Book description
The Theatrical Firearms Handbook is the essential guide to navigating the many decisions that are involved in the safe and effective use of firearm props for both the stage and screen.
This book establishes baseline safety protocol while empowering performers and designers to tell their story of conflict in a way that makes the most of both established convention and current tools of the trade. Within these pages are practical instruction couched in the language of theatre and film, making firearms technology and concepts approachable to dramatic artists without any dumbing-down of the subject material. It contains over 100 illustrations
This handbook is equally at home within the worlds of academic training, professional performance, and independent or community theatre and video productions, and is an invaluable resource for fight choreographers, props designers, backstage crew, directors, actors, stage managers, and more, at all levels of experience.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Basic Firearms 101
- Chapter 2: Arming Your Actors
- Chapter 3: Acquiring Props
- Chapter 4: Backstage Protocol and Gun Wrangling
- Chapter 5: Looking the Part
- Chapter 6: Staging Your Shootout
- Chapter 7: Shooting Your Shootout
- Chapter 8: Troubleshooting
- Chapter 9: Consequences
- Chapter 10: The Realities of Modern Combat
- Chapter 11: Covering Yourself: Professional Standards and Legal Issues
- Appendix A: Glossary of Terms
- Appendix B: Diagrams of Representative Models
- Appendix C: Additional Resources
- Appendix D: Sample Checklist and Waiver
- Index
- List of Credits
Product information
- Title: The Theatrical Firearms Handbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2014
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317859819
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