This will blow your mind. Read the text below before you open the web site, and have your sound on.
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 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. Make sure your sound is on.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php
