Honda Cog Commerical, amazing to watch.

[Mango]

You have got to watch this!!! Download it from one of the mirrors.

Download mirrors

Here is the official report from Honda about the commercial. Please note, it's for the new Honda Accord Wagon, which is not for sale in the U.S. yet and probably won't be for a year or two.

[HoppysMag]

although i do like the rube goldburge idea... overall id giv it 2 outa 5 stars...

i mean can you say stop montion... how did the tires go up the ramp?

[FooTemps]

IF you read that article up there it says that they weighted them with a few bolts so it'd go up on a light touch. IT WAS NOT STOP MOTION! IT IS ALL REAL TIME AND REAL FILM! That's an amazing long pan shot too... 2 mintues...

(I've taken a video class for a year so far and all I've got to say is that's amazing. Well, it's amazing from a production standpoint due to the 606 takes... The most takes I've ever required is around 10. To get something to run so smoothly... amazing)

AHH! I'm so mad you think lowly of it... really... That's so uncool for such a good production to be critisized so badly... but I do understand why you thought that.

[HoppysMag]

ether way, it still doesnt tell me anything about the car... if this was an artistic film i would give it high reviews... but lets face it its a comercial ment to make me wanna buy it and well it didnt it actualy makes me dislike hondas even more than my current bias... to each his own

i mean BMW films isnt as artistic but they have great action shots of the cars doing cool stuff... makes me want to buy one. i mean even that poniac commercial that brings you in throught the gear box makes me want a poniac... this does nothing for me.

and dont think im some un educated peasent boy who doesnt know anything about film making... iv made several short films in my day, not any of this artistic stuff. but thats just not my think ok.

[Mango]

Thank you Foo for actually taking the time to read the article and understand the film. That really is a masterpeice in and of itself. 606 takes it took them to get it. There were NO CGI or CAMERA TRICKS used. That is 100% real time.

[ntn4502]

That was awesome!!! I have no idea why there wasn't a dead body after 600 takes though

[synreal]

Originally posted by SprayingMango
There were NO CGI or CAMERA TRICKS used.

this is not quite true, the rolling muffler is CGI (just about a second's worth) and this was only because they could not find a suitable location long enough to film the entire shot in one pass.

if was done in two parts and spliced together in post.

none the less, gorgeous and a truly phemonial piece of work.

[Mango]

As it says in the article I posted: "Although it would have been much easier to fiddle the chain of events by using computer graphics, the seesaw and shunt of events really did happen, and in one, clean take."

That is where I am getting my information.

Where did you get yours from?

[Ironmag]

I've seen this video for a few weeks now and, for some reason, I just can't beleive it's ALL real time. C'mon, from the beginning, the first cog does not roll smoothly at all. To me, this is a sign of stop-motion photography. There are several instances in this video that just seem off, animation wise, that give off the impression of stop-motion photography. Also, the gravity defying tires rolling up but not back down, THAT has to be fake.

[Mango]

*sigh*...I give up

[synreal]

///ASIDE FROM THE 1 SECOND MUFFLER CLIP THE VIDEO IS LIVE PHOTOAGE IN REAL-TIME///

[pbzmag]

Cool vid! One reason I can think of why the cog looks "fake" when rolling is the film that they used. Remember some of those old western movies where they have a shot of the wagon moving and it looks like it's not turning? That was because of the shutter closing the exact same time the next spoke moved into the same place the previous spoke was. I think it was called the wagon wheel effect. That it what is most likely happening when the cog is rolling.

[FooTemps]

Originally posted by synreal
///ASIDE FROM THE 1 SECOND MUFFLER CLIP THE VIDEO IS LIVE PHOTOAGE IN REAL-TIME///

Really? that's kinda weird... I would have thought they would have just modified it again... I mean, they cut out a lot in order to fit it in already... why not just cut one more out?

Stupid super realistic cg... bah.... and are you sure it's cg?


and maybe the cog looks fake because of the import quality? I bet it'd be rolling if we saw it on tv. I kinda find it odd that the cog has no motion blue either.

[HoppysMag]

Originally posted by pbzmag
Cool vid! One reason I can think of why the cog looks "fake" when rolling is the film that they used. Remember some of those old western movies where they have a shot of the wagon moving and it looks like it's not turning? That was because of the shutter closing the exact same time the next spoke moved into the same place the previous spoke was. I think it was called the wagon wheel effect. That it what is most likely happening when the cog is rolling.

ya but isnt everything digitized now adays? so whould there still be a need for shutter?

[pbzmag]

Originally posted by HoppysMag


ya but isnt everything digitized now adays? so whould there still be a need for shutter?

I'm not really sure, but I think most studios still uses film. The only movie that is fully digital, no film at all, is SWII:The Clone Wars. Anyone who is taking or took film production as a major can tell use about cinema cameras and how they work?