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
Hollyoaks - 11-Apr-2009
“I’ve never worked as hard in my life as I have this week”. That was the comment made by Jonathan on Thursday evening after his involvement in his first major SFX job. I have to admit, I found it hard work myself, but then again I am used to it. Darren, Andy, Steve, Jonathan and I have been at Hollyoaks all week working on an episode involving lots of fire and collapsing stair ...more
Filed under: Explosion SFX,Fire & Smoke,Random — Wayne Bennett @ 7:51 am
Vidic, Berbatov & the Christie Bear - 2-Apr-2009
Anybody in business will be familiar with receiving requests for help from charities and being involved in Mountain Rescue (www.kmrt.org.uk) I also see the other side – we are currently trying to raise £25,000 to expand our current team headquarters. However the phone call on the morning in question came from one of the local hospitals, The Christie ...more
Filed under: Explosion SFX,fireworks — Tags: Add new tag, explosives, Kinder Mountain Rescue Team, Man United — Darren Wallis @ 2:56 pm
Week ending 3/4/09 - 30-Mar-2009
The Bookies Fire episode for Corrie is being aired this week and we’re all looking forward to seeing the final cut. The scenes involving our effects were filmed over 4 days about a month ago. Some great pictures and footage were available on ITV.com prior to the episode being aired which was good. I was interviewed at one point so that might end up on ITV’s website. ...more
Filed under: Explosion SFX,Fire & Smoke,General,Random — Tags: Coronation Street, Corrie, Man United, special effects, Virgin Trains — Wayne Bennett @ 11:04 am