Creating Special Effects for TV and Film |
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action actors animation appear arrow background Bernard Wilkie black powder bottles Bowden cable BULLET EFFECTS bullet hit burning camera lens capsule caption cast Chroma Key clay clear plastic clothing cobwebs colour Colour Separation Overlay Compressed air constructed create cut-out detonator devices disc display drum dry ice electric expanded polystyrene explosive film fire effect Flame forks flash flash powder flat frame front fuse give glass fibre gunpowder heated holes ignition illuminated knife lamp latex light liquid metal method mirror mixture Model shots nylon operated painted paper periscope photographs picture pieces placed Plaster of paris plastic sheet plate position potassium nitrate poured powder produce projected projectile projector props pyrofuse released resin rotating scene scenery scenic screen sequences simulate smoke gun solenoid special effects speed studio suitable superimposed surface switch tank techniques telecine tube usually vases weight window wire