Creating balls of plasma…
So, you’re shooting a futuristic short film, and you want to create balls of plasma to shoot out of a plasma rifle. How do you do it? Most productions nowadays use digital effects to create the plasma ball. But that can be a tough thing to do as a guerrilla filmmaker. So here’s my really simple mechanical solution to this problem: Glowing Night Balls. You get a batch of them, fasten up a small air canon prop that will look like the plasma rifle, and shoot them around. For added visual effects, you can always composite some shots of arcing electricity over the top of the flying night ball to give it that nice scifi look. And the great part of this is that you don’t need to create a digital effect and then have to make it look realistic, which is really the tough part.
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