Film Accidents thread.

[Darkmast508]

Post your worst film-making accidents here! Mine is deleting an Hour of footage. :'( No, I nearly also broke a school camera. :grumble:

[Infected_Films]

lol, when i walked on set one morning I tripped over a dedo light.... oooops

[New Spark Films]

Breaking my only camera right before a shoot.

[Cuboos]

when i was filming Sam Vs. Chris, i fell down the hill Chris was on, and got a nasty cut on my arm, luckily, it was not serious.

[Weker1]

I Forgot to empty my pockets before a prat fall, Key's Ballbaring(don'task), and a Zippo, Och!
Then I was making this zombie short film and I was trying my hand a squibs(failed) but the bad thing was not no head wound it was that some one was watching what I had recorded and forgot to go back to the end of the tape!
So I had about 70% of the film done then I tryed the squib and so It recorded 20 mins of me sitting with a fake gun in my mouth and all I managed to do was waste 30% of the film, I have since scrapped the project, I will try it again once I have my own camera and willing zombies!:)

[fadedxmasfilms]

i once strapped my camera to the front of my electric scooter
um it was in it's case thing
attached with zipties
and i hit a pothole while recording
and i flew off
and the camera did too
i didn't get hurt badly
and my camera still worked
but it scared the shit out of me

[Kevinaz]

Didn't have a tripod at the time, dropped my only camera from on top of my computer monitor. I was so damn mad!

[nooneimportant77]

i was shooting some dirt bike riding, and did the typical film the inside of the lens cap for 20 minutes and put the camera on stand by when i thought i was recording, i still got some good stuff though

[Grimnr]

While shooting our kung fu movie I fell, about ten feet and dislocated my left knee. To top it off we were about a two hour hike back into the woods, no way out but to hike it back. I spent the next two month on crutches, and we are just now back to our filming almost a year later.

Grimnr

Almost forgot while rehershing a sword fight I nicked the cheek of my opponent right under his eye.

[spicysmoke]

Ive never really hurt anybody, or broken anything while filming. Just losing some footage a couple times.

[CocoMunky]

When making one of my warcraft tutorials on yourtube, i thought it would be ok for me to work on it in bed(with my laptop)cause i was tired. so i unplugged it and was workin away for about 5 minutes before i fell asleep. needless to say i woke up hours later to a dead lappy with no movie file saved :(((

[firepigpoop]

I got my camera wet and it set aflame when i started to use it next time...yea that blew

[Don Luckycharms]

I was shooting an action movie and i almost knocked my friend out with a fake metal gun.

[Darkmast508]

Wow, these are pretty nasty accidents!

[Leatherfeet]

Me and my friend were making a movie, it started in the day and ended up still being made at about midnight - inside. My family had gone to bed and we were editing it when we realised we were missing the rugby tackle in the hall. So we did it and everyone woke up and started shouting. oh well. ;)

[bridboyross]

Making Manhunt one of my friends was supposed to look like he was hanging. He stood on my friends back who was crouched and put the rope around his neck, the rope was not tied (i thought) in a way that would choke him so if he slipped it would just fall apart. Suffice to say he did slip off my friends back and the rope did not untie, luckily he landed with enough rope that his toes touched the ground, i decided to hang a dummy instead for the next take!

[Fromourankles]

Making Manhunt one of my friends was supposed to look like he was hanging. He stood on my friends back who was crouched and put the rope around his neck, the rope was not tied (i thought) in a way that would choke him so if he slipped it would just fall apart. Suffice to say he did slip off my friends back and the rope did not untie, luckily he landed with enough rope that his toes touched the ground, i decided to hang a dummy instead for the next take!

haha thats a rough one :eek:

[LuxuryEntertainment]

when I was recording for kill Joe (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwCJInaGHj4) we had most of the recording done, about two more days left. we started editing and moved the finished video (from what we had so far) to my friends computer, then my computer crashed and we lost about 12 different movie projects including Kill Joe. the link above is the video that we put on my friend's computer. then his computer crashed so now all thats left of it is the youtube quality video, so recently we have been remaking Kill Joe, (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwwsVvH97hA) and at the part ware I jump onto the deck, my brother wanted to try a film effect and have my friend jump for one take, and he is shorter than me so I had to lift him up to the railing but when I let go and walked away he lost his grip and swung in and broke the window.

[mystkmastkal]

taping over alot of stuff
i was pissed
i cried in a corner

[Spleg]

Me and a friend were trying out fireballs effects (not detonationfilms.com stuff, we made real fireballs). We couldn't get it to work at first.

Unfortunately, the first time it did work, the shooter was pointing right at me, so I saw and felt a huge, really hot fireball in my face. I didn't get burnt or lose my eyebrows or anything because I was about 4ft away, and the fireball was about 3ft long. But we did nearly set a window ledge on fire and got a bit burnt on our hands from flying embers (wear GLOVES, folks!).

After that, we got the technique right and it worked every time, with fireballs ranging from 1ft to 5ft high!

[Kohrsfilms]

I was makng a movie with my cousins. And right before we started filming one of my cousins sprained his ankle jumping down into a ditch. We had to cancel filming and start back up again 2 or 3 weeks later.

[rrh]

Nothing too serious. Broke a window once, a light-bulb another time.

[bridboyross]

I remember when I was about 11 using an old VHS camcorder. Me and a friend had just snook a gander at Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow and decided we'd try and recreate the headless horseman (actually the scene we recreated was the fake horseman with the flaming pumpkin) so we took a football (soccer ball?) and painted it orange. My friend put a top over his head. I ripped open the football and filled it with petrol from an old can in the garage. Friend holds it whilst blind, I set fire to it. Everythings okay. I get behind camera tell him to run towards me, he falls over, ball explodes, top on fire, 11 year olds screaming, he still has the scars on his hand.

[Fromourankles]

I remember when I was about 11 using an old VHS camcorder. Me and a friend had just snook a gander at Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow and decided we'd try and recreate the headless horseman (actually the scene we recreated was the fake horseman with the flaming pumpkin) so we took a football (soccer ball?) and painted it orange. My friend put a top over his head. I ripped open the football and filled it with petrol from an old can in the garage. Friend holds it whilst blind, I set fire to it. Everythings okay. I get behind camera tell him to run towards me, he falls over, ball explodes, top on fire, 11 year olds screaming, he still has the scars on his hand.

ouch

i feel bad cause i'm laughing

[rrh]

Based on the stories I've heard, you should not risk any special effect that involves filling something with gasoline. I didn't know them personally, but I read about a couple guys who tried to do light-saber fights by filling fluorescent tubes with gasoline and setting them on fire. It also didn't turn out well.

[Cuboos]

i was told that i was filming something on a trampoline, and i was doing flips, and i landed on my head. woke up in bead. i don't remember doing it though. and I'm not sure what happened to the tape.

[Boojie]

I'm not sure how, but after taking the direct footage off of my Camera, one scene's audio was on a later-on scene and so forth and so on. I STILL have no idea how it happened, but it still angers me. If anyone is wondering, it was about my friend illegally downloading a show I made...on my own computer. In other words, he downloaded files off of a false-sharing site that were on my computer anyway.
...Trust me, you had to watch it.

[fxmaniac]

once when we were filming a quick gun shoot in the garden for a bit of fun, my freind fell right into some dog poo and we got it on camera it was so funny :teehee:

[Darkmast508]

Thread Revived

[Alasdair]

I did a scene of ninjas charging down a mountain path on either side of me (the cameraman).

One of the ninjas thought it would be HILARIOUS as he ran by to hit me in the stomach with his weapon as hard as he could. Obviously hitting your cameraman ruins the shot.

[WesScog]

Ninjas are dicks.

[Zombeast]

Last December, I was doing effects for my friends school project; there was a 30 page script and it turned out that only me, the director, and the writer were the only ones who read it. And on top of that, what was supposed to be two 6 (?) hour days turned into one 12 hour day.

[DarkMirageProductions]

I broke my only camcorder when I opened it for no apparent reason.

[New Spark Films]

Never cast someone bossier than you. I am constantly getting punched in the face because I don't let other people set up the shots even when I know they are terrible at it.

Also during my last shoot I went handheld and nearly fell into a pile of rusty saws and gardening shears. It was dark out and I was looking at the LCD screen, not the ladder on the ground.

[kittytownfluffsa]

I have a digital camera where you have to hold record down a while before it starts filming, and several times i didn't push it down long enough.

[happyhands man]

i was filming this zombie-vampire type thing and the scene included getting killed in a tree house, but when the actor was getting "killed" he kicked the camera out of my hands into his pool =P

[happyhands man]

I remember when I was about 11 using an old VHS camcorder. Me and a friend had just snook a gander at Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow and decided we'd try and recreate the headless horseman (actually the scene we recreated was the fake horseman with the flaming pumpkin) so we took a football (soccer ball?) and painted it orange. My friend put a top over his head. I ripped open the football and filled it with petrol from an old can in the garage. Friend holds it whilst blind, I set fire to it. Everythings okay. I get behind camera tell him to run towards me, he falls over, ball explodes, top on fire, 11 year olds screaming, he still has the scars on his hand.


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[Matt Kieley]

No one has ever gotten hurt, but the worst mistake I've made was forgetting to cut after a take. I'd hit record, thinking I'm rolling, when I've just cut, and rolling, thinking I've cut. So I'd basically wind up with a bunch of behind the scenes footage, between takes, but none of the takes of the scene I shot.

[BinBinProductions]

Ninjas are dicks.
They quite are.

[Kevinaz]

No one has ever gotten hurt, but the worst mistake I've made was forgetting to cut after a take. I'd hit record, thinking I'm rolling, when I've just cut, and rolling, thinking I've cut. So I'd basically wind up with a bunch of behind the scenes footage, between takes, but none of the takes of the scene I shot.

oh i've done that too many times.

I also forgot to set the exposure properly on an outdoor shot, so aaallll the footage turned out too bright. i ended up ditching the project. (it was about some kid on crack. he he.)

[yupfrank]

i think my worst has to be during my old super trio video when my brother was supposed to be flying and he was soppused to jump over me
he lands on me and the camera goes rolling
that is the footage we put in the video but good did it hurt me for days

[davethomasfilms]

Worst accident would have to be filming a fight scene. Let's just say Fists + Glasses = Vision Loss...

[ericslovechild]

1. Ninja Runs out.
2. Ninja swings sword.
3. Sword shatters into multiple pieces.

[Vaughn Whynot]

on a serious note
friend shot himself with a blank bullet....those things are still dangerous

[Ladri.]

on a serious note
friend shot himself with a blank bullet....those things are still dangerous

How the hell did he manage to do that?

[Vaughn Whynot]

it wasn't like ohh my god i am shot
but it gives off a flash and what not like a real bullet and gun
his dad owns a stunt service or something,
well it riped a whole chunk in his thumb
21 stitches
it was rad and gross at the same time

[Ladri.]

it wasn't like ohh my god i am shot
but it gives off a flash and what not like a real bullet and gun
his dad owns a stunt service or something,
well it riped a whole in his thumb
21 stitches
it was rad and gross at the same time

Damn, that does sound pretty crazy.

[Kevinaz]

on a serious note
friend shot himself with a blank bullet....those things are still dangerous

yeah. blanks are still pretty powerful from close range.

[Wraith 5]

yeah. blanks are still pretty powerful from close range.
Tell me about it.. I've been on a film shoot in a warehouse, and because this is Britain, and the government doesn't like anything that releases any form of projectile whatsoever.. the entire cast and crew ended up spending an hour being preached to by the health and safety guys that accompanied the blank-firing guns we'd commissioned for the shoot. I am now fully versed in every single possible situation that could arise from firing a blank-shooter.

[chainedflesh]

The last time I did a 48 hour film contest I stayed up the whole weekend and passed out in my chair while editing on suday morning. I came to at 4pm and the deadline was at 6 pm.

I was also working one my girlfriend's computer, because mine went to hell during editing. The only program I had was windows movie maker and the footage came out horrible.


Now I know better than to take on too many tasks by myself and I purchased a new computer that is extremely powerful as well as keeping my old one (now repaired) as a backup.

[MitchellStafiej]

Tripped over my wires when filming and broke my camcorder. Had to wait 3 months for it to be repaired... Not fun at all.

Mitch

[Nonsensical studios]

I once filmed a stop motion movie for several hours.



I lost the footage :'(

[Patuman]

I also forgot to set the exposure properly on an outdoor shot, so aaallll the footage turned out too bright. i ended up ditching the project. (it was about some kid on crack. he he.)

That would of suited the mood of the movie.
Kid on crack = overly bright and unwatchable, gives the audience a glimpse of life through the eyes of a junkie :D

[lio112]

I had a tub of fake blood some fake knifes plus rubber bodyparts in my moped backbox when a policeman pulled me over cos by backbox was slightly open. He looked inside, My teacher at the time had to come in and explain to the police I was on a film project.

I tried to slide over a car bonnet once and fell on the floor knocking the equipment over.

[Daniel-Bri]

This wasnt during filming but.
I was in my D.T class and was helping to stack a bunch of metal rods up on to the rack. Id just finished and i take a step back. About a second later a metal rod with a sharp end fall down point first exactly where I had been standing.

Any way this event then kick started a hour long discusion about the final destination movies.

[ipodmazter]

I was once filming in a school and there was the scene on an elevator. So, I was standing at the point where the doors come together. Now, this elevator was old, and it had not sensors. So the doors started to close and I jumped out of the way just in time!

[KMProductions]

We were filming a scene where the actor had to "fall out of the sky". So the actor was standing on a swingset top bar. (the part that is high up and the swings are attached to). When he jumped off his pants go caught on a screw and it ripped his jeans from the very bottom to the top. He was just hanging there with the biggest weggie of his life and so I had to get it on film. Then I had to get a ladder and get him down before he had any permanent damage. It's in our movie "Random Crap 2". Even though is was a mess up, it was so funny that we had to put it in there.

[KMProductions]

Oh yeah, Also one time I had to secure a Par Can on some bleachers that were (I don't know how to explain this) folded up you could say. Anyway I attached the light onto a PA speaker stand and set it on the back of the bleacher. I was pulling the power extension cord and I accidentally pulled the light off of the bleachers. It bent it up a bit but no real damage.
Then I used a whole role of gaffers tape to fix the light stand to the wall. haha



EDIT: I wont make another post but I'll tell another story...

I got punched in the face while filming a fight scene.

[Direktor]

I broke my school's GL2

[Fisherking]

I almost got shot by the police once.

When I was doing the effects on Left 4 Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqzwhNnL8U), we had a few shots with (armed) protagonists outside a warehouse in one of the psuedo-industrial parts of the suburb. We shot those with no issue and moved onto the interiors. A while later we heard police sirens and walked outside. There were four police cars, filled with officers armed and in vests. I came out with my hands up. The situation was thankfully defused as a number of zombies walked out to see what was happening.

We showed them the embarassingly-fake guns we were using (this is Australia, remember - a sufficiently realistic gun could see someone in jail). They finally left after half-an-hour or so, telling us that 11 cars had been sent for. No one was fined.

It's sheer providence that no one was hurt (the paranoia and sense of persecution amoung the Australian police force is terrifying) and that we were able to continue without issue, but let this serve as a lesson: Even if you're shooting on private property, tell the police what you're doing. If there's any chance of someone taking it seriously and calling the cops, it's better to defuse that shit before it happens.

[BoonMcNougat]

Spent a lot of my life a few years back on a little stick-figure animation program called Pivot. Made some damn fine movies. I uploaded about 3 of my best to YouTube, thank god, before the computer corrupted itself.

It felt like my childhood memories were wiped away, and replaced with burning salt.

Than my YouTube account got deleted, becuase I uploaded "Man Getting hit by a Football" from the simpsons, which is copyright infringement (it was a 15 second clip, they could've let it slide!) so I couldn't even get the animations that I did upload, back onto the new computer.

Damn the fact that it takes forever to animate!

[_ray_biddle_]

We had a fire in our first real short.

[WinstonTheWolf]

I was once filming a short entitled "A day with a bunch of babies",and a run away hot dog cart hit and killed all 10 babies......Oh god, its just to horrible to talk about.....

[_ray_biddle_]

I was once filming a short entitled "A day with a bunch of babies",and a run away hot dog cart hit and killed all 10 babies......Oh god, its just to horrible to talk about.....

Now if that was real we'd find it in the news but in case.


At least you could feed your crew!

[WinstonTheWolf]

Now if that was real we'd find it in the news but in case.


At least you could feed your crew!

Yeah we ate babies for like 3 weeks, frankly if smell a baby cooking for the rest of my life it will be to soon.

[_ray_biddle_]

Yeah we ate babies for like 3 weeks, frankly if smell a baby cooking for the rest of my life it will be to soon.


They're so tender though.