What Are You Working On?

[Andreas Fernbrant]

I'm in pre production for my extreme sports movie. Plan to shoot with RED.

 

[number6]

Hey #6. I'll trade you one blown up house shot for a house.

Thanks for the offer, but it has to be "THE" bloun up house. Got any experience with dynamite?

 

[number6]

I´m glad you´re not Roland Emmerich. ;-)

Jochen

Jochen, I'm not familiar... enlighten me please.

 

[planet e]

shooting a triathlon fbroadcast, negotiating a new infomercial for a hair salon franchise, shooting a documentary about a monk, shooting a fund-raising video for a water lawyer who wants to influence water policy, shooting a product demo for a firefighters' trade show. all fun projects. first RED project will, we hope, be the feature-length version of the water documentary, if the fund-raising short turns out well.....

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Take a camera and get some stock footage lol.

An idea was to take HV20, but in Vienna still didn't arrive. At the middle of the next week. Too late for Ibiza.
I'll bring 3 photo cameras, 2 DSLRs with a lot of lenses and one compact digital for a beach and underwater. Enough for now.

 

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

Jochen, I'm not familiar... enlighten me please.

Roland Emmerich! Godzilla. Independence Day. Day after Tomorrow.
LOts of smashing of buildings by all kinds of ahm..... beings?

My secret weapon against jet lag. No matter how tired, on arrival watch anything by Roland. Keeps me awake until its ok to go to bed (except one time I fell asleep in a Santa Monica multiplex the first minute the lizard wasn´t smashing anything.)

Jochen

 

[Pol Turrents]

An idea was to take HV20, but in Vienna still didn't arrive. At the middle of the next week. Too late for Ibiza.
I'll bring 3 photo cameras, 2 DSLRs with a lot of lenses and one compact digital for a beach and underwater. Enough for now.

If not, take a plane or a boat and in a while you can be in Barcelona!
Here I can invite you to drink!

 

[Tom Lowe]

shooting a triathlon broadcast, negotiating a new infomercial for a hair salon franchise, shooting a documentary about a monk, shooting a fund-raising video for a water lawyer who wants to influence water policy, shooting a product demo for a firefighters' trade show. all fun projects. first RED project will, we hope, be the feature-length version of the water documentary, if the fund-raising short turns out well.....

Heh-heh. I think this wins for most interesting.

 

[Jaime Vallés]

My brother and I are hard at work on the screenplay for our next feature. If all goes well, we should have a 1st draft done by August 1. Cross your fingers for us!

 

[pat@hpnc.com]

Good idea for a thread.

For me I am just finishing up writing a short to do that will be to work out some animation and VFX ideas with the HD workflow.

 

[Finner]

Thanks for the offer, but it has to be "THE" bloun up house. Got any experience with dynamite?

For the safety of anyone willing to actually work with you don't use dynamite you will kill someone. Dynamite packs a punch but does very little for actual visual effect.

What you want is air cannons with debris to blow out the windows, a few black powder bombs with squib match head ignitors placed in the bottom of mortors then covered with bags of gas to give you some big fireball gas bombs and for final effect stratigically wrap detination cord and some detenation frisbee's around some of the roof after you have cut away some of the roof supports. This will give you the ability to blow the roof right off and any experienced SPFX man will be able to place explosives that will direct the roof where they want it to go.n I have my pyro explosives ticket but for some reason I don't see the two of us working together that well so I will have to take a pass on this one. I can recomend some qualified friends I have in LA though. You would roughly be looking at a 15-25K charge to have it done.

 

[Babu Kantamneni]

I think Finner and #6 should have a drink together and get over the love they have for eachother.
babu

 

[Finner]

Ya there is a little bit of sexual tension in our relationship!

 

[wshultz]

What do those air cannon look like, Finner. Are these custom made devices hooked to conventional air compressors? I'd like to find some info on those "safer" devices. Thanks.

 

[Finner]

Air cannons are simply a large metal tank (like a large old propane tank) that have the valve removed and replaced with a large diameter electronic selenoid valve. You fill these tanks with a high pressure of air via a tapped in air valve (tire valve). Attatched to the end of the electronic selenoid is a plastic or metal horn shaped device that flares out to the front and that is what you fill with fullers dust, soft fake rocks or cork and other safe debris. From there when you are ready for the effect you just trip the electronic selenoid valve and boom instant effect that looks like an explosion and is relatively safe.

 

[number6]

For the safety of anyone willing to actually work with you don't use dynamite you will kill someone. Dynamite packs a punch but does very little for actual visual effect.

What you want is air cannons with debris to blow out the windows, a few black powder bombs with squib match head ignitors placed in the bottom of mortors then covered with bags of gas to give you some big fireball gas bombs and for final effect stratigically wrap detination cord and some detenation frisbee's around some of the roof after you have cut away some of the roof supports. This will give you the ability to blow the roof right off and any experienced SPFX man will be able to place explosives that will direct the roof where they want it to go.n I have my pyro explosives ticket but for some reason I don't see the two of us working together that well so I will have to take a pass on this one. I can recomend some qualified friends I have in LA though. You would roughly be looking at a 15-25K charge to have it done.

Finner, thanks for the input. Was actually thinking about taping the cracks and windows and filling it with propane, then setting off one of those electronic pilot lights. Have you, or do you know anyone who has experience with butane or propane explosions? This will be in the storyline, so it would be accurate if it was actually done this way.

I'm thinking if I do my oun house, it should pretty much just explode in all directions (brick veneer built in 1966 using soft uncured pine for framing... the roof is cedar shake put on top of asphalt shingles, so would probably offer more resistance than the walls.) If I can talk one of my brothers into trading his house for mine, that might cause a different result because that house was built in the '30s or '40s and is made of heavy cured lumber that is so hard you can't even drive a nail in it without starting a hole with a drill. My brother's house actually fits the character better than my oun, but he may not can be talked in to trading.

 

[number6]

Ya there is a little bit of sexual tension in our relationship!

Do you have a house? Would you consider marriage if my film(s) don't sell? Dibs on top (bunk! you gutterly minded sex fienner).

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

If not, take a plane or a boat and in a while you can be in Barcelona!
Here I can invite you to drink!

I know Barcelona a little bit. My favorite area is near Gothic Quarter Raval & La Ribera in Barcelona where I stay always.
Have a look at one of my slideshow about Barcelona about La Boqueria Market

LINK>>

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[Finner]

First off a propane explosion will give you very little effect as it happens so fast, Not to mention that it is way to dangerous and you would never get a permit for it (If you do it without a permit you will be charged get a huge fine and may even do some prison time). Movies and effects are smoke and mirrors. No one actually blows up a real house. Explosions are not one big bang but a series of multiple smaller safer explosions that add drama and layers to the effect. They build a shell that looks like the set house and blow that up. I really am wasting my time saying this but your plans for the camera and movie are way over your head. For the kind of movie you will put together with your expereince and plans for 2 cameras with no support gear and only 1 lense each it will not matter 1 bit if you do a $100,000 dollar SPFX house explosion or a cheap CGI version. I am sure that will go in one ear and out the other so just try and not kill someone as it will help keep your prison time lower if you do not. Please call me when you are in jail as I am interested in buying your cameras from you at 25cents on the dollar.

 

[Jason Francois]

First off a propane explosion will give you very little effect as it happens so fast, Not to mention that it is way to dangerous and you would never get a permit for it (If you do it without a permit you will be charged get a huge fine and may even do some prison time). Movies and effects are smoke and mirrors. No one actually blows up a real house. Explosions are not one big bang but a series of multiple smaller safer explosions that add drama and layers to the effect. They build a shell that looks like the set house and blow that up. I really am wasting my time saying this but your plans for the camera and movie are way over your head. For the kind of movie you will put together with your expereince and plans for 2 cameras with no support gear and only 1 lense each it will not matter 1 bit if you do a $100,000 dollar SPFX house explosion or a cheap CGI version. I am sure that will go in one ear and out the other so just try and not kill someone as it will help keep your prison time lower if you do not. Please call me when you are in jail as I am interested in buying your cameras from you at 25cents on the dollar.

Yes, what he said.