Gun Safety For Filmmakers
Channel: Tom Antos
Date: 2021-11-16

What happened on Alec Baldwin's latest film should never occur. Guns on film sets can be done 100% safely using a few simple techniques. Also if every filmmaker knew basic gun safety then all those tragic accidents could have been avoided. ⬇️More INFO below⬇️

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In this post I share easy to remember gun safety tips that I think all film crew and cast members should know. I also show the difference between real and so called movie prop guns. Finally I show easy to use and 100% safe alternatives to creating realistic gun fights on screen.

Time Stamp:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Gun accidents on film sets
01:42 Why filmmakers should know guns
02:57 Basic gun safety!
04:53 What to do on unsafe set
09:18 Prop ammo
10:42 Blank ammo
12:26 Dangers of blank ammo
14:40 Prop vs real guns
16:51 Avoid accidents with blank ammo
18:07 100% safe guns on a film set
19:32 How to make fake guns look real
20:11 Simple video editing gun effect
23:49 Recap
26:48 Outro

In this post I will share easy to remember gun safety tips that I think all film crew and cast members should know. I will also show the difference between real and so called movie prop guns. Finally I show easy to use and 100% safe alternatives to creating realistic gun fights on screen.

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