One movie effect that I strongly urge you to never try is the body-burn effect. Now, when he claps his hand to his chest, he should be able to burst the bag, causing some of the blood to seep through his shirt. (While the blood bags used for movie effects are usually constructed from condoms, they are also intended to be burst by an explosive charge.) Fill the bag with a small amount of stage blood - either bought from a stage makeup supplier or made from scratch - and tape it to the actor under his costume. If you need a bit more realism you can make “blood-bags” from water balloons or plastic baggies. For most plays, in fact, this is really all that’s needed as the gunshot itself isn’t a major plot point who did the shooting, and why, is usually more important. On stage, however, the body armor would make it hard to move about and act.Īn older and much simpler way of creating the effect of someone being shot is to simply have the actor clap a hand to his chest and drop to the stage. On a movie shoot, of course, there’s time to set all of this before starting the cameras. To protect the actor, a plate of body armor is fitted between the charge and the actor’s body. Even on film,this is a potentially dangerous effect, as it involves attaching an explosive charge to the actor and setting it off. The effect, in case you’ve never seen an action movie, is that part of the actor’s shirt or jacket explodes, spewing blood and making it look for all the world as if he’s just been shot. One movie effect we often get asked about is creating bullet-hits on an actor’s body. An interesting side effect of this approach is that the sudden change in lighting adds to the overall impact of the effect. (To date, there are no flash or fog effects that create a cloud of colored smoke.) It’s easy for the designer to get around this all she need do is light the stage in the color she wants the smoke to appear. The problem with either of those solutions, however, is that they produce a large cloud of white smoke. To get a large cloud of smoke to appear nearly instantly, the designer’s choices are limited to flash powder or a fog machine. It’s a bit trickier to create the same effect on stage, but it is possible. The thunderclap was added to the soundtrack later. Once the cloud was in place, it was a simple matter of starting the cameras and having the witch jump out of the cloud. On film, this effect was easily achieved by burning red smoke powder until a suitably large cloud of smoke had been produced. This can be especially challenging for the special effects designer, since many movie effects just won’t work in a live setting.įor example, in “The Wizard of Oz,” the wicked witch makes her dramatic first appearance from a huge cloud of red smoke that appears instantly, accompanied by a thunderclap. The challenge facing designers working on this type of play is that the director often wants to re-create, as closely as possible, the look of the movie. It seems that any movie that makes a hit at the box office stands a good chance of being brought to the live stage. Stage plays based on Hollywood movies are nothing new there have been stage productions of “The Wizard of Oz” and “Dracula” for decades now.
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