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Science Fact or Cinematic Fiction
Eraser (1996) Commando (1985) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) Do you ever think about the magic behind movies? We go into the theater and are awed by the harrowing stunts, crazy explosions, and death-defying action. Behind the scenes of every movie, there is a team making sure things run smoothly, look consistent, and look at least somewhat believable. One of the keys to a believable movie is to make sure the physics of the movie are correct. However, nothing is ever perfect and movies are no exception. Many action movies have unrealistic physics when it comes to firing guns because there is often little or no recoil, which violates the action/reaction principle of physics. In this paper, I will analyze three movies that have incorrect physics when it comes to recoil: Commando , Eraser , and John Wick: Chapter 2 . I will also explain how recoil works. Lastly, I will go over why there is no recoil in some action movies. Although it is a small detail, more attention to recoil wo...
Outline for the First Term Paper
Intro/Thesis: Many action movies have unrealistic physics when it comes to firing guns because there is often little or no recoil, which violates the action/reaction principle of physics. Movies: Eraser (1996) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) Commando (1985) Body: Guns in real life, how they work Why they recoil/ every action must have an equal and opposite reaction In these scenes, the gun does not recoil, or does not recoil as much as it should for the devastating force it fires Describing why movie guns do not recoil (because often firing blanks, or using a prop gun and sound, flash, and sometimes shell casings are added in post-production) Conclusion: If the movies wanted to be more realistic, there would be recoil, but sometimes it's just cooler to have a tough guy unaffected by gun recoil.
Stop Motion Animation of Falling
Stop Motion of Falling I created this clip using a string to suspend my character. I used an iPhone camera and put it together in Adobe Premiere. I edited out the string in Adobe Photoshop. I encountered quite a bit of challenges shooting this animation. This is the first stop motion animation I have ever done and I do not have a lot of prior experience animating. Timing was hard for me, but I did it to the best of my ability and tried to follow the odd rule. It was also hard keeping the motion consistent and believable for the falling because I had the clay man suspended on a string. Next time, I would like to have better time management and work on the timing of the animation itself to help myself figure out how to best shoot it.
Script, Boards, and Reference for Basic Animation
Script and Notes I plan to have a little clay man sitting in a tree and writing a letter. The letter slips out of his hand and starts falling. He reacts by lunging for the letter and he starts falling out of the tree. There will be a moment where the man and the letter will be falling and the letter will be falling at a slower speed than the man. The clay man will hit the ground first and the letter will land peacefully on his head. I plan to shoot with a DSLR camera. I will put together the shots in Adobe Premiere. I want to shoot inside and use either my mom's bonsai tree or buy/make a fake tree. I will need to take video reference of a paper falling and a heavier object falling. Boards Reference
