Part of the job was a miniature snow effects set.
Jody does a great job on this sort of thing. She seems to have a natural talent for shoveling snow, probably because it's full size snow to her!
I put the scissors in for a scale reference. After the snow gets gently tamped to remove the brush marks, we spend quite a while with the compressor, gently blowing the baking soda, letting it drift and carve, just like it's full size counterpart. It's not hard to imagine the upper photo as being a real landscape in the arctic.
This was one of the sets that needed to be dressed. We didn't build it, we just had to dress it
The first step was to get the snow berms laid, and the chicken wire stapled down. This will be the structure for the snow blanket.
With the chicken wire all in place, we rolled out the fluffy blankets, and overlap the seams away from camera.
We use 2 different sized snow flakes on set. We use a large polyflake, which is a ground up white plastic, for the background due to it's larger texture. For the close to camera snow, we use a ground up styrofoam flake, which is amazing, and ultra-realistic even up super close.
It was a great shoot, that's for sure!
Back to the Zerby Derby.
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JWO
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