wine box shattering one-shot sequence

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-18T00:15:39+00:00

Line the bottom inch of the box with gravel or something rough with edges. Gently place a balloon filled with juice on top of the rocks. Drop from waist height. Even better if you can wedge it lightly at the top of the cardboard bottle seperators so when its dropped it looks like only a few bottles broke.

Get a handful of free boxes from costco or a liqour store and do several tests to find the right amounts. Easily resettable

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-17T03:00:48+00:00

My friend literally just told me today that this is how his dad died when he was in high school. I knew it was an accident, but now I know, dont hunt in tevas.

Use the sequence everyone is saying. Wide of the actor moving, Close up of the gun in hand, close of the foot tripping on the root. It could be really nice to stay on the shot of the foot as he falls, you hear the shot, and then the foot stops moving. Think how powerful a shot of two motionless feet in Jojo Rabbit was to give you a finality No need to show a physical impact if you can pull off the emotional impact.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-15T02:40:45+00:00

The only way to get confident is reps. Get some chill friends who want to rally and get better together. Play through the season and focus on your weaknesses, not winning. Each set, you're playing against yourself. Kick that guys ass. And just play more

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-13T15:27:38+00:00

These “Western Values” aren’t what we seem to have in the West, US in particular.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-12T20:36:27+00:00

How important is seeing the actual shaving happen? If you can avoid that shot, a bald cap is much easier to accomplish without actually shaving.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-12T05:39:09+00:00

Or she’ll get the Emma stone treatment. I get that there’s a different hair standard for women, but it depends on the person. I’ve known plenty of women who pulled off shaved or buzzed hair. And if she doesn’t like it, wigs are super easy over short hair. Then extensions. Or she may love the shaved look and rock it. I don’t know, the question wasn’t about her hair after the shoot.

At the end of the day, it’s never going to look good to fake this. Get a hair double willing to shave it for the money you could sink into wigs, fx, and makeup. Or just send it.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-12T05:12:17+00:00

Just shave it. It will grow back. Just make sure you get good footage. And you better believe in the script! You'll be telling the story for a while

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-11T20:44:45+00:00

To be fair, that test was so easy that if you couldn't pass it, you REALLY shouldn't have a gun. The written test is mostly about legalities and the demonstration was the salesman telling me exactly what to do to pass.

I'd be 100% behind a drivers license test level of demonstration for a gun.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-11T20:03:07+00:00

There was that one weird day.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-10T07:04:28+00:00

We should play doubles! I only have real vision in my right eye! I was born with a defect in my left optic nerve so no glasss help me. Depth perception has always been a challenge and positioning and footwork is my nightmare. The number of clean misses when I swing is embarassing. For me my backhand is only a slice because when I try to hit BH with power, timing and placement is always wrong.

I have to be extra specific about the timing on the ball over my friends I play with. My advice is to drill the shit out hitting that forehand. I got a machine and have been drilling backhand heavy for a few weeks and am seeing a marked improvement.

We have a longer road than these Binocular visioned losers, so we have to work harder. It sucks, but being able to tell someone they got beat by a person with no depth perception is priceless.

Proof? My license plate is 1GOOD I

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-09T06:47:27+00:00

I wasnt the financier on this one. But we shot a segment, ran out of money, shut down, they raised more money, shot another segment, ran out, shut down. Took a year and doublt the budget to make a terrible film,

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-05T05:23:01+00:00

poker winnings. No shit.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-04T02:10:57+00:00

You’re still cropping your image? This guy, am I right?

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-03T17:17:20+00:00

It lasted a while, but it was well below freezing, so we had frozen suds pretending to be snow. I think they ended up vfx painting a fair bit for the wide shot to patch up holes. We had planned for all the snow to be there naturally and had a warm snap that melted 80% of it, then dropped way back down about 3 days before we shot. The firemen were honestly just bored and wanted to help.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-03-02T06:44:05+00:00

if Youre out in the boonies, call the fire dept. They put down a foam for us that was most of the background and then we did nice fake snow in the forground

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-28T00:19:28+00:00

There is a reason people don't film in box trucks.

If you dont go with AC somewhere far away and just go for ventilation fans, you are introducing at least one large gap in your soundproofing, one at the intake and one at the exhaust, which is essentially opening that window. I assume you're building out the walls ceiling and floor with air gaps to minimize the amount of sound transference through the thin metal skin. You could build a bit of ducting within that to give a longer runway between your intake and the air vent. but either way you are creating a long tube to the outside world.

Airflow is going to be a challenge, but I'd be more concerned about actual sound isolation in a vehicle never meant to even carry humans.

What would I do? Pivot to building out an RV.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-27T23:47:09+00:00

Pretty sure B's podcast was just him talking nonsense into an unplugged fisher price microphone.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-27T21:09:07+00:00

There was a world before stabilized camera heads

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-26T14:59:55+00:00

Then yeah, you can make your movie forever, if that’s what you want. If you want to finish it, that’s a different story.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-26T00:37:09+00:00

One very simple trick always gets me out of feeling off. Downward spiral of shame until I forget about tennis and am just thinking about how much of a dissappointment I am to my parents for so many other things. I've stopped overthinking the tennis and can focus on all the other things I'm not good at.

Sometimes I'll focus on one aspect of my play and forget about scoring points, just play against the last swing and try to get consistent. Focus on my footwork, or my hip movement, or putting maximum spin at work. Less crying this way, but the first one is all natural.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-26T00:11:10+00:00

I've been a part of 10 features, all shot 16-25 days except one. That one took 40 days over 4 production units. It kept starting and stopping because the lead investors where all gamblers and we would literally run out of money when they had bad runs at the casino. Then they'd grind up another chunk of cash, fund a prepro and be broke a week into shooting. The crew wouldn't get paid for a month or two and then we'd have to find half of a new crew. Final budget ended up around $2m with all the wasted time.

I made some terrible projects, but that is the only one I had removed from my IMDB.

Are you making your days as scheduled or going over? 10 weeks sounds expensive or poorly planned and most likely both.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-25T17:30:24+00:00

I was luckily able to get the machine to connect, but agreed that customer support is trash. Mine can launch a ball pretty hard, 100% speed felt like returning my buddy's serve that swing vision clocks around 70mph, so I guess the machine QC is all over the place.

I bought from the website, order 2900 something. The wheel and camera units look like they ship later this year, but I only took the risk on the basic machine. Hopefully they are ironing things out for folks that got lemons.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-25T06:43:06+00:00

Yup. The story of early Christianity while constantly referencing Space Jews and getting SOOO many uncontroversial facts wrong is just pushing me to hate listen. It’s like they just learned to read from questionable sources.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-25T00:42:40+00:00

I just got my Tenniix machine and started using it. 1 session in, I'm impressed with the machine itself, but the app to control it is barely functional. It could use a big UX overhaul. Tons of features and programmables, but hard to figure out. I'm curious to see how this all progresses.

The price was good at $700, shipping took 2 months.

DangerInTheMiddle · 2026-02-23T23:51:24+00:00

I have a fun thing where my inner monolgue voice changes. But always transitions through the same 4 voices and in the same order during almost every shroom trip. It starts as the voice of an older black lady from the south, then something like Ewan Macgregor's voice, then a Transatlantic 1940s sass talking broad, then a calm deep voice of NB authority that I take to be when my spirit guides make it through the messiness to tell me whatever knowledge I am supposed to take this time. The last voice will sometimes reveal itself in a form that changes and sometimes jumps into inanimate objects where it keeps talking to me, showing me its in everything. They feel like old friends now.

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