HAVE FUN
(Please read this first before clicking on the link below)
and you thought those people that set up roomfulls 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.
click here :
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php
Service
