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Break Car glass
- Thread starter brock2621
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NickDanger
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Keep in mind the front windshield of any auto mobile is safety glass. It will not "shatter' because of plastic material imbedded in the glass. The side windows will shatter into a million pieces. You should be able to get a side window at a junk yard for around $25-50. It doesn't even have to exactly fit whatever model car you're using, although the same type window would be best.
Roll the actual window of your car down and set the victim window in place. You may need duct tape to hold the glass in place and use a tight shot to keep the tape from being in the shot. Make sure you cover as much of the car's interior with a tarp or something to catch glass. If you break a side window, you'll find fragments of the glass five years from now rolling around on the floor. The cleanup will take a while. For safety it would be best to have your actor sitting on the opposite side of the vehicle from the window being broken. I suggest a sling shot fired from a slight angle to break the glass. If the glass is hit near the corner (where the divider front and back door post is) of a real side window the whole thing will shatter out. I'm not sure about a taped on glass. The actor will be safe from the slingshot, but the flying glass...? If the actor has on sunglasses that would help. The actor could already have on whatever blood FX so when the glass breaks out it will give the appearance of the instantaniuos bullet hit.
Roll the actual window of your car down and set the victim window in place. You may need duct tape to hold the glass in place and use a tight shot to keep the tape from being in the shot. Make sure you cover as much of the car's interior with a tarp or something to catch glass. If you break a side window, you'll find fragments of the glass five years from now rolling around on the floor. The cleanup will take a while. For safety it would be best to have your actor sitting on the opposite side of the vehicle from the window being broken. I suggest a sling shot fired from a slight angle to break the glass. If the glass is hit near the corner (where the divider front and back door post is) of a real side window the whole thing will shatter out. I'm not sure about a taped on glass. The actor will be safe from the slingshot, but the flying glass...? If the actor has on sunglasses that would help. The actor could already have on whatever blood FX so when the glass breaks out it will give the appearance of the instantaniuos bullet hit.
I'm assuming that you're probably on a budget here and you're probably using a real, functioning car. If that's the case, then I'd really do this in two shots and composite them together.
Take one shot without any glass (window rolled down) -- here, your actor reacts to being shot.
Since you probably don't want to have to deal with broken glass in your car (if its a car you're actually going to use), I'd take footage of the breaking glass separately against a green screen and then composite it onto the footage you took of your actor being shot.
Otherwise, I think it's all just too dangerous unless you really know what you're doing. Putting real broken glass, slingshots, or anything else in your short film is asking for trouble in my opinion.
On the other hand, I'm incredibly new to all this -- and I have extremely little experience. So take my advice for what it's worth! And good luck!
I, for one, would like to know how you eventually end up doing this.
Take one shot without any glass (window rolled down) -- here, your actor reacts to being shot.
Since you probably don't want to have to deal with broken glass in your car (if its a car you're actually going to use), I'd take footage of the breaking glass separately against a green screen and then composite it onto the footage you took of your actor being shot.
Otherwise, I think it's all just too dangerous unless you really know what you're doing. Putting real broken glass, slingshots, or anything else in your short film is asking for trouble in my opinion.
On the other hand, I'm incredibly new to all this -- and I have extremely little experience. So take my advice for what it's worth! And good luck!
I, for one, would like to know how you eventually end up doing this.