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Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Special Effects needed

For the shoot, we are going to be using the effects of a smoke bomb. This is not a real bomb, but a chemical reaction with simple household objects to make a desired effect of smoke in the area.
I will be making a total of three to four of these smoke bombs in case will we be needing additional effects.

Here is the link for instructions on how to make a smoke bomb:

If the video doesn't work, here is the list of ingredients and simple instructions I will be following.
A pan
Aluminum foil
Scoop of Baking soda
200g Sugar
300g Potassium Nitrate (fertiliser stores)
Matches
Stove
Mixing sticks
Red Dye
A cup
A fuse, firework or string preferable.

Method:
1. Light the stove and place the pan over it.
2. Add three parts potassium to two parts sugar and add baking soda because we want it to rise. We will also add dye to make the smoke colored.
3. Mix the sugar until it liquifies into a caramel
4. Take out the mixture and place it onto the aluminum foil
5. Wrap it up tightly and put the foil in a cup, placing sticks into the mixture to allow it to aerate. Wait until it is cooled. Place the fuse into the mixture at this point.
6. When cooled, wrap tightly and ignite when ready with the fuse.

The smoke bomb should be complete

The hazards of this could be any athsmatic crew and actors inhaling the smoke and having an attack but luckily,  most of the crew are not and the ones who are have safety measures in place to counter the effects of the smoke bomb.

Herre is the link for this - http://www.metacafe.com/watch/517953/mnkjbniul/

Friday, 12 March 2010

Prop Pictures

The prop below is the only prop we have used in the entire 2 minutes of film, it is the sword Gianni used to kill Hayden.


Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Gianni Aquazi - Based on Genesis Rhapsodos

I have loosely based my character Gianni on a character from the game final fantasy 7 crisis core, Genesis Rhapsodos. He is a character who is never interupted when speaking and is never lost for words, thus i have made my characters dialogue more poetical and fast flowing based on Genesis's constant quotes from what originated as a book of poems and was then adapted into a play called 'LOVELESS'. - http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/LOVELESS

I feel that this gives the character a mysterious edge and gives him more power in language over Hayden Astley, which is important as Gianni should be the character with the majority of power and dominance over all aspects in this 2 minute production.



Genesis Rhapsodos - http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/e/e1/Cc-genesis-rhapsodos.jpg