Thanks Christopher Thomson
Edited by bltcd1-ct2ect, 17 April 2008 - 05:04 PM.
Posted 17 April 2008 - 05:02 PM
Edited by bltcd1-ct2ect, 17 April 2008 - 05:04 PM.
Posted 17 April 2008 - 05:21 PM
Posted 17 April 2008 - 07:18 PM
I will get to study a weeks worth of pyro's later next month
Posted 17 April 2008 - 07:30 PM
Posted 17 April 2008 - 07:31 PM
The transition from enthusiast to professional is hard! Some serious effort NOW to find thousands of contacts who might provide SFX employment - even temporary. will help tremendously.
Many people are individuals in business but there are some significant companies. Search KFTV.com... for SFX companies. Search the ASP for members with a LOT of experience, search here for the odd post that identifies someone as a professional rather than a hobbyist.
Be sociable, pleasant and helpful with folk and they will be more receptive.
Remember that pyro is only a small part of SFX you may need a range of skills to maintain yourself in work.
Posted 17 April 2008 - 07:36 PM
Whats a weeks worth of pyro's?
Posted 17 April 2008 - 07:39 PM
A 3 year course and only a week's worth of pyro?! Is the other 2 51/52 years taken up with CGI?
My advice would be to go on a proper training course (they are out there) and put out some feelers and get yourself known.
Also, if you feel you are experienced enough; create a showreel of effects that you can do and send copies to the major studios (TV & Film) and FX houses.
Posted 17 April 2008 - 09:32 PM
Posted 19 April 2008 - 02:36 PM
SFX will move to the simulated as real bangs have a risk and risk cost. Mack Sennet did his own stunts in the 1900s by the 1970s there were stand -ins, stunt people and body doubles, as we pass into the 21st century the cost of an injury is so huge that CGI and chroma screening is important. The B&W movie industry regarded it as acceptable to "lose" a few stunt people - they got a good price for a job BUT it might be fatal. Modern movies regard things very differently.
You have to make the SFX look good AND perform them safely.
Models get blown up, actors get covered in sand and dust, the editing makes it look like the actors have survived an explosion.
Spend time in your library (local and college) look out directories and find the details of film and TV SFX companies and individuals. WWW.IMDB might have the credits for some really good action films and their SFX crew.
Manor Farm, Theale by any chance? That is a good course, BECTU approved, and a good step to being a competent sfx person
Posted 27 April 2008 - 10:41 PM
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