our Cup O Noodles Japanese commercial is live-on air!

Hello Friends & Kennel fans! We're here, back in Wisconsin visiting friends & family.

I just got an email with the link to view the Cup O Noodles commercial. (Sorry, I'm not in it, already I've had a few emails asking "where are you?"...this was a shoot for the dogs!)I ran them, John ran them, we had help from handlers Chad & Thomas (thank you guys!) and my mother was visiting also there to assist (thank you mum!) ...

I am so excited to share with you! It's live on air in Japan right now. My lead dog Bridle, (white dog) looks so good working the lead position with handsome boy, Clyde. She is a large female anyway and strong. Very excitable girl. We worked on this commercial for a total of 12 days with our sled dogs. Here you'll view a fast paced 8-10 seconds of sledding footage from our home trails! You can't even begin to imagine the time, money & creative energy involved in creating/directing/filming/editing/producing a commercial of this caliber. It's truly incredible and completely insane! Between working with this crew from Japan in March for their commercial that last seconds--literally, and the film crew from London last April for their 1 hour (our 8 minute segment) documentary.....Whoa, I learned a lot!

Having been a professional fashion model, I thought I knew about this kind of thing. I certainly wasn't off by a long shot but my god; it's amazing what they can do between the field and the edit room and the incredible budget to make it all come together... All for our (the peoples) entertainment!!

All the people we worked with were more than gracious, very very interesting, focused and passionate about their job. I love to see the passion & share the energy!

The first few scenes were filmed on Summit Lake. The two teams below camera, then two teams coming at camera head on.
The next scene (musher dumping sled) takes place near Paxson Lodge off the airstrip behind the pit (we must have worked this shot with over 45 loops through the woods and back before getting it just so)and for the very last scene with tents and dogs camped out (that's Wilbur standing up), this is 1/2 mile from our home on Paxson Lk.

I am told by our Japanese musher friends that this actor in the CF is Takuya Kimura -- one of the most popular actors in Japan.

Enjoy! zoya & kennel

http://www.nissinfoods.co.jp/product/cm/index.html

Scroll Down to the Commercial (Dream!) It's all in Japanese!