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Honda's New Ad
Thought I would share, I think this is so cool.
Click to view.
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 automatica! really as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the commercial.
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Re: Honda's New Ad
VERY COOL!!! 
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| Posted 4/20/06 10:46 PM |
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MelToddJulia
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Re: Honda's New Ad
That was cool!
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| Posted 4/20/06 10:59 PM |
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dpli
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Re: Honda's New Ad
Very cool!
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| Posted 4/20/06 11:10 PM |
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ssbride05
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Re: Honda's New Ad
VERY cool... thanks for sharing....
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| Posted 4/20/06 11:10 PM |
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Suezboss
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Intersting.
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| Posted 4/20/06 11:32 PM |
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JenniferEver
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OMG. That's incredible. I adore it!
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| Posted 4/21/06 12:21 AM |
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MissJones
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Re: Honda's New Ad
That is super cool!!!
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| Posted 4/21/06 10:39 AM |
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Lisa
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Re: Honda's New Ad
that is cool!!
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| Posted 4/21/06 10:43 AM |
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LAMGAJ28
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Re: Honda's New Ad
That was pretty neat!
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| Posted 4/21/06 10:43 AM |
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Blu-ize
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Re: Honda's New Ad
This ad was never televised but it's actually about 3 years old.
My Dad worked for a car training co and this was one of their promos.
Very cool.
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| Posted 4/21/06 10:49 AM |
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Re: Honda's New Ad
Posted by Blu-ize
This ad was never televised but it's actually about 3 years old.
My Dad worked for a car training co and this was one of their promos.
Very cool.
i knew i had seen it before!!!
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| Posted 4/21/06 10:53 AM |
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MrsS2005
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Re: Honda's New Ad
Very cool.
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| Posted 4/21/06 10:56 AM |
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Honda's New Ad
that was cool! Great commercial!
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| Posted 4/21/06 11:08 AM |
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yankinmanc
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We had this ad on tv in the UK about 2 years ago, and they gave out free dvd's of it and the making of it in the papers.
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| Posted 4/21/06 1:35 PM |
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