Comments on: Stunts http://www.fxphd.com/blog/99/stunts the latest happenings in and around fxphd Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:55:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Monosporto http://www.fxphd.com/blog/99/stunts#comment-141 Monosporto Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:42:17 +0000 http://blog.fxphd.com/blog/blog/2007/06/09/stunts/#comment-141 About 2 years ago - while filming our very first comedy show - myself and a female actor had to be shot in the belly. For me we did some out-of-frame shooting and just let some blood flow from between my hands. But the actress was shot with pyrofx and fake blood, attached underneath her bathing suit. There were 2 companies that were asked to rig her, and production chose the cheapest one. Due to some very, very, very big mistake by the sfx team she was rigged wrongly and the explosions went of against her skin. She is fine, luckily (we celebrated her birthday yesterday :)). But this could have gone wrong in the worst way ever. So: don't ever, ever, take the cheap guys. Or guys who say: "oh, I can do that as well." I know this sounds very logically, but everybody knows that decisions have to be made according to the budget, etc etc. And it's so easy to assume nothing will go wrong. Just thought I'd share this with everybody. grtz Monosporto About 2 years ago - while filming our very first comedy show - myself and a female actor had to be shot in the belly. For me we did some out-of-frame shooting and just let some blood flow from between my hands.
But the actress was shot with pyrofx and fake blood, attached underneath her bathing suit.

There were 2 companies that were asked to rig her, and production chose the cheapest one.
Due to some very, very, very big mistake by the sfx team she was rigged wrongly and the explosions went of against her skin.

She is fine, luckily (we celebrated her birthday yesterday :)). But this could have gone wrong in the worst way ever.

So: don’t ever, ever, take the cheap guys. Or guys who say: “oh, I can do that as well.”

I know this sounds very logically, but everybody knows that decisions have to be made according to the budget, etc etc. And it’s so easy to assume nothing will go wrong.

Just thought I’d share this with everybody.

grtz
Monosporto

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