i tough this was cool!! got it from a friend (female he he) click here http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php 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) are 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 andare designed to start doing their thing automatically as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the commercial.
There's no way that is real!!! How do the wheels role up the ramp??, Even after the second wheel hits the third one it continues to roll up the ramp, WHAT?? Anyways, thats really cool regardless..
There is a "making of" for this commercial somewhere on the internet... I had it a long time ago when this commercial came out
saw this a few months back somewhere... it is truely amazing! speaking of Honda/Acura.... if any of you out there have a need/want for a b16a/c[??] engine valve cover[red - Type R] or a camber kit set [for last gen integra] i've got them laying around my garage for you for free. you'll just need to pick them up in the OC... let me know
Neccros I live down in Ladera Ranch, but work up in Newport/Irvine. If you want them we could meet up during the week up in that area... Rob yeah it's only the valve cover. i had cut out the cam gear section on the old one, and bought a spare to replace it with when I let the Type R go back in '02 but never got around to replace it. anyone want the camber kits? they are new, never installed. i am just to lazy to ebay/sell them myself.
