Author Topic: Fight Scene blood master
posted 04-25-1999 03:17 PM
What is the best way to plan out a fight scene? How should we practice doing it?

Jm
posted 04-25-1999 03:25 PM
No real methods to help, but I do have a bit of advice. Make sure the actors have the sequence down pat, if it's too long only film it in segments one at a time.

If they don't have it memorized problems will happen. I watched two friends of mine in a scene and one forgot a certain move and ducked too early... only to duck right into the other guy's uppercut. Ended the scene pretty quickly.

Jm

captainfrag
posted 04-25-1999 08:53 PM
Well i hope you know all the stuff about rolling with the pubches, when you punch the other guy don't make contact, etc. Anyway, if you've taken karate and tae kwan doe as long as i have and seen enough kung fu flicks, you kinda get a feel for martial arts. Just kinda let it flow, and rehearse it a lot before the fight. Nothing looks cheesier than a fight scene that the actors make up as they go along(also it's pretty dangerous, i missed the gun and kicked the guy's elbow, but the gun fell out). When you are ready, only do a few moves every shot. Vary the angles and don't show more than 2 moves per angle.

Bernd Truckses
posted 04-26-1999 07:57 AM
What kind of fight do you want to perform
(weaponless, stick-stick, knife, sword etc)?
As captainfrag said, the best thing to get a feeling for fighting, distance and "real look" is practising martial arts.

For weapon - fights is also good to practise with Bo (long stick 1.80m) and Hanbo (half length of Bo) - this are standart weapons and if you can handle them good, itīs easy for you to learn other weapons (a good book for those techniques is "Stick - Fighting" from soke Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, grandmaster and head of the famous Bujinkan Dojo, the only authentic and proven Ninjustu school and organisation in the world, containing 9 several traditional japanese martial arts schools).

For weapon - fights (sword to sword, stick to stick, sword to stick) we always have this rules:

1) fight against the weapon, not against the opponents body.
2) distance: fight always with savety distance, so that if you missed a block, youīre not struck down by the opponents weapon.
3) choreography: work out an choreography, divide it into short sequences and practise them. Write good sequences down, so you can use them for other fights. If you fight a combination of some sequences with the right distance, and you miss a block, you can just step back and start with the interupted sequence again - the audience don't realize that.
Also with a goof fundus of fighting sequences, you can arrange a new fight for a new event in a few minutes...

With practising a lot and a good "feeling" for a fight, the audience donīt recognize thet you're fighting only against the weapons and with safety distance. Also mistakes gives the fight a touch of reality - in a real sword - sword fight, they often hit the air and have to take some seconds of rest, because swords are heavy ...

So long, mail for further questions (bernd@vorsprung.de)
ciao
Bernd

P.S.: Wow, that UBB is nice

[This message has been edited by Bernd Truckses (edited 04-26-99).]

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