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Have you seen my television commercial?

Posted by DeadRooster • 5/23/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: balloon, camera, commercial, dead rooster, movies, nudists, televison, TV

The commercial is for the 2009 Honda Pilot. I am not on camera, I'm hiding behind the balloon basket with an inflation fan filling the envelope with air before every take (and there were a LOT of takes).

I posted the video on my blog. It's short (only 0:30) so take a look and let me know what you think:

deadrooster.com/tv/is-the-dead-rooster-full-of-hot-air-yes-yes-he-is

User Comments

5/23/08

ThriftShopRomantic

Hopefully, Rooster, those folks weren't really naked there.

'Cause, ya know, if you were hiding back there behind the balloon, well, that's not such a great vantage point for you.

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1. 5/23/08
  
  pointlessbanter
  
  lol... yeah that might have not been pleasant
2. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Actually, they were all pretty-well covered up with skin-colored garments. (thank God).
3. 5/23/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Phew! Thank goodness for that.
5/23/08

Shiley

So, when you become a big celebrity you're not going to let it go to your head are you? You are going to remember all of us little people right?

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1. 5/23/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Seriously-- CNN features and national television commercials all in one week... good grief. Pretty soon we'll have to visit his blog by appointment.
2. 5/23/08
  
  Shiley
3. 5/23/08
  
  OutsideMyBrain
  
  wrong placement sorry - but since i'm here...
  
  lol TSR
4. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  @Shiley--I am ALREADY a celebrity for hiding off-camera. No one hides as well as I do. LOL
  
  @TSR--Maybe I should check to see if they are re-running my "Character Fantasy" episode (I'm actually on camera in that one!)
5/23/08

globalgirl

Um, isn't that you third from the left? You are quite the, um, adventurist.

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1. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  No, it's not me, but when I first started getting sketchy details of what we were possibly going to be shooting (bad, incorrect details) I was hoping to be in the scene. The whole story of my enormous disappointment was chronicled here:
  
  deadrooster.com/humor/follow-up-working-with-a-big-hollywood-production-com...
2. 5/23/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  That was a great post.
3. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Thanks!
4. 5/23/08
  
  globalgirl
  
  It was a great post. I like the details!
  
  Now, you **could** have had your 5 second claim to fame had you simply peered over the balloon! :-)
  
  Maybe you'll get new clients as a result, perhaps for the real James Bond movie! :-)
5. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  @globalgirl,
  
  Thanks!
  
  I didn't dare lift my head up in the scene for two reasons:
  
  1. An angry assistant director would have yelled at me with a rather powerful bullhorn.
  
  2. I don't want to be known as an aging nudist (at least not yet).
5/23/08

jafabrit

lol! that was super!

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1. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Thanks! It was a lot of fun.
5/23/08

crkian

You cann see the back of your butt

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1. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Can you? I didn't think it showed. I kept running it over to see if I could see it because with that fan there wasn't much room for me. Also, I'm 6'2" and thought the top of my head might show as well.
2. 5/23/08
  
  crkian
  
  Maybe ts not but you could make something up to tell everyone, make it so that you really have to look for it
3. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Haha! What an ingeniously evil idea!
  
  Why didn't I think of that?
5/23/08

OutsideMyBrain

At least you didn't have to get in the Pilot with them. Thanks for the laugh

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1. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Couple of interesting things about that: when they shot the interior scenes, they used a completely different Pilot which was on the back of a truck trailer. Even though they shot the scene on the very same road as the exterior scenes, the wheels of the vehicle used to shoot the interior scenes never touched the ground--they just pulled it on a trailer.
  
  There were so many shades, screens and cameras surrounding the "interior" vehicle that you almost couldn't see it from the outside.
5/23/08

Arcticulates

How on earth did you fit your 6'2 frame, behind that balloon basket with all those other guys, It must've been very crowded..

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1. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Those other guys were *in* the balloon basket; I was *behind* the balloon basket.
  
  By the way, it's hard to see in the commercial, but there were two women nudists as well.
5/23/08

7masterheathen

Heeeeeeyy, I love that commercial. Bravo on your part, too. Filling that 50 times must have been hard work. Kickin' it with all those old naked folks all day long must have been fun.

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1. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Thanks!
  
  The biggest problem was when the wind kicked up and pulled the envelope off the hill where it was staked down. We had gusts of up to 40 mph that day.
5/23/08

lordiwanttobewhole

Its been an exciting time in your life lately! Enjoy it!

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1. 5/23/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  Yeah, I think maybe the planets have been aligned for me lately
5/23/08

Theresa111

Well done. I watched it twice. I also saw it tonight on my television. I thought the humor was very nicely portrayed. Thank you for sharing.

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1. 5/24/08
  
  DeadRooster
  
  You're welcome.
  
  It was a lot of fun.