Movie Stunts and Special Effects

Movie Stunts and Special Effects

Author: Geoffrey M. Horn

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2006-12-15

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0836868404

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Describes how stunt performers, camera trickery, and computer graphics are used to create illusions of reality in movies.


Stunts

Stunts

Author: Sara Green

Publisher: Bellwether Media

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 168103591X

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Tom Cruise performed his own stunts for the film Mission Impossible: The Ghost Protocol, which included dangling 1,700 feet from the world’s tallest building! Students will explore the extreme amount of planning, equipment, training, and expertise that goes into the stunts performed in films as they dive into this action-packed title.


Stunts

Stunts

Author: Charles L. Grant

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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It happens without warning. The shadow of the wolf fails on an ordinary man, and death begins to walk within him. Everyone he hates will die. The senior class of New Jersey’s Port Richmond High School is busy planning Halloween “stunts"—practical jokes on a town-wide scale. The school’s new principal has outlawed stunts, but that won’t keep Brian Oakland and his friends out of mischief. After all, they’re not planning anything serious, nothing damaging (except to the principal’s reputation). Others have different ideas. Dominic Pastore’s waited all year for Halloween. His rifle is ready, but Dorn hasn’t decided if he’ll fire blanks or bullets. Rich little Mickie Farwood wants to pull a stunt too, but first must choose between Dorn’s danger and Brian’s innocence. None of them knows that this Halloween will alter their lives forever. The shadow of the wolf has fallen on two men. In England, visiting lecturer Evan Kendal flees a murderous madman once his best friend flees for Port Richmond and home. And in Port Richmond, in the woods that surround the town, another killer waits … waits for Halloween, when those he hates will die. At his bidding the whole town will die.


Movie Stunts & Special Effects

Movie Stunts & Special Effects

Author: Andrew Lane

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1623562740

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Throughout film history, one of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life. The image of an 'every man' engaged in hand-to-hand, mortal combat, defending his family or even the world population against an overwhelming and malevolent force, speaks to our most primal instincts and thus became a mainstay of movie entertainment. In order to translate these deep-seated fantasies to the screen, filmmakers have been developing special skills and crafts for over 100 years. It is these skills that make 'movie magic' and have allowed audiences to take part in the primal hopes and fears we all possess. Movie Stunts & Special Effects: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning and Execution is designed to inform filmmakers on how to plan for and utilize these crafts by engaging and empowering filmmakers to better communicate with stunts and effects practitioners, and thereby enabling them to more fully realize their vision. Director/Producer Andrew Lane surveys fights, use of weapons, cars and vehicles, falls, the use of pyrotechnics, atmospheric effects, bullet hits, wounds and blood, among many other categories. Factors such as cost, time to implement, safety accommodations, and assessing the competence of those employed to plan and execute stunts and special effects are numerous and very specific. Each topic in Movie Stunts & Special Effects is examined using narrative explanations and extensive interviews with world-renowned experts. Various stunts and special effects are explored in the context of how they are best captured by a camera and then editorially constituted in the final product.


The World's Most Dangerous Stunts

The World's Most Dangerous Stunts

Author: Tim O'Shei

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780736854573

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"Describes in countdown format 10 of the most dangerous stunts ever attempted"--Provided by publisher.


Humorous Political Stunts

Humorous Political Stunts

Author: Majken Jul Sørensen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 9188061019

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A group of anti-conscription activists break into a prison, demanding to be jailed together with their friend already locked up because of his beliefs. Clowns from the rebel clown army mimic police sent to control political protests. Visiting Santas hand out presents taken from shop shelves without the approval of the shopping centre management. These are examples of humorous political stunts - public actions, hoaxes and happenings that confront systems of power. This book contains many amusing stories of such stunts, showing the boldness and creativity of the activists. Interviews and documents are used to show how humour can facilitate outreach, mobilisation and a culture of resistance. Humorous Political Stunts combines insights from the fields of nonviolence and humour studies and makes theoretical contributions to each area.


Dangerous Stunts

Dangerous Stunts

Author: Jonny Zucker

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1781477280

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Full Flight non-fiction is a series of books for reluctant readers. Want to be on TV? Find out all about Stunt Artists and Escape Artists in this exciting guide to the world of Dangerous Stunts! From Bond movies to Martial Arts, Houdini to David Blaine, there's something for everyone inside.