( CNN ) The director of a video showing a woman being catcalled on the streets of New York has weighed in on the seeming racial disparity of the men featured . Rob Bliss , who posted the video on behalf of the anti-street-harassment group Hollaback ! , told CNN that those shown were just a small sample . `` Looking at this as being some type of sample that is completely balanced , I think , is never going to be accurate , '' he said . `` To do that , we would have had to shoot for days and days , and we did n't set out to make a long video . '' Bliss , who was inspired by the experiences of his girlfriend , tracked volunteer Shoshana Roberts as she walked through the city over the course of 10 hours . The video shows her being greeted by mostly black and Latino men with calls like `` Hey , baby , '' `` Damn ! '' and `` What 's up , beautiful ? '' Some of the men even follow her . In a Slate article headlined `` The Problem With That Catcalling Video , '' writer Hanna Rosin notes that `` The one dude who turns around and says , 'Nice , ' is white , but the guys who do the most egregious things -- like the one who harangues her , 'Somebody 's acknowledging you for being beautiful ! You should say thank you more , ' or the one who follows her down the street too closely for five whole minutes -- are not . '' Bliss said that during the 10 hours captured on video , there were 108 instances of street harassment , of which he had 30 to 40 scenes with good enough quality for him to consider . He whittled that down to 20 scenes in the one minute and 57 second video . It 's difficult to distinguish that about six of the men were white because the faces were blurred , Bliss said . `` We have 18 scenes where someone is visible and on camera , and two of the scenes ate up half of the run time '' of the video , he said . `` And yes , those two men were not white . `` We knew this was n't going to be an accurate representation , '' Bliss added . `` For example , there are no Asian men , but that does n't mean that Asian men do n't do this , too . '' Critics questioned the disparity on social media . One tweeted , `` To demonize men of color as the only perpetrators of aggression towards women is patently false and irresponsible . # Catcalling . '' Another person tweeted , `` I just got an attitude from an older white male , I did n't say good morning . # Catcalling since everyone wants to make this a race issue . '' Rosin points out that Bliss , who heads the marketing company Rob Bliss Creative and told New Republic `` I make viral videos for a living , '' has been accused of not being inclusive before . In 2011 , a blogger wrote about the Grand Rapids Lip Dub video project , which Bliss hosted . Directed on the streets of the Michigan city , it featured participants lip-syncing the words to Don McLean 's `` American Pie '' and according to the Grand Rapids Press was one of several community events Bliss organized . But a blogger identified as `` kswheeler '' wrote that the result did n't exactly reflect the racial makeup of Grand Rapids at the time : 57 % white , 18.9 % black , 13 % Latino and 1.62 % Asian-American . `` Otherwise , Grand Rapids looks like Oz , '' the blogger wrote . `` And the people look like they 've been reincarnated from those peppy family-style 1970s musical acts from Disney World or Knott 's Berry Farm . '' Bliss , 26 , said the Grand Rapids video had an open call for participation . As for his latest project , he said the focus on the race of the men has been a distraction and `` very frustrating . '' In no way was he trying to portray one race as being more apt to harass women in the streets , he said . `` I simply wanted to capture street harassment in a very intimate , close-up way in the real world and have people talk about it , '' Bliss said . `` I just wanted to lay it all bare . '' Thursday morning on CNN 's `` New Day , '' Roberts discussed her experience with the catcalls , noting that because she was carrying two microphones while Bliss walked ahead of her with a backpack camera , `` We had great audio . '' As for the racial makeup of the men who attempt to interact with her , she said they were `` men of all colors -- in my experience every day , men of all colors . It does n't matter what size , shape , color . '' CNN 's Jamie Gumbrecht contributed to this story .
Director Rob Bliss says the men in the video were just a small sample . He denies any intent to show one race over another . The video features mostly black and Latino men . Women in video says `` men of all colors '' have harassed her .