Quote Originally Posted by DEVELISH
cool - I had no idea someone would actually make the efford - did you study film in college?

:develish:
I am just an artist with a background in amateur film making. Throughout junior high and high school all I did was write scripts and film student projects... I also did cinemetography and special effects for some of my friends projects after I graduated.

One of or my projects is still talked about and shown to students at my old school to this day. It was after I graduated and filmed for my friend, Geoff, for his English class student film project. It was "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". When Sir Gawain chops the Green KNight's head off at the banquet, I filmed it like this:

Shot one: Sir Gawain raises the blade over The Green Knight's neck and brings it down. Just as the blade connects with the helmet, we cut away.

Shot two: Cut away to the astonished crowd of onlookers and knights gasping

Shot three: A mannequins head rolls off the shoulders of the Green Knight form the same camera angle as Shot one.

Shot Four: The head rolls in fromt of the camera in a blur, leaving a trail of blood behind it.

Shot Five: The headless Green Knight reaches down and grabd his head, the lifts it to his shoudlers

Shot Six: A shot of the crowd, again astonished and gasping.

Shot Seven: The Green Knight (with his real head) twists it back on (as though he is cracking his neck)... creating the illusion of putting his head back on.

So I have been writing, filming and setting up trick shots like this for years. :-)

Rocky