Getting Behind The Scenes: Film Industry
The film industry has many things going on behind the scene that the casual movie fan is unaware of. The ability to produce a quality film is no simple task and because of that, many interesting things occur behind the scenes for every single shot.
Many people might be unaware of a sound stage. A sound stage is a device for adding sound to a movie. This technique allows objects to make sounds that can added to a movie. For example, when an actor is walking up a flight of stairs, a sound stage technician may simply be banging some shoes against a sound stage board to produce this sound in the movie. This behind the stage work is what many refer to as movie magic.
In the movies, what you see is not always what you get. The director may have to cut things out or enlarge things to make the picture look sharp. For many of the explosions you see in movies, the director will have a team build a miniature version of something. The Empire State Building is one such example. Then, they will apply special effects to this miniature version and blow the picture up for the movie audience.
