Extreme Filming

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 6:10 am

Just wanting to know what the most extreme things people have done for their movies.

The other day for a scene I ate a handfull of live crickets!

Some other thoughts and experiences please

Post by **Matt** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 2:07 pm

Probably either

1 : Strapping a few rockets to my arm during the filming of Meet The Locals.

2 : Firing a rocket from my home-made rocket launcher without losing my eyebrows or other parts of my face!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 12:28 am

The other day getting tied up, beaten with bamboo sticks, tied to a tree and whipped and finally tied between 2 trees and stretched. What you will see is what happened, no camera tricks.
Do you know how painful suspension between trees actually is!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 1:18 am

Oh I have several...

Jumping off moving cars...
Jumping out of moving cars...
Jumping off cliffs...
Having home made explosives go off in my face...

Once I had to get 'run over' by a push bike but I tripped and the guy on the bike rode over my neck!

Once ran through a wall of flame...

In fact I have a whole load of MPEGs of these things! I'll upload them!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 3:48 am

Experimenting one day my brother dowsed myself (wearing an old arny coat) in petrol and threw a match. Results were not too bad, a little hair lost and a new hair cut for the rest of my life. My hair never grew back the same!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 1:19 pm

Ha ha! I think we all invented 'Jackass' many years before Johnny Knoxville did...

I set my hair on fire once, but it wasn't film related, it was just in my pyromaniac days where I kept setting fire to all my toys! Good times... As you've probably guessed I've got a lot of time on my hands!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 12:49 am

While filming "Dangerous Dan Jones" one scene was set on a real slope done a mountain side. Very steep and dirty. The actor had to slide 10 metres down the slope and then stop before the next ledge. I told him I would show him how do it first.
I jumped, slid and nearly went over the next ledge. I avoided death by incehes by steering myself over a much shorter jump.
In turn the actor was very scared and the fright you see on his face as he slides was very real.
But i did lead by example!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 2:36 pm

Ha ha! They say don't work with Children and Animals but they should add Cliffs to that as well...

Once when we were filming we'd just done the last shot on the side of a cliff, and started to walk back. Then the heavens opened and the rain was just pouring down. Then we found some lost kids, so we decided to direct them back to the play area where they were supposed to be, and the quickest way of doing this was to go along the site of the cliff.

Then suddenly Ben, who was holding the camera slipped in the wet mud and went sliding down the cliff, with the camera and tripod, in to the freezing water below. Luckily it wasn't that deep, but it didn't exactly break his fall, and 'cus of the rain the river was flowing really fast.

Luckily some passers by, who were stood on the now famous (;)) Shosk bridge spotted him and were more than happy to help him to safety.

Then we turned around and the lost kids were never to be seen again... (Cue dramatic music)

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 2:25 am

He he he. Filming in the side of a rock cliff once, which was very (emphasize very) steep! A friend wanted to climb up the top of it to look at some caves. He slipped and slid past the crew and myslef screaming. After a 15 metre, nearly sheer drop he was stopped luckily by a large "Do not climb" saftey sign.
The only damage was a bruised bottom!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:48 pm

Lol! Well a brused a*** is a sign of a good filming session...

Today a friend of mine reminded me of a time where a Scottish TV comedy company asked us to send them some stuff as they were looking for new program ideas, which was pretty cool. So off we went to film some random 'funny' stuff and a friend of mine suggest he run around in a field in his underware (there was a reason for this but it escapes me now).

So off he went, and I filmed away trying my hardest not to laugh, when suddenly he disappeared in to the ground! I went over to have a look and he had fallen down a small man sized hole! I was in hysterics!

Which reminds me, I'm gonna upload all this when I get the time!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 1:59 am

Filming "Mixo Joe vs The Dragon".
The Dragon (man in costume) was meant to breathe fire. I took along a can of deodorant to light up as a easy effect.
As i was lighting it though my Rabbit suit caught fire!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 10:18 pm

I used to do that deodorant flame thrower thing a lot, until I kept hearing stories about kids blowing up, as if the flame goes back inside the can you have no chance

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 2:34 am

Short controlled bursts is the secret.
We should be willing to lose a limb or 2 for our art!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 9:38 pm

Lol! Yeah well normally I am, but I'd rather loose the odd limb by doing some amazing and complicated stunt, like backflipping down the side of a skyscraper, than blowing up in a horrific deodrant accident

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:49 am

As i have said the chances of may out weigh the terrific results.

Wait until my big flame thrower tutorial is up which in it's basics is a cycle pump full of petrol!

Mushiman · Post by **Mushiman** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 4:52 pm

Hey, i'd like to see those clips Ornsack!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 12:27 am

Yeah where are the clips my dear Ornsack.

So have any other film makers got some interesting tales to tell?

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:21 am

Just dealing with the Shosk clips first... i've been so busy it's been a nightmare! But there are a few clips on my Lycos site (http://members.lycos.co.uk/ornsack

) and I do have loads on my hard drive which I send to random people when I'm bored, so I'll get them up asap!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:25 am

He he he. You guys look like a wacky bunch indeed!

Once we set up a hoop of fire (Steel hoop covered in fuel soaked rags alight) to practice some stunt rolls for height and accuracy. My brother jumped through the hoop, hit it and it fell on top of him.
Did I laugh!!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:27 pm

Ha ha! It's funny how you can laugh at brothers no matter what happens to them

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 9:23 pm

Yes, whilst we were growing up I was responsible for all the trips that both my brothers had to make to casualty.

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:22 am

Lol!! That's quite an achievement!

I remember when my sister swallowed a battery two days before we were due to go on holiday. That was a barrel of laughs!

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 7:48 am

Today I was dragged down a dirt road, 60km per hour for a 100 metres. It took 5 goes to get the shot right.
Oh the joy of it all!

Post by **Matt** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 10:08 am

Most of the dangerous stuff me and Adam have done wasn't in front of a camera unfortunately. Like the time Adam tried the "stick a match in an empty bottle of meths" experiment. The bottle was completely empty appart from a load of meths vapour. Nice explosion. Camping will never quite be the same again ....

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 9:54 pm

Lol! Remember those 'Soda-Stream' things? Once a mate of mine said "I know, I'll make a bottle of gas" (i.e. he'll turn it on without putting any liquid in the bottle) and the thing exploded with a nice blue flame, and the bottle fired out, and the machine was rendered useless. Well it was a useless machine anyway but that's not the point...