I have seen many windows with the telltale "gravity slump" when I lived in San Francisco. Some would have horizontal ripples in them instead of the thicker bottom, much like skin sags from old age. I suppose that could also be a manufacturing defect.
Well-done fake - and kudos for spotting the duped palm trees, Kct. I make movies like this for a living, and this one is pretty slick.
What I always find funny about these viral movies is the "kinda shaky - but not too shaky" camera work. All you have to do is look at the tsunami footage or Barry Bond's home run fan footage to see truly crappy hand-held camera work. I doubt anyone would be composed enough to shoot that so well if it were really happening. A home run is one thing - a (potentially) alien spacecraft is quite another.
This technique goes back about 100 years. It's been used for placing miniatures or paintings into movie scenes before the invention of the optical printer, and even much more recently. It's very easy to do, as long as you have a lot of light, which creates the long focus area so everything from a few inches to infinity is in focus.
I used this technique in my teenage moviemaking days. A friend stood on a ladder far from the camera and a crashed spaceship model was placed right up in front of the camera, so it looked like he was climbing out of the top hatch of the ship. Those were the days!
I'm wondering if they have an anti-mosquito valet that swats them away.
What I always find funny about these viral movies is the "kinda shaky - but not too shaky" camera work. All you have to do is look at the tsunami footage or Barry Bond's home run fan footage to see truly crappy hand-held camera work. I doubt anyone would be composed enough to shoot that so well if it were really happening. A home run is one thing - a (potentially) alien spacecraft is quite another.
I used this technique in my teenage moviemaking days. A friend stood on a ladder far from the camera and a crashed spaceship model was placed right up in front of the camera, so it looked like he was climbing out of the top hatch of the ship. Those were the days!