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Blunt Film Vaults: Pulfrich (Zero Budget 3D Pulfrich)

3D with one camera? with no computer manipulation? With one lens from some sunglasses?…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYmY7lw3nQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]

Plastazote: Robot Mask

I’ve been messing around with the material Plastazote to make a robot mask and it seems to be working out pretty well. My glue gun works well at holding the pieces together and the Plastazote is light and flexible. Come back tomorrow to see some pictures.

Blunt Film Choice: Shreds

I’ve just been introduced to the world of shreds. Music performances, mainly guitar solos, redubbed with poor quality reditions. Check out the example below.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BrLEuzVCVQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]

3 Act Structure Web pages

We’ve been updating our pages on the 3 Act Structure.

Click here to go to our 3 Act Structure menu pages where you can access information on what the 3 Act Structure is, how to apply it to your films and examples of it being used in movies. You can also see our latest [...]

Horror Films and the 3 Act Structure.

I’m putting forward the idea that (most) Horror films have their own variation of the 3 Act Structure. As I have discussed in previous entries on the 3 Act Structure most movies work on the premise that a protaganist is confronted with a problem that they have to solve and by doing so learn [...]

Robot Costume: Web page.

We’ve moved our continuing mission to build a robot costume to it’s own web page. Now you can find all updated previous entries and further information as we continue to make our own robot suit.

Check it out here.

New Film making Tip: EXTREME HAUNTING (or How to Make a Ghost Hunting Show)

Zero budget tips on how to make a spooky ghost hunting show using two people, one house, and one cheap camera.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5bN9-MMbA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]

Easy way to make your spaceship model fly by.

Here at Blunt HQ we’ve been experimenting with simple space ship fly bys. Basically using some fishing wire we dangled our space rocket in front of a bluescreen and spun it slowly.

Then we cut the shot with the space rocket beginning pointing towards the camera and finishing pointing away. we keyed out [...]

Blunt Film Pick: Cyriak

As I’ve been talking about using photos in animation, here’s a perfect example of what can be achieved. This is a compilation of Cyriaks Gif animations.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3JCESdFNyw&hl=en_GB&fs=1&]

Photo Animation: Adding Background

I’ve got together a bunch of pictures to create a background for my David Cameron character. Some curtains, that I turned blue and a podium. Pretty simple stuff. I also added a body and neck. Here’s the result so far.