I'm making a film to submit for college. In one brief scene I hide in the snow and pop out shooting a gun (a humorous scene obviously.) It snowed a lot over here in Northeast America so I got my chance.
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The thing is, I have to do the scene with my shirt off but with pants. In order to do this scene, we've dug a hole in the snow and I lay there while they pile snow on me first. It gets pretty cold under that snow. I tried to film it the other day, but I had to tell the crew to stop because it was just too cold, I didn't prepare well enough, and a big prop on set kept falling.
Q: I want to know which you think is a better idea to get this shot done, trying to save as many toes and limbs as I can lol:
a) Have a hot bath ready, immerse myself in the hot water, get in the hole, and then start the scene.
OR
Have heaters ready, heat myself up with a heater and towel, get into the hole and then start the scene.
(the snow hole and the heaters/hot bath will be near each other)
The hot bath one seemed alright at first but I don't know if the hot water will eventually work against me and make me even colder (the shot will take in total about 7-8 mins to film)
and with heaters, I don't know if the heat on my body will last that long.
I'm trying to keep my film as minimalistic as I can and I can't use multiple cuts or fake snow (I don't have enough money for fake snow to take up the entire landscape.)
I want to show that .. yup I froze my ass off filming this small segment. If I used cuts, you can tell I didn't have to stay there for that long. Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks
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The thing is, I have to do the scene with my shirt off but with pants. In order to do this scene, we've dug a hole in the snow and I lay there while they pile snow on me first. It gets pretty cold under that snow. I tried to film it the other day, but I had to tell the crew to stop because it was just too cold, I didn't prepare well enough, and a big prop on set kept falling.
Q: I want to know which you think is a better idea to get this shot done, trying to save as many toes and limbs as I can lol:
a) Have a hot bath ready, immerse myself in the hot water, get in the hole, and then start the scene.
OR
Have heaters ready, heat myself up with a heater and towel, get into the hole and then start the scene.
(the snow hole and the heaters/hot bath will be near each other)
The hot bath one seemed alright at first but I don't know if the hot water will eventually work against me and make me even colder (the shot will take in total about 7-8 mins to film)
and with heaters, I don't know if the heat on my body will last that long.
I'm trying to keep my film as minimalistic as I can and I can't use multiple cuts or fake snow (I don't have enough money for fake snow to take up the entire landscape.)
I want to show that .. yup I froze my ass off filming this small segment. If I used cuts, you can tell I didn't have to stay there for that long. Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks