Blank Firing Guns
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Blank Firing Guns
Here's something that doesn't require a computer or anything else. Blank firing guns. All I have ever seen is just pistols. When I turn 18, I'll buy like 10 of these. I never ever seen a blank firing machine gun. I'm thinking you take a real gun and put blank ammo in the clip and shoot away. Has anybody seen a blank firing machine gun?
I'm no expert but I to fire blanks a gun must be modified. Normal bullets generate lots of back pressure which re-cocks the gun ready to fire the next round. Blanks don't generate enough pressure so you can't fire blanks in a machine gun .... unless its got an attachment on the barrel to increase the pressure. Or something like that
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Machine gun blanks
Hey guess what, on the movie the matrix neo fires a blank fireing machine gun on the helocopter.
it's all cool.
it's all cool.
Tears Of The Sun
Today I just saw Tears Of The Sun staring Bruce Willis. Its a war movie. I saw many shells coming of machine guns meaning that they use blank firing machine guns. I just wounder how they do it.
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
In Terminator 2 Judgment Day, at the end at Cyberdyne Systems when Arnold shoots the GE M134 Mini Gun, you can see shells. And on the DVD you can see the weapons they used and most of them are blank firing guns including the GE M134 Mini Gun. So there is a way of shooting blanks from a machine gun.
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Blanks are cool, just expensive and in some places illigal, If guns are I would think blanks are to. A blank is just a shell with pouder and primer, that is criped at the top. So the gun fires away, just noting comes out, exsept brass. But that is still dangerus. Jason Lee died from a misfired blank.
Also any movie with guns that James Camron made, Termenator, Alieans the guns are fireing mass amounts of blanks.
Also any movie with guns that James Camron made, Termenator, Alieans the guns are fireing mass amounts of blanks.
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I love that bit of Terminator. *Memories from that night the other day when they had Termy 2 on after that Termy documentary (in the UK)*
"You promised you wouldn't killy anybody"
"Trust me"
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"Look out, he's got a minigun!"
*minigun noise*plrdrpdlrordlrrrrre
"Ahhhh!"
I liked that. Anyway, back to the subject, just because you see a shell flying out, why does that mean they used a blank firerer? Couldn't they have just animated the shell?
"You promised you wouldn't killy anybody"
"Trust me"
...
"Look out, he's got a minigun!"
*minigun noise*plrdrpdlrordlrrrrre
"Ahhhh!"
I liked that. Anyway, back to the subject, just because you see a shell flying out, why does that mean they used a blank firerer? Couldn't they have just animated the shell?
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I appreciate that y'all are trying to create the best hollywood effects on a no-budget basis, and good on you - Pushes the frontiers forward a bit more for future film-makers, but ("Oh god, here we go again", they are thinking) you can do this old-school, and even use an empty water pistol!
If you dub the sound of a machine gun in, as the actor is firing it, you'll usually fool the audience, without having to have the empty shells flying out of the gun! Try it - you'll see it works! Sound is very important in movies, which is why hollywood goes crazy on dubbing (Car tyre screeches, whooshes, and the like)
Then have a clip on the effect of what the gun is doing (Bullets splattering against a wall - something you can do with squibs, and things (See other posts for that)), then cut back to the actor with the machine gun! Viewers just wouldn't know the difference! After all, most people are not film technicians, and don't really know how guns work - "You put a bullet in, shoot the gun, and the bullet hits something!"
of course, if you can film it using shells, good on you!
Don't swap bullets around in guns! Only use bullets that are specifically created for the gun! I'd go against using blank bullets in a real gun, even if the bullets were specifically intended for the gun! What if one of the bullets got mixed up! Also, there have been instances in Hollywood, when blanks have mis-fired, causing catastrophic catastrophies!
If you have an action scene, the viewer is going to be focused on what's happening at the moment, and not on "Why are there no shells coming out of the gun".
If you dub the sound of a machine gun in, as the actor is firing it, you'll usually fool the audience, without having to have the empty shells flying out of the gun! Try it - you'll see it works! Sound is very important in movies, which is why hollywood goes crazy on dubbing (Car tyre screeches, whooshes, and the like)
Then have a clip on the effect of what the gun is doing (Bullets splattering against a wall - something you can do with squibs, and things (See other posts for that)), then cut back to the actor with the machine gun! Viewers just wouldn't know the difference! After all, most people are not film technicians, and don't really know how guns work - "You put a bullet in, shoot the gun, and the bullet hits something!"
of course, if you can film it using shells, good on you!
Don't swap bullets around in guns! Only use bullets that are specifically created for the gun! I'd go against using blank bullets in a real gun, even if the bullets were specifically intended for the gun! What if one of the bullets got mixed up! Also, there have been instances in Hollywood, when blanks have mis-fired, causing catastrophic catastrophies!
If you have an action scene, the viewer is going to be focused on what's happening at the moment, and not on "Why are there no shells coming out of the gun".
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