FightDirector: Goddammit, this went green.  This'll be a shiatshow.

OK, look, here's the thing.  The alternatives to using hot guns (either a blank-firing gun, or a blank-adapted gun) pretty much only help you with modern firearms, and really mostly only popular modern firearms at that.  If you want to use airsoft or electric non-gun Glocks or Sigs for your police procedural show?  Hey, no problem.  Glocks are all over the place and it's easy to source alternatives. I generally support that and you. You've got loads of options.

But what happens when you need a Colt Dragoon or LeMat revolver for a period western?  What happens when you give your scary Prussian a Bergmann 1894 No1 (Pascal's gun in The Mandalorean), or what happens when you want a Calico M100 to be your sci-fi rifle (as it was in Spaceballs)?  The airsoft and electric non-gun alternatives for those do not exist, and are frankly never going to exist in any meaningful capacity.  So if you need those guns to fire in your show, your choices are to use a totally non-functional cold prop (a 3d-printed shell, or something similar) and either contract with a VFX house to CGI in a lot of stuff - ejecting brass in particular is shocking difficult and expensive to add in - or you get a real weapon and adapt it to fire blanks, safely.  The latter choice is, for the tremendous majority of film and TV made in the US, by far the easier, and cheaper, solution.  As long as film and TV continue to generate a need for firearms which aren't modern and popular, and as long as film and TV continue to make productions which don't have large CG budgets, then there will be a requirement to have blank-firing and blank-adapted firearms available for use.

Now, If just Hollywood AAA-list productions want to move to non-live firearms which are solely assisted by CGI, then fine.  They generally have the budget to do that.  Something like 90% of the films and TV in the US don't have the budget to do that.  And this quote from TFA?  "...if you don't have the budget for the CGI, then don't shoot the scene." That's both incredibly ignorant and privileged.  Ignorant because of the attitude it displays towards everything that came before it in regards to budget and creativity (ie, "lack of budget and a story to tell" is how filmmaking creativity happens). and privileged as fark by telling everyone else who doesn't have a multimillion dollar budget for their film that "sorry, but there's certain stories that you don't get to tell because you don't have the connections/producers/money that *I* get to play with."  Fark that and fark her.

Finally, I conclude with an issue that nobody else in TFA, or here, is likely to raise.  The laws which govern filmmaking also tend to cover live theatrical productions as well.  I would very much like to see the law requiring that CGI assistance be used to make sure "firearms are safe" be applied to live stage productions.  Go ahead, I want to see a live production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore - a show which requires the use of a fully-automatic weapon and it's ejecting brass, and therefore blanks, to be accompanied by 600 extras rapidly running in front of the muzzle, each holding a slightly different picture of muzzle flash to create live animation, and throwing a pocketful of brass on the stage when they're done.

/I'm sorry, but I know more than you on this topic. I just do.
//this is a feel-good idea that sounds nice if you don't know what you're talking about or know about any of the half-a-hundred edge cases that it impacts which really only present themselves to people who do this for a living, and it is going to be awful in any sort of actual execution

Anderson's Pooper: Nick-c137: FightDirector: Goddammit, this went green.  This'll be a shiatshow.

OK, look, here's the thing.  The alternatives to using hot guns (either a blank-firing gun, or a blank-adapted gun) pretty much only help you with modern firearms, and really mostly only popular modern firearms at that.  If you want to use airsoft or electric non-gun Glocks or Sigs for your police procedural show?  Hey, no problem.  Glocks are all over the place and it's easy to source alternatives. I generally support that and you. You've got loads of options.

But what happens when you need a Colt Dragoon or LeMat revolver for a period western?  What happens when you give your scary Prussian a Bergmann 1894 No1 (Pascal's gun in The Mandalorean), or what happens when you want a Calico M100 to be your sci-fi rifle (as it was in Spaceballs)?  The airsoft and electric non-gun alternatives for those do not exist, and are frankly never going to exist in any meaningful capacity.  So if you need those guns to fire in your show, your choices are to use a totally non-functional cold prop (a 3d-printed shell, or something similar) and either contract with a VFX house to CGI in a lot of stuff - ejecting brass in particular is shocking difficult and expensive to add in - or you get a real weapon and adapt it to fire blanks, safely.  The latter choice is, for the tremendous majority of film and TV made in the US, by far the easier, and cheaper, solution.  As long as film and TV continue to generate a need for firearms which aren't modern and popular, and as long as film and TV continue to make productions which don't have large CG budgets, then there will be a requirement to have blank-firing and blank-adapted firearms available for use.

Now, If just Hollywood AAA-list productions want to move to non-live firearms which are solely assisted by CGI, then fine.  They generally have the budget to do that.  Something like 90% of the films and TV in the US don't have the budget to do that.  And this quote from TFA?  "...if you don't have the budget for the CGI, then don't shoot the scene." That's both incredibly ignorant and privileged.  Ignorant because of the attitude it displays towards everything that came before it in regards to budget and creativity (ie, "lack of budget and a story to tell" is how filmmaking creativity happens). and privileged as fark by telling everyone else who doesn't have a multimillion dollar budget for their film that "sorry, but there's certain stories that you don't get to tell because you don't have the connections/producers/money that *I* get to play with."  Fark that and fark her.

Finally, I conclude with an issue that nobody else in TFA, or here, is likely to raise.  The laws which govern filmmaking also tend to cover live theatrical productions as well.  I would very much like to see the law requiring that CGI assistance be used to make sure "firearms are safe" be applied to live stage productions.  Go ahead, I want to see a live production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore - a show which requires the use of a fully-automatic weapon and it's ejecting brass, and therefore blanks, to be accompanied by 600 extras rapidly running in front of the muzzle, each holding a slightly different picture of muzzle flash to create live animation, and throwing a pocketful of brass on the stage when they're done.

/I'm sorry, but I know more than you on this topic. I just do.
//this is a feel-good idea that sounds nice if you don't know what you're talking about or know about any of the half-a-hundred edge cases that it impacts which really only present themselves to people who do this for a living, and it is going to be awful in any sort of actual execution

Jesus, do you jerk off holding a gun at night? You need to go outside more I think. Who types ten pages about guns for a comment section?

Check out the username.  He actually is a professional film maker who deals with weaponry on stage and screen.

Axeofjudgement: Nick-c137: FightDirector: Goddammit, this went green.  This'll be a shiatshow.

OK, look, here's the thing.  The alternatives to using hot guns (either a blank-firing gun, or a blank-adapted gun) pretty much only help you with modern firearms, and really mostly only popular modern firearms at that.  If you want to use airsoft or electric non-gun Glocks or Sigs for your police procedural show?  Hey, no problem.  Glocks are all over the place and it's easy to source alternatives. I generally support that and you. You've got loads of options.

But what happens when you need a Colt Dragoon or LeMat revolver for a period western?  What happens when you give your scary Prussian a Bergmann 1894 No1 (Pascal's gun in The Mandalorean), or what happens when you want a Calico M100 to be your sci-fi rifle (as it was in Spaceballs)?  The airsoft and electric non-gun alternatives for those do not exist, and are frankly never going to exist in any meaningful capacity.  So if you need those guns to fire in your show, your choices are to use a totally non-functional cold prop (a 3d-printed shell, or something similar) and either contract with a VFX house to CGI in a lot of stuff - ejecting brass in particular is shocking difficult and expensive to add in - or you get a real weapon and adapt it to fire blanks, safely.  The latter choice is, for the tremendous majority of film and TV made in the US, by far the easier, and cheaper, solution.  As long as film and TV continue to generate a need for firearms which aren't modern and popular, and as long as film and TV continue to make productions which don't have large CG budgets, then there will be a requirement to have blank-firing and blank-adapted firearms available for use.

Now, If just Hollywood AAA-list productions want to move to non-live firearms which are solely assisted by CGI, then fine.  They generally have the budget to do that.  Something like 90% of the films and TV in the US don't have the budget to do that.  And this quote from TFA?  "...if you don't have the budget for the CGI, then don't shoot the scene." That's both incredibly ignorant and privileged.  Ignorant because of the attitude it displays towards everything that came before it in regards to budget and creativity (ie, "lack of budget and a story to tell" is how filmmaking creativity happens). and privileged as fark by telling everyone else who doesn't have a multimillion dollar budget for their film that "sorry, but there's certain stories that you don't get to tell because you don't have the connections/producers/money that *I* get to play with."  Fark that and fark her.

Finally, I conclude with an issue that nobody else in TFA, or here, is likely to raise.  The laws which govern filmmaking also tend to cover live theatrical productions as well.  I would very much like to see the law requiring that CGI assistance be used to make sure "firearms are safe" be applied to live stage productions.  Go ahead, I want to see a live production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore - a show which requires the use of a fully-automatic weapon and it's ejecting brass, and therefore blanks, to be accompanied by 600 extras rapidly running in front of the muzzle, each holding a slightly different picture of muzzle flash to create live animation, and throwing a pocketful of brass on the stage when they're done.

/I'm sorry, but I know more than you on this topic. I just do.
//this is a feel-good idea that sounds nice if you don't know what you're talking about or know about any of the half-a-hundred edge cases that it impacts which really only present themselves to people who do this for a living, and it is going to be awful in any sort of actual execution

Jesus, do you jerk off holding a gun at night? You need to go outside more I think. Who types ten pages about guns for a comment section?

He actually knows what he's talking about...