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This was a clever video which utilizes YouTube’s HD settings. The video is a setup using a camera trick all plugging the new Samsung I8910 HD phone which shoots video in full high definition quality. It was shot in one take, no editing and with no computer effects. It’s received over 800,000 views since it’s upload a little over a month ago. Can you figure out how they shot this? They leave a number of clues along the way…I noticed a couple. If you want to know the answer they have a making of the video “Camera Trick Revealed” showing all the clues and the answer to how they shot the camera trick.

Once again this week there weren’t any big commercial winners in views of short form video. Could it be because of a  “Susan Boyle Effect” because her video had over 64 million views just last week so people are browsing less elsewhere? One of the real standouts this week is a video called “Carousel” directed by Adam Berg.

While there is no mention of the product in the video itself, the description promotes Philips latest entrant into the television market which displays in the same 21:9 ratio frame cinema proportion television, so no more black bars. This clever video was conceived to work as an endless loop.