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MOTION PICTURE SPECIAL EFFECTS xx MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY xx SPECIAL EFFECTS PHOTOGRAPHY A look at stop-motion photography and the strange special effects that can be created using it. Can't make double exposures, lap dissolves or do tricks on Super 8? Here's how to get around some of Super 8's limitations. Special effects for motion pictures, straight fade, smoke fade, and self-typing "spook-operated" typewriter. Creating special motion picture effects by shooting through glass panels. How to shoot movies of a kaleidoscope's changing patterns. Special effects which an amateur can do with a movie camera. Includes time lapse, live title, double wipe, animation, stop motion and traveling mask. How to achieve multiple images in movie making. Creating space images by filming falling objects against a black background. How to create abstracts of moving lights by filming them through patterned glass or prisms. Techniques for showing the passage of time in your movies. How to stretch time out or compress time through slow motion. How to use close-up and cutaways in order to build mood and pace. Movie magic. Part 1. How to use simple stop-and-go filming to create disappearing subjects, ghost images, double identities, etc. Movie magic. Part 2. Use a mask to do split-frame filming. Shoot half of the image, rewind the film, then shoot the other half. Tips on doing multiple-segment images and lap-dissolves. Acetate (heavy clear or frosted plastic) can be used to dissolve or fade from one scene to the next, and by bending the acetate, a hallucinatory effect is achieved. Tip: Use silver glitter and burning cigarettes to create rain and/or mist. Tip: Instead of smoke bombs, use crushed "Snake Lites" to produce thick, black smoke. Tip: Use raw hamburger and fake blood (or ketchup, if you want to eat the meat later) to simulate an open side wound. In this interview, Rod Eaton gives tips on building and filming special effects. Tips on creating smoke and fiery effects, and how to explode miniature models. Use flour and clay to simulate a monster turning to dust. Achieve glowing effects by using the non-toxic chemicals in chemical emergency lights/markers. Create a swarm of birds or bees using moving cels in an old picture frame. Tip: A flaming meteor can be simulated by filming a piece of burning thread in fast motion. Making and detonating a "flat pack" to simulate an explosion. Create a UFO that shoots down jets without even backwinding the film. Tip: To simulate a skinned knee, spread a little household cleanser on the knee then add a few drops of watered-down ketchup. How to build a miniature moon base and a spaceship taking off and landing. Use a matte box to create the illusion of a hand disappearing or other startling effects. Tip: Use dry ice to create interesting sounds as well as visual effects. Tip: Create the illusion of a burning house with red and orange cellophane in the windows fluttering in a fan breeze and spotted from the inside. Create monsterous encounters and strange optical effects with cut-out photographs. Includes the use of photographs as backdrops, props, actors, in wipes, etc. Simulate electrical shock with burning steel wool. Use rubber cement to make "spider webs" for your film. Use malt flavored Ovaltine to simulate an alien planet surface. How to make a candle appear to light by itself. Tip: Make a simple fade in or out by breathing heavily on the lens and fogging it over. Put a flashlight and mirror in a "ray gun" to simulate it firing. Superimpose fantastic ray effects over live-action with the inexpensive "Zap Box". Create "chest burster" stunts or saw an actor in half by using plaster body casts. How to make a realistic gunshot wound to the head and face. Tip: To illustrate the after-effects of a laser on its victim, have the actor hold cigarette smoke in his mouth, and then open his mouth without exhaling. How to build a miniature city, and film it in the midst of night battle. Tips on dazzling effects from candles that can be produced using lap dissolve, single-frame, and filters. Build an inexpensive matte box with bellows to create dramatic in-camera visual effects. Est. cost: $25. A look at ways to solve special effects problems. How to "cook" a hand in boiling oil and make a dismembered hand "walk". Tips on simulating anti-aircraft flak, tracer bullets and bomb explosions. Create colorful clouds inside an aquarium filled with water. Use as a background when filming models and miniatures. Tips on combining time-lapse clouds with normal speed people and cars using backwind and a matte box. Tip: Burn incense tablets or charcoal briquettes for good smoke effects. Use red Jello and red food coloring for good blood clot and other internal body effects. Plant forms and reverse filming are simple and easy ways to simulate B-movie monsters. Tip: Flat, rough cork can simulate realistic alien landscape when panned over with a movie camera. Build a special effects box using a beam splitter and two rear-projection screens. Use to produce mattes or titling shots. How to shoot a nighttime scene during the daytime using day-for-night filming techniques. Tips on combining laser beam effects with live action footage. Create a fight or murder scene without makeup through the use of shadows. Use a can of shaving cream to produce the proper sized bubbles in "undersea" model filming. Make cross-screen wipes by splicing film ends together at an extreme diagonal angle. Make a car appear to fly by attaching a model car to a piece of plate glass. A review of special effects used in commercials. Feasible fantasy. How to create a convincing science fiction video on a low budget. Burning, bleeding, floating and flying. Simple, low-cost special effects for video. | |||||||||
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