MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

This idea makes no sense. Try getting a test video up or something.

Icing? How would that work, its sticky.

For Cocaine , just use flour. You can stick your face in a bag of it and make all kinds of snorting and sniffing sounds without actually ingesting the floor.. and when you look up it'll look good with all of it clinging to your face like Scarface. Sugar wont really work good for that, but sugar is a...

lots of candies look like lsd or ecstacy.

right down my street is a small airport which has an authentic C-47 d-day plane, just thought for anyone that was making a WW2 flimitd be great Im from MA too btw. Is it that airport that always has concerts right next to it? You shood really check out Battle Ship Cove in Fall River, Ma if your eve...

yah i too heard about this a while back and have been wondering too when it was coming out. Looks like its going to be a goodie.

You shood do a scene where a guy gets his adams apple ripped out or eyes. That would look cool if your looking to do a violent movie. You should stick basic stuff too(punches, kicks, jumps, hand movements).

I think that idea would be extremely hard, unless you have friends that know choreography like that.

For our tests, we used baby powder instead of the talcon powder you used. Do you think one is better to use for this effect than the other?

Yah the squibs we made made wernt even that tightly compacted so thats mainly why there was no blood seen. Condoms do work very good, and they can hold alot more than what we used.

All we had were the finger parts of a rubber glove as the squibs and some firecrackers. Yes it did come out horrible, but we were basically doing those for fun. Yah we were p*** too that you coodnt see anyblood except for the first one wich sprayed pretty far if you were there in person(cant really ...

yah its pretty decent for a first camera.

Idk why i didnt think of that before, fishing line wood be perfect. Also, how did u guys hide the person pulling the string? Would he hide in a part of the woods that had alot of camo? Or did you film him out of shot?

how do you guys do ground hits without showing the string?

Me and DEDFX tried out this bullet hit method yesterday. They came out ok, but not as good as yours because we had no powder. We used this sand-like gravel and dirt. I have to say its kinda hard to get the timing down too. I guess we need more practice if we're going to perfect it. Tree hits were al...

Canons are great. I want one myself. I have a Nikon Coolpics 3200. Its ok you can laugh. I wanna get a better one though soon.

These are very good shots. What kind of camera do you have?

the explosion was the best part
liked how you added in peter frampton too

Do you think it would look bad using red powder to do a blood/mist effect instead of using white powder?

Basically, I emptied out a party popper and put different amounts of talcon powder in (more for ground shots, less for bullet hits) then gaffer tape to the body, extended the string with a shoestring or nylon string (depending on the length needed) and pull! I have been out and made some more so i'...

Those look awsome. Reminds me of SPR for some reason. Im guessing you used some kind of powder?

Anybody think spray painted cap guns are a good/inexpensive alternative for pistols if your going to add the sound digitally?

Garry King said squibs cost more, like sometimes $1,000 each... remember =JDL=?¿ ya, you can make a blood effect non-digitally without CGI, or squibs. Im not just talking about gunshot wounds, im talking about anything. But in the end i think this all comes down to opinion. Some people lile CGI....

I dont have many actors for my war movie. I was thinking of adding audio to make it sound like there is more people(yelling,screaming,thuds,etc.). Anybody have any more tips for me? Record some people screaming and yelling about a dozen times. Then put them together in editing. Ya i might try somet...

maj_barnes wrote:

=JDL= wrote:CGI costs alot more too.

It cost more to get a squib set up than to add a smoke puff or blood.

How do you figure? What about computer software expenses? Last i heard they cost a butt load of money. Not everone uses squibs either.