Taniith
Active Member
We're working on a production of Heathers, and are a bit stumped by how to do this one well.
Our director is hoping to recreate a sequence in the movie where an actress falls through a glass coffee table while dying, shattering it in the process.
We could probably do it with sugar glass, but that seems like it would be a mess, and likely expensive (and even with sugar glass, I feel like you shouldn't be breaking it near your face?). One thought was to have a table of some sort that collapses in the middle, and use rubber 'glass' shards either already on the table or thrown in the air as she falls through to simulate it. But I'm slightly skeptical of how well that would work in practice.
Does anyone have any thoughts of a better way to go about it?
Our director is hoping to recreate a sequence in the movie where an actress falls through a glass coffee table while dying, shattering it in the process.
We could probably do it with sugar glass, but that seems like it would be a mess, and likely expensive (and even with sugar glass, I feel like you shouldn't be breaking it near your face?). One thought was to have a table of some sort that collapses in the middle, and use rubber 'glass' shards either already on the table or thrown in the air as she falls through to simulate it. But I'm slightly skeptical of how well that would work in practice.
Does anyone have any thoughts of a better way to go about it?