Creating fake dust / and silhouette-in-doorway shot

jeff jassky said:
right.. you would need a perfect air/dust mixture throught the entire "Explosive" area. If it's too dense with dust, it won't explode.. and if it's too dense with air it won't explode.... anyway..


This topic has reached its prime and I think we can consider it closed :)

Thanks everyone for your help. My little "story" thing is almost finished up..

It's about a guy with OCD that needs to fix his leaky water spigot. It it actually pans out I'll post a link on this thread when it's done.

Thanks guys!

- Jeff
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Then closed it shall be. Good luck with your project, and I hope you can use some of the suggestions here. Please post the work, I am interested in seeing it.
 
I wanted to second the earlier comment about Fullers Earth. This is what is used on sets to create dust/ used to dust down cars to get rid of their natural shine. It is available in various thicknesses, and if you are shooting again with a budget that merits buying the stuff, I would go for it. They also make little shooter devices that can pump the stuff out, and when backlight, it is quite impressive. Hope to see some of your footage soon.
 
thanks profnoxin. I'll keep that in mind for anything I ever to dith a budget :). This thing is just a thing for practice. I might be helping shoot a really basic commercial over the next few days too.

Thanks guys :)

-Jeff
 
Get some chlakboard erasers...erase a bunch of chalk, take two, smack them together a few times: LOTS OF DUST, not flammable, and reflects light very well. Try colored chalk too for a vaired approach.

VERY FINE particulate matter, so it hangs in the air for LONG periods of time.

Used this to film the red dots of a laser sight on a short a couple months back. It allowed the laser to show up like a thin red line; the particulate in the air reflects the beam allowing it to be seen. Uner low light conditions you couldn't "see" the dust. Under high light conditions it looked like dust.
 
Focus This! said:
Get some chlakboard erasers...erase a bunch of chalk, take two, smack them together a few times: LOTS OF DUST, not flammable, and reflects light very well. Try colored chalk too for a vaired approach.

VERY FINE particulate matter, so it hangs in the air for LONG periods of time.

Used this to film the red dots of a laser sight on a short a couple months back. It allowed the laser to show up like a thin red line; the particulate in the air reflects the beam allowing it to be seen. Uner low light conditions you couldn't "see" the dust. Under high light conditions it looked like dust.
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^^^really good idea actually...especially with colored chalk and orange chalk should give you a "good" dust color.
 
Edweirdo: "Sounds more interesting than most crap out of Hollywood."

Ha! If it came out of Hollywood today, it would need to be a remake, and as far as I know, this topic has never been done.

So sad, but remakes is all Hollywood knows how to do. That's what happens when you only hire writers who drop everything and move to L.A. on a 0.0001% chance they'll make it.

I can't wait for this DV revolution to really kick in, to see all the fantastic talent all over middle America and the world that only wanted a chance to participate.

Let us ALL beware of letting Hollywood redefine "independent" as meaning films that "only" cost $2-5 million and are essentially major stars or directors just "slumming it" for a film or two. The REAL indie film DV revolution will be when Hollywood had absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

Cheers!
 
GraBird said:
Edweirdo: "Sounds more interesting than most crap out of Hollywood."
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Ha! If it came out of Hollywood today, it would need to be a remake, and as far as I know, this topic has never been done.

So sad, but remakes is all Hollywood knows how to do. That's what happens when you only hire writers who drop everything and move to L.A. on a 0.0001% chance they'll make it.

I can't wait for this DV revolution to really kick in, to see all the fantastic talent all over middle America and the world that only wanted a chance to participate.

Let us ALL beware of letting Hollywood redefine "independent" as meaning films that "only" cost $2-5 million and are essentially major stars or directors just "slumming it" for a film or two. The REAL indie film DV revolution will be when Hollywood had absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

Cheers!
 
Be VERY careful what sort of wood-shop dust you use, if you go that way; MDF and many (most) commercial wood products have various nasty chemical residues in 'em, like formaldehyde.

Some of this material is toxic, some of it even carcinogenic, and - worst of all - most is extremely irritating to the lining of throat and lungs, and can trigger supremely impressive asthma attacks in people who are the least bit prone to that sort of thing...
 
More on Fullers Earth
It is a lapidary compound used in polishing and
up until 1987 i could rent a lawn seeder and buy a full bag of the stuff (the size of a cement bag ) for 30 dollars .
I have reservations about using this stuff around people if the shot is of long duration .
Breathing issues come to mind and I am a medic so remember any of these suggestions could put a chronic asthmatic into a fatal attack .
Next is an equipment issue .
For gooly sake " protect thy camera " with a large baggy , a protective flat and
A flat over the viewer .You must contruct this baggy with two breech holes in square or circualar shape and add the front flat protect the lens and the viewers flat to see the picture view
I am thinking about the dvx100 when I suggest this .
Even if I was useing my trusted 35mm eyemo , I would seal it too with a baggy .
Good Luck
Cheers
Bruce
 
ok, I thought this thread was officially proclaimed dead so I didn't want to try and resuscitate a corpse, so I just posted a new thread/question about a haze product in a can:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=41505


FANTASY FX™ Haze in a Can
100010 (horizontal spray)
100011 (Auto - vertical spray)
100015 (Poof packaging for Halloween)
The Spray Smoke in A Can called Fantasy FX is used for Steam effects, Haze Effects, or Smoke Effects just by changing the lighting angle when using this product.
Fantasy FX Smoke In A Can is readily available and easy to use for magical special effects that create enhanced moods, dreamy sequences, beams of light from strong lighting sources, reflections from beams off of a mirror ball
and many more uses.
Used in theatre, movies, and plays, this easy to use product is so common that it is in every grips, property or special effects truck as a standby for those emergency ideas that need to be done right away. One can lasts a long time
and can be used over and over again.
 
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