TOYOL
24-06-2004, 11:56 PM
Go to this website and watch this commercial....you won't believe it! If
you saw it the first time round, watch it again...it's incredible.
Takes 2 minutes. http://www.daboyz.org/honda/ There are no computer
graphics or digital tricks in the film.* Everything you see really
happened in real time exactly as you see it.* The film took 606 takes.
On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They
would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks
shooting night and day.* The film cost six million dollars and took
three months to complete, including a full engineering the sequence. In
addition, its two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on
British television, they're shelling out enough dough to keep any one of
us in clover for a lifetime.* However, it is fast becoming the most down
loaded advertisement in Internet history.
Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in "free"
viewings (Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!).
When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it
immediately without any hesitation-including the costs.* There are six
and only six handmade Accords in the world. To the horror** of Honda
engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the film.
Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and
complete Honda Accord) are parts from those two cars.* The voice-over is
Garrison Keillor.* When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked
it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell
off their chairs when they found out it was for real. Oh! And about
those funky windshield wipers.* On the new Accords, the windshield
wipers have water sensors and are designed to start doing their thing
automatically as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the
commercial.* Just one-second of computer generation is used to link the
two halves-when an exhaust pipe rolls across the floor.* At one point,
three tires roll uphill because inside they have been weighted with
bolts and screws.
you saw it the first time round, watch it again...it's incredible.
Takes 2 minutes. http://www.daboyz.org/honda/ There are no computer
graphics or digital tricks in the film.* Everything you see really
happened in real time exactly as you see it.* The film took 606 takes.
On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They
would then have to set the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks
shooting night and day.* The film cost six million dollars and took
three months to complete, including a full engineering the sequence. In
addition, its two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on
British television, they're shelling out enough dough to keep any one of
us in clover for a lifetime.* However, it is fast becoming the most down
loaded advertisement in Internet history.
Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in "free"
viewings (Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!).
When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it
immediately without any hesitation-including the costs.* There are six
and only six handmade Accords in the world. To the horror** of Honda
engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the film.
Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and
complete Honda Accord) are parts from those two cars.* The voice-over is
Garrison Keillor.* When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked
it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell
off their chairs when they found out it was for real. Oh! And about
those funky windshield wipers.* On the new Accords, the windshield
wipers have water sensors and are designed to start doing their thing
automatically as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the
commercial.* Just one-second of computer generation is used to link the
two halves-when an exhaust pipe rolls across the floor.* At one point,
three tires roll uphill because inside they have been weighted with
bolts and screws.