Post by propssophie on Sept 23, 2019 6:02:21 GMT -5
I am trying to pool some ideas from other builders for this one.
I make props for the theatre and need some assistance with a. Special effect. During this play there is a roast dinner on stage that gets shot during the show. The director wants the roast to explode in some way as if a bullet had torn through it. This is an enclosed space with an audience so whatever I choose has to be safe. Our prop gun will be inactivated and not able to shoot a blank, the shot will be a sound effect. There is no intermission to bring anything in so whatever it is would have to be ready to go and sitting for at least half an hour before go time.
I was thinking of carving the roast out of dense foam and putting a latex skin over it. The only thing I have come up with is running a tube into the roast and rigging it to a compressor or some kind of bellows. Maybe loading the end with some powder or “meat chunks” behind a precursor “bullet hole” so that when you trigger the air it forces open the latex covering the hole and spraying out the debris.
Open to any and all safe solutions. Help a builder out.
I make props for the theatre and need some assistance with a. Special effect. During this play there is a roast dinner on stage that gets shot during the show. The director wants the roast to explode in some way as if a bullet had torn through it. This is an enclosed space with an audience so whatever I choose has to be safe. Our prop gun will be inactivated and not able to shoot a blank, the shot will be a sound effect. There is no intermission to bring anything in so whatever it is would have to be ready to go and sitting for at least half an hour before go time.
I was thinking of carving the roast out of dense foam and putting a latex skin over it. The only thing I have come up with is running a tube into the roast and rigging it to a compressor or some kind of bellows. Maybe loading the end with some powder or “meat chunks” behind a precursor “bullet hole” so that when you trigger the air it forces open the latex covering the hole and spraying out the debris.
Open to any and all safe solutions. Help a builder out.