Professor

http://www.thestate.com/2010/06/26/1...or-a-spin.html

Does anyone else find that BMW, the ulitmate driving machine, needs to be filmed by a Mercedes? So much for the X5.

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

a company hires an advertising agency to make the TV commeracial.

then the agency hires a production company to shoot the fking thing.

are you stupid?

CL6

I love it.

BMWs suck.

Crazy Bimmer

You know that BMW isnt a production company, right?

Professor

This is the home state of the only USA manufacturer of BMWs. So, you dumb fucks, would Coke hire a Pepsi production company to make a commercial...

There needs to be an IQ test for membership on this forum.

A bit added... the ad was producted by BMW USA... Spartanburg, SC, and outsourced labor by Randstad USA, where my wife works.

So take that pigfuckkers... oh how I love 5th grade smack.

Crazy Bimmer

JS + XES

iTrader: (1)

you are not stupid, but I am. I apologize.

Professor

I'm sorry for calling everyone dumfucks and pigfuckkers... I'm tensed out and piss drunk watching the South Carolina v. Clemson game in the College World Series. And my Clemson neighbor is throwing peanuts at me...

princelybug

iTrader: (16)

Point taken. No way in the world would I have a MB filming my Bimmer, if I was part of BMW.

TS_eXpeed

No, because Pepsi isn't a production company either.
Generally, you hire the production company for the product they produce, not the tools they use to produce it. That production company has most likely used that MB which is specifically fitted with that rig to produce many other commercials, which could include not only other vehicle brands but commercial having nothing related to vehicles.

TS_eXpeed

It's not like BMW purchased the MB to film the commercial...

Hell, they very well may have not known what the production company was going to use in terms of specific vehicle.

Professor

From what I understand, HSI didn't fly a Merc in. They used the SC Film agency and only directed it.


Nevertheless if they flown the Merc in or not, I'd be jumping all over that pic I posted if I were a Merc production company.

mcflyguy24

Who cares what vehicle was used to film it I think I've seen that same type of mercedes used to film a lot of different things.

srika

I'm guessing that's the same ML they use all over the country for this kind of shooting. It makes its rounds. The fact that they used it for this just means they wanted the best camera car (truck) for the job. I think it's one of the best in the country, and they use it frequently for car commercials. Here is a pic I took in LA in 2006:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/delobbo/3546478546/


OMG Mercedes shooting an Audi holy sh*t stop the presses...

BluBrett

Wow OP hope you put your flame suit on! I don't think you're, uh, what they said, but I agree, the production company chooses the car, not the manufacturer that hired the production company. I can only imagine them trying to move that equipment from the MB to an X5 .

West6MT

It is,...


Here's a post from sarlacc from 2006.
The most badass ML55 you will ever see. Movie Car conversion
This ML55 was tricked out to be a full driving camera crane. It is heavily used on car commercials. I have a friend who worked with it on a Saab commercial a few year back.

This car is perfactly balanced...completely matte black, right down to the wheels. Has black covers for the headlights, and black netting for the windows. IE: this car was made to not reflect of the surface of other cars.

If you want to see this thing in action, pop in the 2nd disc of Batman Begins:SE. Go to the section on the batmobile. You will see this thing driving on a SET over 100mph.

The first pic is the ML with the jib arm and remote head...and a HD camera for show.

The next pic shows how the passenger seat was retrofitted for a camera operator. He has his wheels (controls the remote head) and video tap. You'll aslo notice the driver has a video monitor for veiwing as well.

The last pic is where the jib operator sits and controls the arm. Also note the 2nd row seating has 2 montiors...one for the director to ride along, and one for the 1st AC to sit with a remote follow focus to sit and watch and guage the distance to pull focus.

Totally badass:

Costco

Yup, I think I remember seeing Sarlacc or someone posting pics of their work and I noticed a blacked out ML just like that one in one of the shots. Anyways, who gives a crap? If this ML55 was filming a Toyota commercial, no one would think anything of it.