"Six hundred and six takes it took, and if they had been forced to do a 607th it is probable, if not downright certain, that one of the film crew would have snapped and gone mad.
On the first 605 occasions something small, usually infuriatingly minute, went just slightly awry and the whole delicate arrangement was wrecked. A drop too much oil there, or here maybe one ball-bearing too many giving a fraction too much impetus to the movement. Whirr, creak, crash, the entire, card-house of consequences was a write-off and they had to start again."
"Filming was done over four near-sleepless days in a Paris studio, after one month of script approval, two months of concept drawings and a further four months of development and testing. One of the more surprising things about the ad is that it was not a cheat. 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.
The bigshots at Honda's world headquarters in Japan, when shown Cog for the first time, replied that yes, it was very clever, and how impressive trick photography was these days. When told that it was all real, they were astonished."
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
We had to watch "The Way Things Go" in class. It was pretty crazy go nuts.
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
TIM! Only, a hundred times more kickass!
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
It is impressive. But what's annoying is that now they've stopped showing the whole thing on Brtitish TV, so you settle down to watch it but then it suddenly stops halfway. . .
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I downloaded it a few days ago. I believe that it was actually stated that the rolling muffler part was fake, everything else was real.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
What a stupid thing, to do 606 takes and then CGI it???
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Well I could be wrong.
Posted by Tora Regina (Member # 53) on :
That's pretty impressive if it's all real. I had some friends who had to do something similar (but not as complex, obviously) for a science competition back in high school. You can't imagine how hard it is to get every bit of it working all at the same time.