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Introduction
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a stunt dummy.
What you will need:
| Hat/Balaclava | Around the house | n/a |
| Jumper/Hoody | Clothes Store | Depends |
| Trousers | Clothes Store | Depends |
| Shoes and gloves | Around the house | n/a |
| Boiler suit | Ebay | £2 (inc. p&p) |
| Wooden Stick (approximately 70cm by 3cm by 1cm) | Hardware store | £2 |
| Metal coat-hanger | Around the house | n/a |
| Cable ties | Hardware store | £2 |
| Something to fill it with: Newspaper or cloth | Around the house | n/a |
When choosing the boiler suit, it needs to be roughly the same size as your actor it’s replacing. We ended up using a medium size.
Quick Steps
- Bend the top of the coat-hanger to be straight
- Fix the coat-hanger to the peice of wood with Gaffa tape and cable ties
- Stick the coat-hanger in the back of the overalls with strong tape
- Tie up the ends of the legs and arms with cable ties
- Then stuff it
- Put the clothes on it
- Stuff the head
- Stuff the gloves and cable tie them on
- You are done
More
Filming techniques with the Dummy:
- Make sure that the dummy is a similar size to your actor
- When filming with the dummy try not to have it face in the shot
- Keep the dummy shots as short as possible because if seen to long will not be believable
Improvements you could make:
- Put a polystyrene head on it
- Add more bones to the dummy
Cool