MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

how in the hell can you afford a camera, and tapes, and such but you can't buy a $25 sign?

Hey, Just want you to know that we are using a lot of effects similar to this in our next flick. It's very convincing at pretty much any angle, and if you really wanna top it all off, we put a compressed air squibb under the sponge as well. When the actor pulls out the *insert item here* tap the squ...

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for real ,just rent (or buy) the movie BAD TASTE.
Watch the first few minutes of it.
The opening scene is a guy getting his head shot in half with a .44 mag.
...eeets so simple.

like, I found out how to make a mask, but how do i make the mask change shape as the movie progresses?

can you elaborate on that a little bit more?

Ok, I just got after effects. I'm a little discouraged because I have no fuggin clue what is going on. It's very different than i had anticipated. All I want to do right now is remove some wires from a shot. Could anyone here help me do this? And while your at it maybe throw me a good AE tutorial if...

jesus...doesnt sound like you really have much of a movie planned out at all...haha

That's one of the drawbacks of these forums, they are helpful.

BUT finding stuff like that and making it on your own is half the fun of filmmaking.

hey
hmm
http://cookie.moonside.org/MovieSTuffsandStuff
Just go there, and lookit all my stuffs.

it should work.

See children, this is how we get horribly sidetracked. http://cookie.moonside.org/MovieSTuffsandStuff/Holysweetlord.wmv Thats the one that almost took my pals head off. http://cookie.moonside.org/MovieSTuffsandStuff/rockets.wmv Thats a larger video, it has 5 different shots. But yeah we were having ...

Slight progress, I din't get to work on it that much because, despite my plans my dad needed the compressor for work and i couldnt get my hands on it til sunday. I've got a huge list of how NOT to do it though. It's just a matter of getting it right. And waiting for my paycheck. While waiting for th...

DUDE OF COURSE I'm going to use more gore whaddaraya fuggin nuts?! I'm a big gorehound, in the final shot I plan on making a prosthetic piece of "skin" thatll go on my actors back, when the squibb goes off, it'll blow it up in shards, then I'm going to have two or three of the squibB "...

well it is stuffed with sponge right now waht we have to do is break the main hose off into a "Y" fitting and then we'll run the two hoses into either side of the circle. The problem we have is that when it is upright the air doesntt push the lower squibb chutes out, so this will evenly di...

yeah thats the problem.
BUT, we've already gota good fix for it.
I'll test it out this week, if not then this weekend.

This stuff is kinda simple... like for the "bullet time" effect just watch "SNIPER with tom berenger" They practically invented "following a bullet" shots. They had an actual slug attached to a glass rod ( i think) and they just slid it across frame, then sped it up. Fo...

http://cookie.moonside.org/shotgun.WMV Hey well we rigged this thing up in about 10 minutes. Cost me bout 5 bucks. this is just a compressed air squibb on a larger scale. this model has some prollems BUT when i get the final version together i'll host pictures and stuff. I think this is gonna work

ok my friend had the best Idea that I've heard so far. Lemme share it with ya. we'll make a standard issue compressed air squibb. but at the end of the hose we'll attach some pvc pipe, small pvc pipe. ONTO which we'll attache several "Y" fittings. it'll be kinda like a spiderweb fo "Y...

how do you remove the wire in post?
This baffles me I really have no idea how it would be done...

would the fishing line be very visible and obvious??

pop a ballon what in the hell are you talking about?

no..look

http://www.boomspeed.com/stan_cook/bewm.JPG

There, that is the effect I'm going for.
I already got the shotgun blast covered
and the soundeffects and everything, i just dont konw how to make his back explode.

ok everyone knows that the easiest way to tell if a movie is completely amateur is horrible sound quality.

I really dont want that.
But my camera doesnt have a microphone in jack.

Is there a way I could record sound digitally and then import it into my comp?

what equipment would i need to do this??

OK, I'm trying to make a scene where a guy breaks a zombie over by jamming the shotgun in his stomache and then blows a hole in the zombie. BASICALLY all i need for the effect is a GIANT Squibb or something for the zombies back to blow off...but I'm at a loss I have ZERO ideas on how to do this. I d...

that looks pretty good, i would need like 2 different ones possibly three the wind would be blowing from left to right in the shot. and the smoke needs to be moving pretty slow cuase they are REALLY far int he background. but yeah ash_evildead2002@yahoo.com Email me or something btw how would i add ...

btw what program would i use to do that?

i was talking about the smoke in teh distance I can make fire, I live out in the boondocks where it is legal to have giant bonfires, thats not a problem i do that s*** all the time, i just didn't nkow if there was a good way to do it in the computer...to make it look realistic (the far away fires ta...

ok at the end of my movie i want to have a scene where a character looks out over the horizon, and he sees giant smoke plumes in the distance. like scattered around, and he himself is burning stuff (can't tell you what or itd ruin the movie) but yeah is there any specific way of doing this? I really...