液体的精确运动，所以要想找到满意的画面，液体镜头的慢动作都要放到后期去做 – 利用实时模拟的画面作参考。一片一片的水果迸发出的每一个水珠（这也是3D模拟中最难的部分），都是单独做出来的，然后再一层一层叠加做成一个画面。最终观众看到的，其实是小心翼翼所做出的每一个画面，通过合成而做出的一个完整的移动画面。”
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