we shoot the actors on the set, and then we go through and add in our c.g.se markers were intentional. we can create a path of where we want the dominoes to travel. we've populated the entire shot with proxy geometry representations of what an iphone would look like, and at a later stage, we can take those cubes and replace them with higher resolution iphone geometries. >> the elevator scene was shot with a nice clean plate. we get the elevator and actor in context. >> we blur the background a little to really sell the fact that the iphone here, and de-emphasizing the background. >> for the big finale of the video, we set a camera up high and wide. and we see the wave of crashing iphones. once they've all settled and we have basically a ten, 20-foot screen that we're now able to display whatever content we wanted to. >> the 80-second video takes more than 1,300 hours to produce. all of that hard work pays off. on april 17th, 2014, they released the video online, and it soon reaches more than 7.5 million views. hopes topple when people who believe the video i