Posts: 1108
From: Columbus OH USA
Registered: Aug 2005

posted January 06, 2007 01:00 PM         

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And you thought those people that set up roomfuls of dominos to
knock
>> over
>> were amazing...
>>
>> 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. By the time it was over, they were ready
to
>> change professions. The film cost six million dollars and took
>> three months to complete including full engineering of the
sequence.
>>
>> In addition, it's 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.& amazing...
>>
>> However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded 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 hand-made Honda 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) is parts from those two cars. The voiceover
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.
>>
>> click here
>>
>> http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php
>> >
>>

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