Modifying equipment

 

When hired mechanical props are required to perform in vision, they are invariably modified by effects technicians. Typical are gaming machines, coffee makers, lawn mowers, washing machines and so on. Problems are quite often encountered when these devices are wanted to operate ‘normally’.

A typical example might be a gaming machine required to deliver its jackpot. Whether the old fashioned one-armed bandit or the later illuminated display machine, these devices are highly complex and to make them work on cue is by no means easy.

Cloned functions

If coins are to pour from a gaming machine it is sometimes simpler to insert a dummy chute from which coins are tipped in from behind. In some cases a close-up shot of a dummy ...

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