the_josh
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New Honda Commercial in the U.K.
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, 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. 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.
Go to this website and watch the commercial....you won't believe it!
check it out!!!
http://www.daboyz.org/honda/
and if you believe this is a hoax, check this out to prove you wrong:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/hondacog.asp
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, 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. 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.
Go to this website and watch the commercial....you won't believe it!
check it out!!!
http://www.daboyz.org/honda/
and if you believe this is a hoax, check this out to prove you wrong:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/hondacog.asp
