[English Stu]

Hi all
I was on the last Corona shoot in Mexico in June this year. I filmed the 'Behind the Scenes' during the shoot, which lasted 10days, finishing on June 11th with a fun 'wrap party'.
Was a great experience, about 90 people on set, all the production crew, actors (I think Melissa and Ana were the nicest...), catering crew etc.
Started pre-dawn most days - had to be there at about 5am!

None of the last commercials were filmed in Paamul. - Several different locations were used for this batch of 9 or 10 commercials, quite a few were at Xpu-Ha where the crew actually built an entire building as a 'hotel room' on the beach at Xpu-Ha. There was one which was further south - not far from Tulum. That had a deck built for it, with a male model sitting in a chair, listening to an ipod, and then his 'girlfriend' (a.k.a. real life name Melissa from Brazil) join him on the deck. We shot a LOT of takes for that. I think it was something stupidly high like 130 takes. Even the clients were getting restless for sure...

I was going to (at the time in June 2007 ) write about the shoot on this site, but i never got round to it.
I have plenty of stills shots (a few hundred) of the making of these Corona TV commercials (i can post them up soon if anybody wants to see them(, as well as a 1hour highlights DVD i put together for one or two of my fellow workers on the film set. I could probably make some copies of that DVD if anybosy wants one (for a few pesos...).

I know that the 'Ghost' commercial aired in the USA (and i think here too) over Hallowe'en. The star of that one was a very tall, very white, very skinny guy called Kurt who was flown over from Australia just for that one days filming !! He was the 'anti-cool' guy who stumbled across 4 bronzed beautiful folk sunbathing on the beach. Funny guy Kurt - very entertaining!

If anyones got any questions then fire away and i'll do my best to answer..
Oh yeah - bit of trivia for you. The beer bottles used for the shoot are all specially made out of very high puirity seamless glass and the LABELS for the beer bottles cost.... US$600 each. Nope thats not a typo. Expensive beer bottles !!

The guy responsible for looking after the prep of the beer bottles (Barry Conner) was the same guy hired to do all the special effects for the Sony Bravia 'Bouncy Balls' TV commercial shot in San Francisco. (never aired in the USA for some reason). That was a fantastic commercial - Europeans will all know it..

Corona are planning another set of TV commercial in this area for about the same time in 2008. May or June i think.