Male1: This week on Backyard FX we are going to show you how to make it rain.
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Male2: This is Karen from Nagaro Films, I am doing my Masters and one of the things I need for this is a great inexpensive rain machine.
Male1: Now, the rain machine is a viewer request from John Lester, Erin Etchler and Dark Etsky. All of which wanted a consistent way to make movie rain on the cheap. Now to see how cheap let us have Garry spin the wheel prosperity.
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Male1: Getting busy, 50 dollars
Now, earlier I said movie rain instead of regular rain on purpose. Now, movie rain needs to have bigger and fatter droplets otherwise, the camera will not pick it up. Do not believe me? Next time it is real raining, grab your video camera and find out for yourself.
Male3: Shopping list!
Male1: A 50 foot garden hose, miscellaneous hose fittings, some cheap wood for the frame, zip-ties, four I-bolts and a rope.
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Male4: Where am I?
Male1: Where do you think?
Male4: No!
Male1: It is cool we still have got the thread-banger.
Male4: Yes!
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Male1: Here is the basic set-up for the rain machine. Using two pieces of wood that are about six feet long we are going to make a big X. Now we are going to reinforce this with smaller pieces of wood, like so. Next, we are going to add four I-bolts here, here, here and here, after that comes the hose which you are going to coil around the frame that we just built. Now zip-tie the hose to our wooden frame and then go along the hose and drill a hole on the top every four inches, the last step is to cap one into the hose and add a valve to the other.
“Super Time Lapse”
Now for this project, I decided to go away from the more traditional PVC rain machine design and the reason being is you might you already have an old hose where some old two by four is laying around the house which is going to make this project really cheap.
Now in order to make your rain effect more believable, you are going to want to do a couple things. First, wet down the surrounding area and also shoot in the shade. We were lucky enough for our test film to have it be over-cast. But even if it is bright and sunny day, usually wait until later and shoot in the shade of your house or tall building.
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Male1: If you are using clamp lights, do yourself a favor and but some true colored bulbs, they are a little more expensive but worth it.
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Male5: Hi! This is Sam from California and my top independent resource sites are www.creativecow.net or the best, pretty much, any proper tutorial.
Male6: People who are just starting to add up their videos, definitely check out www.windowsmoviemakers.net
Male7: CD textures for textures for 3D stuff the www.almightydetonationfilms.com.
Male8: The first one I actually found out of was www.makeinternettv.org because it has like how to publish your videos, How to promote them, how to edit them.
Male9: And my favorite www.videoco-pilot.net
Male1 Do not worry Chris Clone, you are going to go to Clone Heaven.
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