PE - Re: That credit card commercial

Stephen Wyley svenskildbiter at angelfire.com
Mon Dec 4 13:15:05 PST 2000


Hi Mira,

Yes, the Nintendo Ad was film in a field outside of Sydney Australia, because it is cheaper than the USA. That's why films like the Matrix and Mission impossible are filmed here plus we have the facilities and expertise. BTW, I saw the protests in Hollywood about this sought of thing happening last year, too bad I say.

Yes, I am in the commercial but are not featured wearing any bathing apparell. I am up the front of the flying wedge.

The Nintendo shoot was filmed over a weekend with two hundred armoured historical re-enactors , 24 horses and riders, a dozen or so featured extras (the ones in the bathing suites), some stunties who we knew from Noah's Ark, and a few SCA ringins. The flying wedge formations are just us filmed flying into the same point from a very tall cherry picker and the colours changed by computer.

Did you like the effects and the armour, etc?

The ad is still to be played in Australia but I know there were good responses when it aired in the USA and Europe.

I look forword to the next lot of work coming our way.

BTW, I am not a member of the SCA so I am from Australia not Lochac.

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On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:30:19   Mira (Tanya Guptill) wrote:
>If memory serves, Sven Skildbiter (from Lochac) told me some time ago that
>he and some of his New Varangian Guard buddies had been in a game
>commercial....I guess I'll have to look more closely and see if that's the
>commercial he was talking about...
>
>(Sven's pic and page is at http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/  )
>
>Mira
>
>"Anthony J. Bryant" wrote:
>
>> StrangeGirl wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > It's very silly, but not as silly as the videogame accessory ad that
>> > has armies with banners of each color the accessory comes in, fighting
>> > it out in the head of a boy so that he can choose. This is followed by
>> > his girlfreind walking up with two bathingsuits and asking him which
>> > one to get... which results in a scene of two armies, clad in these
>> > bathingsuits, fighting it out. Big hairy men with swords, in black
>> > bikinis and flowered maillots.
>> >
>> > I think it may be some of the same extras.
>> >
>>
>> If that's the case, it was filmed down under. Wasn't the game commercial
>> filmed in NZ?
>>
>> Effingham
>
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