Some things deserve a second posting

[ambitious_wench]

Remember back in April/May when this movie was going around?

I am still fascinated by it.

Cog

And it's made it's way into Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/hondacog.asp

However, I found this bit to be just a tiny bit of a disappointment. However, I still think it was one of the most fabulous bits of engineering I've ever seen in my entire 43+ years.

The Honda ad was created without special effects. It was split into two continuous takes only because no studio was big enough to accommodate the entire sequence. The only post-production trickery is the lighting on the car doors at the end.

The sequence of events in the advert is actually split into two shots — shooting the whole thing in one go would have been too expensive. "It was a damage limitation idea to snip it into two [parts]," says Rob Steiner, head of television at Wieden & Kennedy, the agency responsible for the advert. (Still not found the join? The first section ends and the second one begins at the one minute mark when an exhaust box rolls off to the right of the screen. Some clever editing bridges the two parts.)

Comments

[deor.livejournal.com]

Remember back in April/May when this movie was going around?

Yes, and I'd still like to know where there's a downloadable version. The thing just doesn't play right on my dial-up connection - I get a few seconds of movie, several seconds of movie on hold which more downloads, several seconds of movie, etc.

*sigh*

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

Let it load fully (a tedious task, I know), then right-click to save to your HD.

Edie

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

How about this:

http://www.fatcats.org/flicks/

Right click on cog.mov and save to disk.

Hope that works for you!

Edie