South Africa 18 - 3 Spain

After a 25-hour mega transfer from Spain, we’re back.

The actual Sony Twilight football event that we attended took place in a bullring in the historical town of Antuguera about an hour out of Malaga.

The football game itself was set up in the middle of the bullring with an all-star South African outfit taking on a local Spanish rock band. Understandably with the likes of Mark Williams [ex-Bafana bafana African nations cup winner] and the sports guy from Etv in the South African team – it wasn’t really a contest. South Africa drilled the Spanish 18-3.

Winners

They could have put more past them, but they went to Club Duvet in the second half and only scored 5 goals.

Photographers from around the world shot the action on the new Sony low light gear during the game which was uploaded, along with all the other footage from the other 6 games to Sony’s servers, and will form part of a global marketing campaign for the range leading up to the 2010 World Cup.

The low-light capabilities of our own camera was remarkable. It actually seemed to shoot better images the darker the stadium got. We shot loads of footage – so as the editing gets done and all the stupid things we said gets dumped – we can pop them up here.

Check out the photographs from all the other games that happened around the world on the official Flickr page here.

A teaser of all the goals against the Spanish team.

South Africa taking no prisoners

The images from the Sony Twilight Football event that we are attending are beginning to be uploaded by the media guys that are taking part.

Go check out the action here.

Ola!

The all important football really only gets cracking tomorrow – so we spent a bit of time today exploring the historical port city of Malaga on the Spanish south coast.

It’s expensive, beautiful and pretty old. Here’s a very quick photo recon of what we’ve found so far…

More rooftop at sunset

Sundowners

mmmmm...beer!

Spanish gangsta

We lost the dog

What's on...

No bull

The muppets

Getting spiritual

The Sony XR520VE - nice in low-light

The Spanish visas are sorted – now just the white knuckle ride to see if our passports make it back in time from the British High Commission in Pretoria before we head to Malaga, Spain for the Sony Twilight Football event next week.

The whole point of the trip is to test drive the new Sony XR520, which is remarkably good at shooting video footage in low light – hence the football match in a bullring at dusk. So we’ll be putting together a couple of new episodes of Cherryflava TV [here's our very first one which we shot on National Braai day at Mzoli's] as part of the trip.

Apart from the low light specs of the camera it can also shoot 101 hours of sparkling HD video on its massive 240GB hard disk drive – so we won’t have to hit the delete button till we get back to SA.

More:

Twilight football in Spain

The Sony XR520- product page

Previously:

Cherryflava heads to Spain with Sony – Cherryflava

Breaking news:

On the 22nd of September [that's next week Tuesday] – 7 different games of football will be played in seven different locations around the world as part of an advertising campaign for Sony’s brand new range of low-light digital equipment. We’ve been invited to shoot and record some of the action with the new gear at the Spanish game, which is being played in a bull-ring at sunset.

Twilight Football celebrates the latest low light filming technology from Sony. All seven games will take place on 22nd September 2009, the Autumnal Equinox (northern hemisphere) and Vernal Equinox (southern hemisphere). The matches will be taking place at stunning, specially chosen locations in: Italy, France, the UK, Spain, Argentina and Australia, with the Twilight Football grand final happening at Soccer City, Johannesburg, the venue for the final of 2010 FIFA World Cup. Each match takes place in a location chosen to provide a spectacularly beautiful background for a truly unique activity.

Understandably we’re as excited as Madonna in an orphanage about it and will be documenting the trip [as invited photographers] with video and stills as we go along.

It’s a killer marketing idea and we can’t wait to get our hands on the cameras and our asses to Europe to be part of it.

More: Sony’s Twilight Football