ITV fakes terrorist footage using ARMA II

[jerryhopper]

The original YouTube vid from post 1 was removed this evening, possibly someone (I wonder who) complained of copyright infringement. It's back! Thanks to jerryhopper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awl6zEwgwvM

Yea, i figured that this would happen... so i made a copy
If its going down again, i'll reupp

[Dynamo11]

Laughed so hard at the comment:
"Genuine IRA radio message as intercepted by the DUP:
"ALL. MOVE. TO. THAT. ALL. AT. 12 O CLOCK. 'NEGATIVE.' ROGER.' CAN'T GET THERE.' WHERE ARE YOU?"

[NodUnit]

So when do we get to see forces from around the globe rushing into the street of Libya or perhaps rebels with T-62's via Arma footage.

[SwiftyBoy]

if

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then

txt2 = text "shit shit shit the trainee video edit monkey's uploaded the wrong clip shit shit shit"

then

this addeventhandler ["monkey fired"]

[PELHAM]

So when do we get to see forces from around the globe rushing into the street of Libya or perhaps rebels with T-62's via Arma footage.

Search YouTube a few are already on lol.

With the attachTo command for gluing bits and pieces together and the various MODs I would say an NTC / Gadaffi battle is hours away? Someone needs to re-skin some flags.

As for Islands/terrain the Desert_E, [ADO] Tropical and [ADO] Yapal look most like Libya?

[orlok]

Hello all

Hmmm, that video footage looked so realistic, obviously not a game at all.

Lazy Journalism at it's best.

rgds

LoK

[KrAziKilla]

Oh Comon, BIS, you should have used that for marketing purposes, and let it run a few days
I dont really think that is harming the selling of your games.

[Flash Thunder]

[RavoC]

[just_visiting]

Of course it should. This may be a mistake, but nevertheless the broadcasting of videogame footage as evidence in a serious documentary will not convince a single person who is in any way sceptical. Getting this stuff right is important.

It is important, but what's happened here is not simply a mistake. The broadcast footage has been altered, seemingly to increase its (nonexistent ) chances of passing as real.

--the youtube footage has been cropped to 16:9. It didn't do this by itself.
--the audio has been changed, getting rid of the music, changing the machine gun sounds and adding an explosion to punctuate the words 'lucky hit'.
--it's edited from a longer piece and cuts just before the parachutes open, which would ruin its credibility.
--it may be that it's been softened and colour washed out to reduce its game-like appearance. Someone else has already made this point. Hard to be sure from the videos though.

So quite a lot of work went into the video that got broadcast. It wasn't just a bit of youtube dropped in by accident. Even if it *was* an accident that it was included, what are they doing spending time enhancing game footage like this?

In cynical mode, the real footage of the incident is quite boring in televisual terms. The enhanced game clip is much more dramatically interesting. Quite a temptation?