Disappearing Cars - BP Commercials x 3

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  • Release Date: 28th October 2001
  • Asset ID: 802001
  • Synopsis: 3 commercials. All three use the theme of people in situations and finding themselves without cars because BP new cleaner burning fuels do the equivalent of taking 3 000 000 cars of the Road. The first advert is the longest and has the most footage the following are simply shorter re-edits of the first commercial. 1 - 60" 2 - 30'' 3 - 30"
  • Shotlist: This is a shot list of the first commercial only. 00.00.10.00 - Start - Med wide tracking shot along the side of a road looking at the cars in a traffic jam (Goddard rip off?) as it tracks along we see a family still in the positions they would be in, in a car but sitting on the floor. 00.01.12 - close an old man is lying on his back with a wrench as if he was reparing a car. 00.01.14 - Wide of him on his back in the middle of his drive way looking up quite confused. 00.01.16 - Wide shot at night tracking right to left on a couple making out in the back of a 2CV. As a tree passes infront of the screen the car is obscured and disapears leaving the couple making out on the floor 00.01.20 - close up of the lovers realising that their car has gone. 00.01.21 - close of the front of a lot of bike head lamps. Pulling into focus 00.01.23 - wide of the bikers 'burning' away 00.01.24 - very smooth cut to mid close and a biker standing in the middle of the road. 00.01.28 - Pan up from fat tattooed man looking up to a window. 00.01.31 - wide shot shows that it is a fast food drive through and he cannot reach up to take the food. 00.01.34 - Montage of chickens and people looking on. 00.01.42 - Wide shot (on a crane slowly moving up) of boxes of chickens that have crashed onto the floor because there is no lorry underneath then. 00.01.46- Med wide of two people without a car going through a car wash. 00.01.50 - tracking close up along the new BP lower emision fuel pumps. Pulling focas to a man holding a pump but with no car. 00.01.56 - High shot of the BP Sign. 00.01.58 - BP helios graphic 00.02.00 - End copyright:BP Copyright Licensing restrictions:Check with press office Other notes: made by Ogivly & Mather. Donated by Felicity Bond
  • Production Company: Ogivly & Mather
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None