Just a bit of reminiscing about my old short film days at the moment. The days of spending ages with the PhranticTV team trying to think of something fun to film and then being kinda disappointed at the result… really want to get back into it though!

Anyway, it reminded me of how we did a parody of Nike’s awesome commercials where they kick a ball across the screen to each other. Ours was a nice little experiment which I was actually quite happy with. You’d be amazed at how hard it is to sync up well!

The Australian bid for the 2018-2022 World Cup actually copied Nike a little (wasn’t exactly the same but the same idea was used). So I wanted it known that we copied them first! Sure, we didn’t have any celebrities involved or girls in bikinis but we had fun doing it!

Here’s our parody:

Here’s the Australian bid for the 2018-2022 World Cup version:

I wasn’t able to find one of the better Nike commercials which used this, but this one uses the idea a little: