"Kevin Craig" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:220720031747478857%[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>, Fred McClellan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:13:51 GMT, "hugh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >http://tellafriend.us/r/cool
> > >
> >
> > Not to mention three auto wheels/tires that can defy gravity by
> > rolling uphill.
>
> They're eccentrically weighted.
>
> I first saw this a few months back. It took more than 600 failures
> before they got the whole shot to work.
>
> Kevin
Excellent use of "eccentrically". I read the article in the Daily Telegraph
a few weeks ago. Pretty impressive work. I like the part of the story
where they show it to the big guys back in Japan and they say it's amazing
what you can do with trick photography. Then they explain that it's all
real and actually happened just as shown in one take. (or in 607 takes
depending on your POV).
todd
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:16:00 -0500, todd wrote:
> "Kevin Craig" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:220720031747478857%[email protected]...
>> In article <[email protected]>, Fred McClellan
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:13:51 GMT, "hugh" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> >http://tellafriend.us/r/cool
>>> >
>>>
>>> Not to mention three auto wheels/tires that can defy gravity by
>>> rolling uphill.
>>
>> They're eccentrically weighted.
>>
>> I first saw this a few months back. It took more than 600 failures
>> before they got the whole shot to work.
>>
>> Kevin
>
> Excellent use of "eccentrically". I read the article in the Daily Telegraph
> a few weeks ago. Pretty impressive work. I like the part of the story
> where they show it to the big guys back in Japan and they say it's amazing
> what you can do with trick photography. Then they explain that it's all
> real and actually happened just as shown in one take. (or in 607 takes
> depending on your POV).
>
> todd
Technically, it's in two shots, and does have a little digital work. There
is a break in the middle (I can't quite remember why, but it was a physical
limitation, they just didn't have a choice) that was spliced together with
a little digital touchup.
Still, freakin' amazing work.
david
--
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have
of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
In article <[email protected]>, Fred McClellan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:13:51 GMT, "hugh" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >http://tellafriend.us/r/cool
> >
>
> Not to mention three auto wheels/tires that can defy gravity by
> rolling uphill.
They're eccentrically weighted.
I first saw this a few months back. It took more than 600 failures
before they got the whole shot to work.
Kevin
The set wasn't long enough to do it all in one take. There's a single
splice where the muffler is rolling, I believe, which is one of the
least complicated sections so it's not like they cheated to bypass
something that just wouldn't go.
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:17:56 -0500, D K Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Technically, it's in two shots, and does have a little digital work. There
>is a break in the middle (I can't quite remember why, but it was a physical
>limitation, they just didn't have a choice) that was spliced together with
>a little digital touchup.
>
>Still, freakin' amazing work.
>
>david
>--
D K Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
> Technically, it's in two shots, and does have a little digital work. There
> is a break in the middle (I can't quite remember why, but it was a physical
> limitation, they just didn't have a choice) that was spliced together with
> a little digital touchup.
Where does this story come from? All the regular published stuff
I have read says one take, no digital tricks, period. Yet, I have
seen this statement about having to put together 2 half takes with
some digital splicing on several Internet newsgroups. It doesn't
matter too much, but if there is a definitive source for the 2 shot
story I'd like to know what it is.
Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:47:35 GMT, Kevin Craig <[email protected]>
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, Fred McClellan
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:13:51 GMT, "hugh" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >http://tellafriend.us/r/cool
>> >
>>
>> Not to mention three auto wheels/tires that can defy gravity by
>> rolling uphill.
>
>They're eccentrically weighted.
>
>I first saw this a few months back. It took more than 600 failures
>before they got the whole shot to work.
>
Ah.
So, any way you wanna slice it, you probably don't want those wheels
on your car, right ?
Cheers,
Fred McClellan
the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
[email protected] writes:
>D K Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Technically, it's in two shots, and does have a little digital work.
>Where does this story come from? All the regular published stuff
>I have read says one take, no digital tricks, period.
There aren't any "tricks", it's just a splice. The digital part
is to make a seamless transition between the two parts (where the
muffler rolls across the floor). Supposedly the room wasn't long
enough to lay out the whole thing at once. I don't know where the
"one take" story came from, probably an over-simplification by a
reporter somewhere.
There is a page with a lot of links at:
<http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html>
There's a complete flash animation of the ad at the top, just hit
"stop" if you don't want to wait for it to load. Down below on
the same page are these links (watch line wrap):
<http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/
04/13/nhonda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html>
<http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12844132
&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=TAKE%20606>
<http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/business/
1051618164120441.xml?oregonian?fng>
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081638/>
<http://www.autonews.com/article.cms?articleId=43452>
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=396534>
<http://www.carpages.co.uk/honda/
honda_launches_stylish_new_accord_06_04_03.asp>
<http://www.autonews.com/article.cms?articleId=43452>
At least a couple of these will mention the splice.