Empty cities in advertisements... (1 Viewer)

[Eric Samonte]

I've been seeing more and more of these commercials showing a huge chunk of thoroughfares with no one on it. Is it a digital thing or actual place?

 

[Mark Brewer]

I believe some of those commercial are done early in the morning to have less impact on traffic.

 

[Tommy Ceez]

Even Times Square is relativly empty at 6:30 on a Sunday Morning. Diverting the rest of the traffic would be no problem.

 

[andrew markworthy]

The simple answer is that sometime's it's done at a quiet time of day and (with local authority co-operation) people are barred from the sections being filmed. In other cases it's done digitally.

 

[Kris McLaughlin]

Here's a cool example of how two guys accomplished that look in a short film. Lots of behind the scenes info with explanations, etc.

http://www.405themovie.com/

An oldie but a goodie.

 

[Holadem]

Even Times Square is relativly empty at 6:30 on a Sunday Morning. Diverting the rest of the traffic would be no problem.

That is exactly what was done in Vanilla Sky.

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Holadem

 

[Eric Samonte]

Ahh...at least now I've got a place to go and do some "filming" in an otherwise "post-apocalyptic virus-plague city " in the future.