JAKE PAUL - Body Double/Portrait.
Specifications:
Text placement holder for the description.
Materials:
Text placement holder for heavy duty steel armatures, wigs, acrylic eyes, bungees.
Specific Dummy not Available.
Available with Advance Notice.
TEXT PLACEMENT HOLDER same day we were contacted, we bid this job, our bid was accepted, and that very evening we were on the red-eye to New York to make life cast molds of Brad Pitt that morning, then fly home the very next night.
TEXT PLACEMENT HOLDER d hands out of silicone rubber. The bodies were cast in a dense flexible urethane foam over thick steel armatures. because of the rushed schedule, we were back filming in New York within two weeks with three full stunt dummies of Brad Pitt and a replacement head.
TEXT PLACEMENT HOLDER ran this stunt effect, using a whipcord system (a pneumatic pull arm) firmly anchored to the ground against a very large truck. Like a Hollywood stunt punch, the van never really hits our dummy; it only drives by, just missing it from behind. The whipcord did all the work, pulling a cable -removed in post-production- that ran to a condor 30 feet up, through a pulley and down to a pull point at the base of the body double's neck. The taxi was already in synchronized motion, intersecting the double's arc toward it and knocking or body double of Brad back into opposing traffic. Like a human ping pong ball. It was very violent and effective. Scary, even in person. For each shot, our dummy was lined up in the camera, shuttling between the video image of Brad's filmed final position and the live feed of our body double.
TEXT PLACEMENT HOLDER about the potential wear and tear these body doubles were going to receive, so we built 3 full doubles -and an extra head too. We shipped a huge repair kit with us, figuring we could always work on two body doubles while one was filming. We did about two dozen takes and after the first, it became obvious just how durable our 200 lb, steel, silicone and urethane body doubles were. Aside from dusting off the inevitable shattered windshield glass, they required very little work, even after slamming into and skidding across the asphalt. Wow. Silicone rubber is great material and still one of the corner stones of special effects. The wardrobe showed more wear quickly, keeping the wardrobe people busy stitching and switching.
JAKE PAUL - Credits
Date and Credits placement TEXT, director.
Service from behind the scenes since 1980.
