Off Topic..an amazing ad to watch..hope the link works..
04-26-2006, 08:10 AM
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Off Topic..an amazing ad to watch..hope the link works..
I try to be discriminating on what I post but this ad is absolutely amazing. I have watched it multiple times. Sounds like the Rolling Stones at the end. The ad description is below..
Bill Bachhuber
New Hartford, CT
"You thought those people that set up rooms full 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.
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."<ul><li><a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php">Honda Ad</a></li></ul>
Bill Bachhuber
New Hartford, CT
"You thought those people that set up rooms full 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.
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."<ul><li><a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php">Honda Ad</a></li></ul>
04-26-2006, 09:01 AM
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The ad team ripped off the concept from some Englishmen who did the same thing...
... as a kinetic art installation in the sixties. You can buy a tape of it at the Hirschorn Gallery in DC. It even has a tire rolling uphill. So similar it is amazing. The ad team received all the accolades that advertising can give and never once mentioned their 'inspiration'. Cads.
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