After we went back to film the explosion again on Monday night in the dark, the outcome was much more impressive than in the light, this was the result that we achieved. I assisted Emma in the filming and editing of the explosion as I was very much interested in the making of it and wanted to get involved as much as possible.
The explosion was made possible by a previous contact of Emma's 'Lancashire Militia', a fully qualified explosion company operated by a Friend of Emma's Ted Lewis. Ted is an expert in creating explosions for film and various re-enactments. Lucky Emma had done some film and photography work for the company previously so we were able to call in this favour and film some specialised explosions at the fraction of the price it would normally cost.
The benefits of using a real explosion rather than footage from another film are that it doesn't look out of place with the rest of the footage which is something we felt as a team was very important in creating a realistic trailer. The other huge benefit of having our own explosion is that we can actually feature our main character 'Grace' in the explosion which wouldn't be possible with footage taken from another film.
Final Explosion from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.
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