On 2011-09-26 12:39:15 -0700, Pete A said:

On 2011-09-25 23:14:44 +0100, Savageduck said:

On 2011-09-25 13:06:06 -0700, Pete A said:

On 2011-09-25 20:49:24 +0100, Paul Furman said:

I know a guy who shoots TV commercials. The cost is prohibitive for
copyright permission for most any American city with modern
architecture visible, so he has to shoot in Canada or often Eastern
European cities, and even has had to do CGI virtual buildings if the ad
needs a real fancy piece of modern architecture to work.

Yep, hope this disease doesn't spread to the UK. Some act as if it has.

As some of you know I am quite familiar with South Africa with quite a
few friends there and a lot of travel there, and they are going through
a boom in ad production. I have seen many TV ads for various US beers,
auto companies, and various other products shot in and around Cape
Town. The production costs are low than almost anywhere else. There is
a great exchange rate against the Rand for the Dollar, Euro, and Pound.
So why shoot in Miami when you can use Sea Point in Cape Town, or Camps
Bay a few miles around the coast with a beach front road lined with
palm trees, or a truly glamorous spot such as Clifton. A quick look at
some of the Google images of that beach might remind you of an ad made
at one end or the other standing in for a tropical isle in a beer ad.
Think of Coors Lite.
http://tinyurl.com/4x2ckq7

The scenes with boulder strewn beaches, country homes, modern
apartments, generic cityscapes, etc could at first glimpse be thought
to be anywhere. They could be in any North American or European city.
They could be on any Caribbean or tropical island beach, but there are
definite clues that anybody familiar with the area would recognizes as
being somewhere on the Cape Peninsula.
I have seen ads for VW, Lexus, BMW, Chrysler, Jeep and some others all
made there. One of the Lexus brochures for 2010/2011 had the entire
brochure filled with shots of the car on Cape Town beaches and roads.
Coors, Miller, and Bud Lite have ads shot on some of the same Cape Town
beaches.
Cialis has one of its ads of the two protagonists in bathtubs
overlooking the boulder studded scenery of another.

The most recent is the Carls Jr "Miss Turkey" Turkey Burger ad. Here
is their behind the scenes video. In this ad the tell is the shot of
the mountains in the background beyond the skyline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfN3WawRy8g

Very tasty. Does it include stuffing or is that an extra?

That depends on whether you are going to use your personal turkey
baster or not.

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Regards,

Savageduck