Try my special effect ideas.

[MrJeff]

Try my special effect ideas.

I got a few cool ideas on special effects for war films or action films.

granade or mine explosion: Get a piece of ply wood and a rock and a bunch of dirt. Make the work rest on the rock to its like a teeter totter. put all the durt on the end touching the ground. Cover up the teeter totter with maybe brown blanket or seomthing. Have an actor run and step on the wood end pointing up. the dirt and dust should fly everywhere and just have the actor jump or roll down a hill or something after. I've seen it done before. It looks really cool.


Bullet holes in walls: Have a wall of anything. Dry wall. Make a hole in it. Cover the hole with some paper and rocks and dirt behind it. Have a guy with a hammer behind the wall hit the hole filled with rocks.

For stabing a person: Get syrifome (spelling:S) get a cooky sheet, metal thing. Put it unter the actors shirt. Get a knife and make it really really dall. Put blood packets on the syrifome under the sh*t. Have the guy stamb the actor and it will look like its going into the actor with blood pooring out.

For gun shot hit: if you have a vacuum with reverce on it. attach a water hose to the vacuum hose with tape or something. put blood or dust in hose and start vacuum.

I haven't tried the vacuum thing. Tell me how it works out.
I would also like to know how to make good bullet hits on the ground. causing dirt and dust to fly up. Like in the movie saving private ryan. When running dirt and dust fly up around them. How could i do this with out explosives. Maybe the vacuum thing again?

[Mommy's Little Monster]

For the bullet hits in the ground you can use the same method as with the mine explosion, only use popsicle sticks. Have your actor hit them as they run and voila, you have bullet hits. I think speilberg used this method when he was a kid making his 8mm movies.

[scitek]

Mommy's said:

For the bullet hits in the ground you can use the same method as with the mine explosion, only use popsicle sticks. Have your actor hit them as they run and voila, you have bullet hits. I think speilberg used this method when he was a kid making his 8mm movies.

Can you explain a little further? Sounds interesting...

[Mommy's Little Monster]

it's a pretty simple effect really. Just make a bunch of little teeter totters out of a popsicle stick and a small rock and cover one end with dirt. Once you step on them you will have dirt flinging into the air making it seem as if a bullet just hit the ground. Have them dotted all around the path where your actor will be running this way he is gaurenteed to hit a bunch no matter how big or small his stride is and whether or not he runs straight.