Posted by Hollywood Lonnie on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 at 2:12PM :
In Reply to: Hollywood Lonnie,.. posted by MoparNorm on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 at 10:32AM :
Don't worry Norm, I have my acceptance speech written thanking Mopar Norm, Ken, Don, Eric, Joe, and all the others who have helped Bear along the way. All that is needed now is the successful nomination for the “Cleo” awards this year. I will have to find that “tuxedo” tee shirt around here somewhere.
Two things jumped out at me after watching these commercials.
First, most of the "good" footage of Bear is not shown including shots of the litterbug strapped onto the fender of Bear. I now can understand the actors lament of being left on the cutting room floor. You would think that they would have it together enough to notice that when the heros jump out to rescue the cat, the door was closed, and when they climbed the pole, the door was shown as opened again.
Second, I still amazes me that 50 people can work two days to shoot the raw stock for a few 30 second commercials. This does not count all of the final editing and other work needed to make the commercial a finished product. A lot of trucks, food, people, supplies, talent, etc. just to entertain us for a few seconds.
I can understand now why the average movie can run well over 100 million to make.
It was a lot of fun and I thank all of you who pointed the production company to me.
Norm, the barn shot was done at the Disney Film Ranch near Palmdale. Disney has a property manager there who fines production companies for any infraction of the rules on location. People were not permitted to stand on the grass during the barn launch shot, so the narrow dirt road to the barn was lined with the film crew. The townie driver “not I” then had to accelerate hard out of the barn and drive between the two lines of people to get to the deceleration part of the road. Made me a little nervous.
I am not sure if these are the only commercials to come out of the filming. For instance, they shot a whole sequence of this cute little log rolling lady. The scene was shot at 6000 feet in the mountains in February. I can remember her running up and down this log in just a leotard type outfit. The director yells out “We need more air, bring in the fan!”. They set up a 10 HP fan and start blowing on her as she runs up and down the log. After a while she turned blue and they had to wrap her in heated blankets between scenes.
I am enjoying my 30 seconds of fame and thank you for the kind words.
Best Wishes
Lonnie
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