Hollywood Filmmaking Techniques for Bollywood and Nollywood Filmmakers
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Filmmaking is a combination of art, craft and science. Both geometry and symmetry are very important to filmmaking and physics plays a significant role in the photography and cinematography of filmmaking.
The following filmmaking techniques of #Hollywood can be achieved in the production of low budget movies in #Bollywood and #Nollywood. This first of it's kind presentation on a Nigerian website is for the benefit of those who did not go to film school.
~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series.
Blood Effect
Good old chocolate syrup just won’t cut it anymore. To create realistic blood spurting and spraying effects these days takes careful planning and placement. While movie goers know that the blood they see on screen is obviously not real, they don’t often know how the effect is created. Blood is one of the basic practical effects that any number film making courses will reveal the secret behind.
The effect is created using Technicolor Blood. Imagine a scene where someone is holding a knife to skin and slicing it ‘open.’
Blood starts to seep out and it looks quite believable. This is done by securing a tube full of Technicolor Blood to the unseen side of the knife. The blood is then squeezed out when it is needed. Similarly, squibs are used to simulate an actor getting shot. They are small, electronically triggered explosives that are strapped to the body and activated after the ‘shot.’
The Orphan Black Effect
If you’ve seen the multiple award winning TV series, Orphan Black, you know that a single actress plays seven different characters, who sometimes interact with each other in a single frame. Tatiana Maslany speaks and even touches her clones in the show, creating realistic and completely believable interactions.
The process begins with Maslany and a double filming their dialogues and scenes with the camera moving to follow them. Once the camera has memorized the motion, Maslany’s double leaves and Maslany switches characters to play both parts by herself, repeating the same motions in each case. Finally, the scene is shot again without any actors, so that the editors can stitch together all the motions realistically, which allows the characters to actually look like they’re reacting to each other. Time consuming, but very effective!
Miniature Sets
Cost effective, realistic, easy to experiment with and improve upon, the use of miniature sets in movies is a technique that is here to stay. Rather than create an entire CGI scene of a city, castle or street, miniature sets such as the Hogwarts castle in Harry Potter and the city of Gondor in Lord of the Rings allow film makers much more creativity and freedom during production.

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