All language subtitles for 13-GripToolsWindAndHazeMachines.mp4

Big fan of using wind machines.

Now you don't necessarily always have
to go and buy a fancy wind machine fan.

You can also get away with using

a simple, simple

floor fan or a cyclone fan.

A really good option, if you want to
swing for it and you're on location, is

going and buying a cordless blower

from the home improvement store,

battery operated, so that you're not on
location.

You're not worried about having to plug
a fan in.

So you want to get the move of the
dress or the move of the hair, you just

have an assistant googh,

throw it in, and you get the nice,

the nice movement.

And

you're not worried about tethering to
electricity.

Really useful to use.

The fan

you can use,

buy a regular floor fan.

Doesn't have to be anything fancy.

We use one on location.

They're all good options.

As long as you can move enough.

If you are having to worry about audio.

It's a very different story.

But, you know, I love the cordless
blower.

I think it works really well, and
they're relatively small and easy to

kind of kind of maneuver with.

The other thing that I use all the time
as a haze machine,

and I want to make a point to say that
a haze machine is not a fog machine.

They're different,

they're really different.

And so yes, they both create these
particles in the air.

But a fog machine creates clouds of
smoke.

A haze machine

is not really supposed to haze.

Machines make light show up,

and so it shows streaks of light.

It creates an atmosphere.

Think of it.

It lowers the contrast of the room,

and it makes lights glow.

We call this bloom.

It makes lights, bloom highlights.

It also shows you shafts and streaks of
light.

And I'm going to show you what this
looks like a little bit later in a room.

Again, not about showing you clouds of
smoke.

It's about making the lights show up
and glow in the scene.

Spielberg uses these

all the time, and once you know it's
there, you never unsee it in a film.

But cinematographers use the haze
machine all the time, but

know that it requires.

You've got to run it for a while when
you're using it, and then not run it

because you can use it too much.

It's all about the gauging.

What's not enough.

You also don't want the plumes of smoke
to show up.

You just want it to be kind of hazy.

And so like when we're doing a big
space, we had to come in and run it for

an hour or two before the shoot to make
sure everything was dissipated and move

it around in the space evenly so it
didn't look like there was a toxic

cloud across part of the theater, which
it does for the first bit, like you're

sitting in the behind the Scenes video,
but you can see it just kind of

accumulates on the bottom floor.

So we're actually having to move it
around the room and use fans to spread

it out,

because we want it to be consistent
across the space, not just

lingering in one area.

When you're in a small space, when
you're in a studio, you make you run it

for fifteen minutes and you're fine.

It's just when you're in a huge
environment, it's a very different consideration.

Also, if you're in a small environment,

haze in a can

gives you a really effective use of
this.

But

hazenic can gets expensive.

I mean, I think one can is 1518 Bucks.

I'll do a shoot, and I'd run through
two cans.

So it gets expensive,

not as expensive as a haze machine I
think at the entry level, there are

like 400 bugs.

Entry level,

the industrial, like commercial ones, I
think, started

121300 Bucks.

I've got this one, which was around for
something, and it's awesome.

I love it.

I think it's great.

Does the job that I need.

It's not filling cavernous spaces, but
for the studio, for normal rooms, it's

totally acceptable.

And they last forever on juice.

I've.

I think I've had it for a year, I've
probably run it twenty times, and I've

not filled it back up since the first
time.

So yeah, they'll run it for a while.

But that's a really good one.

And I like that a lot.