Movie Stunt Magic Show

Author: (English) James Pringle
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Publish Date: 2004-05-18
Features: Global simultaneous release, the gold standard of juvenile science popularization! Awarded the prestigious international science book award, the Jan van Helden Prize! Crafted by top European children's science writers! Beijing Children's Publishing House proudly presents! The most anticipated science book of the year! Making the impossible possible, the perfect combination of science popularization and humor is Horrible Science! At first, people believed that gods descended from heaven to visit the world. Later, someone used a camera to enlarge their own head. Now, people use computers to make animals talk, aliens walk, and dinosaurs roam around you. Horrible Science: Movie Magic takes you on a journey to uncover the secrets of movie special effects—including the supercomputing power of multi-million dollar computers and the special audiovisual effects you create while rehearsing school performances. After helping you find the best way to create a bizarre movie character costume that defies gravity, it will also tell you why you can make a realistic lighting set with half a cabbage. After reading this book, you will be able to direct your own Armageddon—Earth's Revenge and handcraft bleeding props.