The Quicksilver Special Effects Blog

Discount Fireworks - 13-Oct-2011

As many of our customers already know, as well as providing special effects, Quicksilver also have a retail fireworks shop. For our existing SFX customers we are offering generous discounts and free delivery to unit base, as we know that during long filming hours it can be difficult to get out shopping. Contact us on 0161 320 7232 to get a discount code specific to your production. See ...more

Filed under: fireworks — Tags: Add new tag, Discount, explosives, firework display, fireworks — Darren Wallis @ 10:55 am

Blue Peter comes to Manchester - 26-Sep-2011

Local jobs for local people… Today saw the move of ...more

Filed under: General — Tags: 771 Sqadron, Add new tag, BBC, Blue Peter, media city, Royal Navy, Sea King Helicopter, Seaking Helicoper, smoke, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 3:45 pm

Are you feeling lucky? - 9-Sep-2011

10 Secrecy and confidentiality often surrounds our work, especially on soaps such as Coronati ...more

Filed under: Explosion SFX — Tags: Ant & Dec, explosives, ITV, Red or Black, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 7:56 am

Waiting In. - 13-May-2010

As the election results drifted in and the outcome, or lack of it, unfolded I started to feel sorry for the Queen on Friday. I can just imaging her conversation with Phillip over tea at the Palace - ”they promised that a new Prime Minister would be delivered on Friday, I waited in all day and nothing has arrived. One should have been out trooping the colour and walking the corgis̶ ...more

Filed under: General, Random — Tags: media city — Darren Wallis @ 10:39 am

Morrisons - 13-May-2010

I’m sure many of you have seen the latest Morrison’s commercial showing Top Gear’s Richard Hammond pushing his shopping trolley through various rural locations. We werent involved in every scene but the one scene we did work on is the part where he’s in the rain pulling his trolley across a cattle grid. That 10 seconds of footage took all day to film and for us, ...more

Filed under: General, Rain SFX, Random — Tags: morrisons, Rain, richard hammond, special effects — Wayne Bennett @ 9:28 am

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - 7-May-2010

I started writing this blog last year (yes, last year), but thought I had best finish it while references to current politicians were still accurate, I think I may only have minutes to go as they are assembling a lectern in Downing Street as I speak. Our office is at our shop/trade counter and on quieter days I will often serve customers to allow me to get away from doing the ...more

Filed under: Random — Darren Wallis @ 12:43 pm

The dog ate my homework - 15-Apr-2010

Having just had a visit from our web designers who also do all the other “techy stuff” to make sure it appears on Google, we have been well and truly told off. Being old (that is over 40) I’m still under the misapprehension that birds tweet and the news comes from Radio 4. How wrong I am, we need to twitter and the news comes from an app on your i-phone. Where is all this le ...more

Filed under: Fire & Smoke, General, Rain SFX, Snow SFX, Wind SFX — Tags: BBC, Co op, media city, Nike, Powerade, Warburton's — Darren Wallis @ 1:56 pm

Where have we been?? - 14-Apr-2010

Well, it’s been many months since we’ve posted a blog and we noticed it looks like we’ve been quiet and not done any work, which i can assure you is not the case. We’ve been busy with many TV productions and commercials since our last blog and my aim now is to try and remember what we’ve worked on and write a little about each project. So hopefully over the ...more

Filed under: General, Random — Wayne Bennett @ 2:15 pm

A rainy day - 13-Aug-2009

As I suspect with most other eager youngsters my view of special effects involved lots of setting fire to things or blowing them up or both. However, in reality for every caravan you blow up there are days and days of making it rain - it isn’t glamerous and you don’t get much of a smile from the crew. In fact there is a lot of water on TV that isn’t all that it seems to be, ...more

Filed under: Mechanical SFX, Rain SFX, Random — Tags: BBC, Cutting It, ITV, Rain, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 6:10 pm

Is there anybody out there? - 9-Jul-2009

When we started to put this site together the web designers stressed the importance of the blog - these days you’re nobody if your not twittering, blogging or on face-book, but is anybody reading it? Clearly there is as I have had lots of feedback from well meaning potential customers offering to replace my Rolex (they must be confused as it my Plastic Casio that needs a new strap) and se ...more

Filed under: General, Rain SFX, Random — Tags: Add new tag, Asda, Nike, Pataks, Rain, Virgin Trains — Darren Wallis @ 10:05 am

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