Honda Accord Commercial, ....wow... just wow... Options

[elvasoshexai]

And you thought those people that set up roomfuls 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.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php

[Shocker]

that is amaizing

[azian_advanced]

i saw this japanese show that does something very similar but with marbles, text books, and all sorts of gadgets... it seems like they took a lot of time creating and planning keeping in mind of the laws of physics for everything to work so smoothly..

this was a lot better than the ones i've seen though, man... that must've been one LONG room!

[94_st_hatchback]

wow!...WOW!!!!..i like the wind shield wiper part..that was good...whole thing was good..is that a wagon or is that how the new accords look??

[elvasoshexai]

ya.. i saw the japanese one that went through several rooms.. it was really good too.. but this one.. i think it took a lot more physics planning...

and i think that is the accord wagon for the european market

[Mynzeyes]

old.

and i still don't see how the wheels rolled up the ramp..

[jess_i_74]

Also, can you find the splice? it wasn't done in one continous run; there wasn't enough space.

[Yellow94GT]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php
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That one is my favorite.

I saw it on another link too.
Accord commercial



Yellow94GT

[bloodrain]

I call BS, there is no way in hell those tires rolled UP the ramp, going that slow.

[Yellow94GT]

I call BS, there is no way in hell those tires rolled UP the ramp, going that slow.

The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th wheels look as if they had been heavily weighted on the tops to make the incline without rolling backward.

Yellow94GT

[bloodrain]

good job honda, continue wasting all your money on stupid commercials. And that new accord is just freakin ugly.

This post has been edited by bloodrain: Jul 30, 2006 - 12:31 PM

[forkee]

very old, yea supposedly there were weights in the tires

[CelicaBuddy]

I saw this video in Physics before...

[elvasoshexai]

damn.. i only saw the video yesterday lol.. i'm so out =/

and the only videos we get to see in physics are videos from like.. the 80s lol... did ur physics teacher make u replicate it after watching lol

[Benevolence]

good job honda, continue wasting all your money on stupid commercials. And that new accord is just freakin ugly.

It's called advertising, and I think honda accomplished its mission by having all of us + millions of other people watch this comercial too.

[jdg371]

good job honda, continue wasting all your money on stupid commercials. And that new accord is just freakin ugly.

It's called advertising, and I think honda accomplished its mission by having all of us + millions of other people watch this comercial too.

they tricked me!

[CelicaBuddy]

damn.. i only saw the video yesterday lol.. i'm so out =/

and the only videos we get to see in physics are videos from like.. the 80s lol... did ur physics teacher make u replicate it after watching lol

lol nope he didnt... he wanted to tho but we didnt have enough time in the year to make it

[mzztoyota]

saw that one a looooong time ago, ebaumsworld, I think. Cool to watch, but didn't make me want to buy a Honda...

[bloodrain]

saw that one a looooong time ago, ebaumsworld, I think. Cool to watch, but didn't make me want to buy a Honda...

same, it made me think, "wow, what does this have to do with an accord."

[tomazws]

nice!

I love non-US accords...

Aren't they Acura TSXs?

This post has been edited by tomazws: Jul 31, 2006 - 2:16 PM