Logan Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Interesting Honda commercial....check it out... Dave, You will like this - Happy Birthday! Your Big Brother (Biggie Wiggie) -----Original Message----- From: Martin H. Comer Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:59 PM To: Jim L. Logan; Ed J. Dobbs; Richard J. Schalter Subject: FW: this is cool! I think you have this but here it is again -----Original Message----- From: Pamela Thomsen [mailto:pamela@smeal.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:56 PM To: Martin H. Comer; Mike Preston; Brian T. Askew; Bob Grinstead; John C. Swanson; John P. Bement; David C. Skidmore; John Witt Subject: FW: this is cool! --I thought you engineering chaps might get a charge from this... Bon appetite` pjt ... make sure to check it out! Subject: Honda Accord . . . . Check this commercial out... 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 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 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. http://www.daboyz.org/honda/ Logan Diagnostic LLC www.airbagcrash.com www.logandieselusa.com www.ledfix.com www.ledfix.com/yukontaillightrepair.html www.ledfix.com/ledreplacements.html www.ledfix.com/j42385toolrental.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacseville Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 whew... that was pretty precise stuff. i don't like the tires rolling uphill though, it kinda makes the whole thing look fake. was that thing really worth 6 million though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob D Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Rube Goldberg is alive and well! '93 STS.. opened, dropped, wide...fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgr7 Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 I saw that a year or so ago. I showed every one I know, LOL. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByStorm Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Cool.... ByStorm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marika Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Amazing! I've sent that link to all my e-mail friends. Everyone is amazed by it. If you really want to make people safe drivers again then simply remove all the safety features from cars. No more seat belts, ABS brakes, traction control, air bags or stability control. No more anything. You'll see how quickly people will slow down and once again learn to drive like "normal" humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaddyChris Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 how do the tires just go up hill? Tires just dont go up hill do they? I'm not a naysayer, someone explain how the tires just go up a hill? Thanks Christopher Petro 94 sts 67 coupe de Ville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 From the original post: 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. Logan Diagnostic LLC www.airbagcrash.com www.logandieselusa.com www.ledfix.com www.ledfix.com/yukontaillightrepair.html www.ledfix.com/ledreplacements.html www.ledfix.com/j42385toolrental.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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