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Sony Bravia Balls bounce in San Francisco

Sony had announced the arrival of the BRAVIA LCD and 3LCD range, with a short film featuring coloured bouncing balls (real time) bouncing down the streets of Russian Hill in San Francisco. The message conveyed? The colour we’ll see on these screens will be ‘like no other’. The Bravia advertisement takes a number of forms. The two and a half minute film will fill an entire advert break on its launch in the UK on November 6th, before the game between Manchester United and Chelsea. The ad is available to view online now at www.bravia-advert.com, where Sony offer photographs and film behind the scenes.

Sony Bravia Bouncing Balls Street Scene


Photos from the shoot have been posted in an album, Sony Commercial, on Flickr.

Sony Bravia Balls Street Scene
Sony Bravia Bouncing Balls Street Scene
Sony Bravia Bouncing Balls Street Scene
Sony Bravia Bouncing Balls Street Scene
Sony Bravia Bouncing Balls Street Scene

Sony Bravia Balls Credits

The Sony Bravia Balls commercial was developed at Fallon London by creative director Richard Flintham, copywriter/art director Juan Cabral and agency producer Nicky Barnes.

Filming for Sony Bravia Balls was directed by Nicolai Fuglsig via MJZ with producer Nellie Jordan, and director of photography Joaquin Baca-Asay.

Editing was done by Russell Icke at The Whitehouse Post, London, with assistant editor Sam Gunn.

Post production was done at The Mill, London, by VFX producers Darren O’ Kelly, Stephen Venning, Fi Kilroe, Jordi Bares, Robert Kolbeins, 2D artists Neil Davies, Adam Grint, Dave Birkhill, Judy Roberts, Rich Roberts, Zoe Cassey, Edwin So, Matthew (Wispy) Clarke, 3D artist Laurent Makowski and colourist Adam Scott.

Sound production was done at Wave Studios, London.

Music is provided by Swedish singer José González who will be touring the UK and Australia in November 2005. The song is called “Heartbeats” and features on the album, Veneer. As we’re told in the comments below, the original was sung by Swedish duo, The Knife and recorded on their album, Deep Cuts. Peacefrog will be releasing Jose Gonzalez’s version of ‘Heartbeats’ as a single and DVD on January 9, 2006 and can be pre-ordered now. The DVD includes Heartbeats in studio and live, a video documentary on Jose’s London concert, and ‘Colour Like No Other’.

Lyrics used in the Bravia ad:

One night of magic rush
the start a simple touch
one night to push and scream
and then relief
ten days of perfect tunes
the colors red and blue
we had a promise made
we were in love
to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn’t be good enough for me,
no to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn’t be good enough

Check out the escalator installation featuring the Sony Bravia Balls footage. Advertising agency Viacom Outdoor worked with production company Tonic and post production company Rushes.

Postscript

Sony Bravia ‘Balls’ won a Gold Lion in the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in June 2006, and Grand Prix at the Midsummer Awards in London, July 2006.

48 Replies to “Sony Bravia Balls bounce in San Francisco”

  1. i came on here to find out who this great musician is…. turns out, i already have this song!… just hadn’t noticed it before. jose gonzales is superb. lovely, beautiful!!

  2. I wanted to know who it was singing on this ad. Quite liked it. Thought it was The Shins and was quite surprised to find it was Jose Gonzalez. I like Crosses by him two. Anyway, found out here. Thanks!

  3. just came here like many others still to come -to find out what the music was. great song – will investigate his music – brilliant

  4. ‘Heartbeats’ was originally written by Swedish electronic duo The Knife (released in 2003 and included on their album Deep Cuts).
    You can’t really beat the original sung and written by Karin Dreijer (who sounds a little bit like Bjork). Karin can also be heard singing lead vocals on the excellent new Royksopp single ‘What Else Is There?’.

  5. OH MY GOD!
    THANKYOU SO MUCH!

    I LOVE THAT SONG!

    And I really wanted to know what it was!

    THANKYOU! I seriously can’t thank you enough!

    (I’m one of those people that will go insane looking for a song name/artist/lyrics)

    -K

  6. i hope you sleep well tonight or whenever you nzers sleep, for you have just made my week with your brilliant site, ive always wanted to find a site like this, and now i have, and thanks to you, jose gonazalez is in my life

    legend you are

    lp

  7. I like many here came for the stunning song in the background but i have to be honest i love the advert so simple yet stunningly affective and its nice to see no cgi here real bouncing balls brilliant!

  9. thank you thank you thank you! I knew José already for years but this song…. i did not even recognize him!

  10. Thank you so much, the search for this song has taken half a day ( much of it wasted because I kept thinking it was a HP ad) I even got the girls in administration involved, misdirecting valuable office resources 🙂 but hey! just could’t get that song outta my head

  11. This song is such an audio orgasm. Its such a beautiful song, and im so so glad that i found out who wrote it, so now i can get the tab and learn it 🙂 Hurrah.

    Peace to everyone x

  12. What a beautiful song..

    I feel like a complete sap tearing up at a TV commercial but it works every time. The song is gorgeous and I am very intrigued to find out more about Jose Gonzalez. Thank you for the informative site.

  14. Hi

    well what can i say. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR POSTING THIS ON THE WEB!!!!!! i am so happy to have found this track and just got and purchased the album now. thank you

    Chris (very happy)

    from Bath England

    P.s Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

  16. Thanks a bunch! It would’ve taken me a lot more than five minutes if it wasn’t for your site!

    Awesome song+commercial!

  17. dude i thought i would never find who sung this beauty.. how do you find out about these things?!

  18. thank you very much. I work in a cinema and have been screening this ad for weeks. finally i said to myself, “go out and find who this artist is…” and it only took three words in google! Amazing stuff!

  20. Now I hear the song all the day,…the voice of the singer is so fantastic!!! ,…the song makes me feel better -> thank you!
    mfg, mira xxx

  24. you can hear the full version of the song when you go to radio blog and you can also listening to some of his other mucis tracks just type radio blog in google search bar happy listening ppl cos jose gonzalez music is sensational :0)

  26. i wasn’t asking about a free copy,but speaking of it,do you know where to get that from?

  29. Yeh, I really love this song too. Sounds so much like my hero Nick Drake. I had to check it out.

    Brian. Derby, England

  31. Thanks so much for the information on the song. I heard it twice and really loved it.

  33. ^_^ yayy found the song…watching all the colours is so soothing too and the music fits perfectly, especially with that voice…Beautiful

  36. love the ad its really really brilliant and i really love the tune now thank you well worth the watch

  38. LA CANCION ES REALMENTE SENSACIONAL… ES… HACE SENTIR… VUELO… IMAGINO… DISFRUTO… VIVO !!!!
    GRACIAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DESDE ARGENTINA…

  40. dear website owner,
    i thank you for this information about this song.
    I liked this music from this song in this advertisement
    and was searching to find out which song it was and landed here. Thanks for providing this information very neatly
    Nice site, nice work

  41. Hey all,
    This advert is brilliant!!! I love the song it is so relaxing and all those bouncy balls bouncing are just amazing!
    Wooooooooow!! well done to the creators!!

    Angie xx

  42. Hello!

    How can I download the music of this advertisement? Please, help me! I LOVE THIS MUSIC!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

  44. This is one of my favorite ads. You could argue that the ad loses effectiveness because the brand is not established until the very end, but some of the beauty would be lost if it screamed SONY from the get go. The other Sony Bravia commercials I’ve seen are also aesthetically pleasing, but this is definitely my favorite.

  45. ok yeah i think the song being played is ok. but seriously guys. this commercial is so cool!! i would have loved to be there. thanks to my science teacher for showing me this commerical!! Sony is amazing<33

  46. omg this is so classical, defo downloading this to my ipod 2 . it helps me get to sleep at night …when times are tough much love <3

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