This may require a bump, though I've done my best to find the appropriate forum for it.
Here's a good one for you, folks. I have a stellar idea for a miniseries, and I'd like to put a pilot episode into production. Should the pilot do well, we have enough material to release a 10-episode story arc, or market the show to production companies with larger budgets. I have a strong plot, several interesting characters, a wonderful casting resource and an able-bodied crew. However, we are hung up on one very tedious detail.
It's critically important to the plot of the pilot episode (as well as the entire series) that a car bomb is detonated when a character gets into the car to drive away. I have absolutely no clue how to accomplish this.
We've tossed around several ideas- render the entire ordeal into after effects and pray to God it looks decent enough to be believable; keep the explosion off screen somehow; we even talked about dropping $300 on one of those cash-for-junk-cars deals and actually blow the thing to kingdom come. I don't think we can actually blow up a car without a licensed pyrotechnician on site, and I'm figuring that will cost thousands of dollars that I simply don't have to blow with the car. So, assuming that my overwhelming preference would be to have the so-called 'explosion' on screen, what suggestions can you fellow indie filmmakers make to me?
I realize it's a tricky quandary. Any ideas are welcome. Even crazy ones.
Here's a good one for you, folks. I have a stellar idea for a miniseries, and I'd like to put a pilot episode into production. Should the pilot do well, we have enough material to release a 10-episode story arc, or market the show to production companies with larger budgets. I have a strong plot, several interesting characters, a wonderful casting resource and an able-bodied crew. However, we are hung up on one very tedious detail.
It's critically important to the plot of the pilot episode (as well as the entire series) that a car bomb is detonated when a character gets into the car to drive away. I have absolutely no clue how to accomplish this.
We've tossed around several ideas- render the entire ordeal into after effects and pray to God it looks decent enough to be believable; keep the explosion off screen somehow; we even talked about dropping $300 on one of those cash-for-junk-cars deals and actually blow the thing to kingdom come. I don't think we can actually blow up a car without a licensed pyrotechnician on site, and I'm figuring that will cost thousands of dollars that I simply don't have to blow with the car. So, assuming that my overwhelming preference would be to have the so-called 'explosion' on screen, what suggestions can you fellow indie filmmakers make to me?
I realize it's a tricky quandary. Any ideas are welcome. Even crazy ones.