Al Franken edited into new campaign ad?

Yesterday the Al Franken blog league of anonymous video analysts was abuzz with speculation that Norm’s wife, Laurie, was green-screened into our latest ad. Using revolutionary technology and wild speculation, the liberal blogosphere weighed in.

•  “MovieFan” at MN Publius wrote, “I’ve checked with a couple people who work with film and video, including one who has done a lot of greenscreen work. Both felt the same thing: Laurie has been greenscreened in on this ad.” 

• “Chickadee” at MN Blue wrote, “Eric, SOMEBODY has got to investigate this. It's so fakey. It makes my blood boil. I wonder how much he paid her?” 

• “MplsDave,” who prefaced his post with “OMG,” shared Chickadee’s sense of urgency, “Chickadee is right. This does need to be investigated.” 

• “skyblue” at MN Publius wrote, “oh, it’s definitely a composite. They missed the lighting and the camera angles. Oh, and yes, I’m a video guy with 30 years in the game.”  

• “Big E” at MN Blue wrote, “Check out the screen captures from the ad, the lighting is completely wrong. It sure looks like she wasn’t even in the room!” 

• “Joe Bodell” at MN Campaign Report, who seems to believe that this ad employed the same technology used to fake the moon landing, wrote, “Lighting and reflections are one issue, but they were issues when we landed on the moon too.  However, check out the angle in that shot — it looks like Mrs. Coleman is either embedded into the counter, or wasn’t actually in this shot, especially when you consider that the height difference between the two isn’t that big.” 

• Video production insider “Tim” wrote, “It’s definitely a greenscreen, or ‘chroma key’ as we say in the biz.”