American Cinematographer - February 1984 - 60

Two frames from

explosion

scene

enhanced

by

animation

are

at

an

shown

left and center.

Another frame,
illustrates the

right,

chilling "you

are
there" effect of the

composites.

purposes

the explosion itself, to be explica¬
ble as the source of the wholesale
destruction which follows, must
be exceedingly awesome, even
within the limitations of the televi¬
sion screen. The stem of the mush¬
room
in a real one megaton
nuclear blast is more than two
miles thick, while the cap may be
ten miles across. To communicate
the fury of such an explosion, the
turbulence of the rising cloud
would be emphasized beyond
what can be determined in the
stock shots, yet kept strictly

and

of the

accessory

equipment

assembled to

produce simulated
nuclear explosions.

58

audience

acceptance.
It was also decided that

One of the tanks
some

and

within the bounds of reality.
Another bit of dramatic
license would be to slow down the

spread of light from the center of
the explosion to the foreground
instead of showing it as an in¬

tion and

superimposed over live
photography was quickly
rejected by Blalack. This method
had been tried during production

action

flash, which is the way
in the documentary
footage. Here, it would rush to¬

of Star Wars. The result: four
months wasted on an experiment
which failed to achieve the desired
results.
Considerable thought

ward the viewer in

was

stantaneous

it appears

a

wave

sug¬

gestive of the force field. The end
result would be a sort of creative
realism which would test the imag¬
ination and skills of the Praxis
crew to the limit.
A

suggestion that the ex¬
plosions and contrails could be
produced via hand-drawn anima¬

given to the idea of producing
the explosions by firing columns
of smoke into the air to be pho¬

tographed with
This,

a

high speed

cam¬

deemed not
feasible. To create the required
mushroom effect, the cloud would
era.

too, was

have to rise to a height
feet photographed at

of some 60
noofps. It



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