Estrella Damm "Rocket man"
Miracles beer can achieve!
In this commercial we nearly got gased to death! Also the stuntman got a sneak preview looking down into his own grave. And on top of that our DOP had his life summed up in a macro second when the helicopter had to tilt over for a straight down angle with the camera. (We thought it was funnier with an old vietnam rig rebuildt to a camera thing, rather than using wes cam that is for sunday sailors...) The gas attack happened when the stool tilted over in the old mans appartment and blasted us straight in the faces. The effects guys explained the gas was toxic afterwards and they didn't want to be close to the stool. Great! Then the stunt tried the rig and did something spectacular even in olympic genres, but his head was very close to becoming a dressing for the catering below! The spot turned out really entertaining we think and we got loads of stories for the grand children at the open fire place later on so all good!
Client: Estrella Damm Agency: Villa Rosas Produced by: Stink UK Post production: Swiss.se
From the shoot:
This guy never made it into the edit, which we now regret. He fell down from the sky with a toilet seat around his neck, and that's why he never made it to the edit possibly!
The main actor had never been in a commercial shoot before, and we felt sorry this one popped his cherry! he had to be in wires, jump into ice cold water over and over again, he was also attacked with green objects in a super strong fan wind which we didn't warned him about (for the realistic surprising look). He was great though and we hope he didn't change career completely!