Fake Snow in the Movies: Prop Master Scott Reeder.
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Remember when they used asbestos in The Wizard of Oz for the poppy snow scene? Yeah, that was fun
And they painted the original tin man with metal paint and he got metal poisoning
@@EzekiesAcheron what metal
@@gmodiscool14 the first tin man had aluminum dust over white face paint, which caused severe lung problems when he inhaled it. They hired a replacement actor who was painted with a metallic paste, and he had to miss four days of filming for an eye infection but didn't suffer any long-term injury.
@@aprofessionalateverything7585 Buddy Epson from Beverly Hillbillies
They didn't know any better back then, but they tried asbestos they could
I love how many of his stories are about items that were specifically made to be silent to keep the sound guy happy, then he pulls out a snow machine that sounds like a Sherman tank with a hole in it's muffler.
Most of snowstorm scenes are silent
If you want to know something sort of depressing, in the AZ desert, where I live, families buy that fake sodium snow stuff for Christmas celebrations. They also have fake snowballs made from wool or cotton that you throw at eachother.
There's even companies you can hire that have trucks with special machines that are like woodchippers, but for ice. It makes snow, and they will make a pile of snow in your yard, then all the kids will play in it.
How is that at all depressing? You should try coming to the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas is a summer holiday, we spend Christmas Day at the beach or having a barbecue with friends and all manner of family. It’s way less depressing than being frozen cold hiding inside a dimly lit house with your siblings and parents
It snows up here in Pinetop Az..
first world problems
*sips coffee in filipino* Yeah our christmases are usually rainy and windy as fuck
@@lavasharkandboygirl9716 that's just strange wtf
Not so fun fact: In the olden days of filmmaking (think wizard of Oz times) they would use asbestos as snow. The poppy field scene where the good witch sends snow to the scarecrow, lion, tinman, and Dorothy used asbestos as snow.
Oh my god 😳
@@miranda13c ikkk
can someone explain to me what asbestos is
I get it's some kind of toxic stuff but idk lol
@@peepeepoopoodoodoohead its a fire-proof mineral that is cheap to make and can be used in many kinds of applications, from welding gloves to drum brakes. However, if inhaled it is very dangerous long term as it causes cancer.
@@normiukkeli3739 :0 thank you
Whenever he makes those jokes he has a straight face on. Makes it ten times funnier
You think he’s funny?
@@declanp1 yes
@@meowify69420 wow
@@declanp1 We all got snow sense of humor
@@declanp1 really? Are you some comedy elitist lmao?? Comedy is subjective. What someone finds funny, another may not. There's tons of content creators on here I scroll past because I don't enjoy them. But you just HAD to comment, huh? Lmfao
How do you clean it up?? Dude.... Just realized I got old. My first thought was "wow.. that's gonna leave a mess".
Wait fake snow is that weird stuff in diapers?! That's hilarious!
As someone who lives in Northern Michigan, it's pretty easy to tell when it's fake snow in TV/Movies, especially the "falling snow". It's cool to see the methods used!
Ayy i'm in michigan too
You talk like you have a monopoly on knowing what snow looks like. I've seen snow before too, and the fake snow looks pretty real.
@@scienceboy20814 Well, you've got different types of snowfall: Ice Pellets (Sleet & Small Hail), Hail, Snow Flakes, Snow Grains, and Snow Pellets. When the same method is repeatedly used in productions, it becomes easier to tell. The soap method used produces something similar to pellets, but behaves more like flakes. Not to mention, it also has a tendency to not melt on contact with warm objects or skin.
@@scienceboy20814 there’s a difference between seeing it and living in it for almost half the year. Also from Michigan, movie snow looks fake as shit. Mix that with cgi breath and and the whole scene falls apart.
@@kek8695 same
I think hes just doing this for the puns
normally these are pretty confusing, but icy how this one works.
Question, why cant they use the ground and throw it in the air instead of making a different kind of snow for the floating kind?
I think because they float easily and give a kind of "melting" when touching skin
Because as you see in the vid the fake snow doesn't seem like actual snow just looks like it so if it fell in the air it wouldn't look real plus it's too heavy to look like it's falling like real snow. Andddd it would be expensive to have to use a bunch of that instead of some soap suds
I’m assuming it would be too heavy so it wouldn’t look like it was raining.It would look more like hailstones or something.And plus the “falling snow” goes through the machine as a mixture assuming so the snow is made as it goes through.So it could be too heavy for the machine too.
Sodium polyacrylate is far denser than real snow, the falling mechanics wouldn't look accurate at all and would be so easily noticeable
Costs more probably
Oh the puns! I can't help it, I love them. We sometimes call them "Dad jokes" here in the UK. I've banned my husband from telling dad jokes unless our daughter is present. But sometimes we'll get on the pun train and play pun tennis for ages. Love your videos! They are PROPer good (yep, we really say that in London).
How do yall clean up and dispose of the ground snow? Does it dry out for reuse?
You're giving me a brain freeze with all these icy puns. Lol
What do you guys do with the "ground snow" after? Is it thrown away or dehydrated and reused?
Thrown away
So glad you keep going with the puns vid after vid. I was afraid you might flake on us
Are there environmental concerns with either of these? How hard is it to clean after?
What about for massive sets with snow? Is this mostly cg?
The crew cleans it up! However, movie sets are huge producers of trash so yayyy fun
There are definitely plenty of environmental concerns when it comes to making movies, between the prop production, using vinyl fake paper bags for example, and other things. Not to mention how much water he mentioned needs to be used to make snow, to me this really points at how much better for the environment it would be to instead of having all these props and such that use real materials, why not just do digital animation using solar power? Of course that's not going to happen all together all the time, but it seems like ultimately that's the best way to make film. I know a lot of people like things that are actually live action and such, but the state the environment is in, Plus the limitless imagination of illustration, it seems we are better off with animation as a means of making film.
Get a life !
For massive sets it’s often a combination based on how close the camera is to it, whether people will be walking on it, vehicles driving on it, or anyone’s interacting with it.
Paper snow is finely shredded paper fired out of a tube mixed with a small amount of water that looks great on foliage etc and is good for driving over as it leaves tyre marks. Because it’s wet though it sticks to everything which is good for trees and foliage but not so good for vertical surfaces where snow wouldn’t naturally settle.
For big areas closer to camera magnesium sulfate (epsom salts) is fantastic, it crunches under your feet and leaves footprints. It also glistens in the sun like snow, but it doesn’t look great in the hand or super close up, which is where polymer snow is perfect. Mag sulfate is good for sprinkling onto window ledges, tops of walls etc where paper snow can’t easily be applied in a way that looks natural.
For large areas of deep background we can use thick snow foam or terram (white geotextile membrane/fabric that’s used for building and landscaping).
@@TheMancaver have fun in the future when you aren’t prepared for many environmental crises we are facing today! Wishing you safety
I come for the props, I stay for the puns🤴🏻
I would LOVE to play with that fake snow. It looks so soft and fluffy!
Love this channel. Can’t wait to see more
Hollywood secrets I’ve always been curious!
Every time he finishes with a pun I'm thinking he's got nothing. Next thing you know it's pun city and I'm sitting here thinking "this guy did it again"
In colder climates when the filming location hasn't gotten snow yet or the snow is grayish they will use ice machines. Plus they dont have to clean it up afterwards. It's cool when you're walking around a big city and just a block or two is all covered in snow because they were filling there the day before.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World made/ used real snow. And Just Friends filmed with the real stuff that fell from the sky (and the actors were actually rosey cheeked and freezing their buts off)
If you go to Warner brothers studios the making of Harry Potter studio tour during December they teach you all about their fake snows in the movies, they not only used these two snows but they also used finely shredded paper for falling snow so it would fall slowly and gently, or should I say snowly, sorry had the opportunity, have a good one!
This is what I have been wondering for so long! Now I know what the fake snow is made of
The bad puns are excellent 🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧🇺🇸
As someone who experiences snow at least four months every year it's so easy to see when they use fake snow in movies. It doesn't melt on the actors, or reflects light like real snow and it doesn't behave like real snow when disturbed. I bet it could fool someone from a place without winters though.
Groundhog Day made me a bit late for work, when they were filming the highway scene...in summertime. As I recall, the "snow" stayed there pretty much until winter had come and gone, making me think they used paint on the ground/grass. It started looking bad fairly soon after they were done filming. You'd think they'd have been required to clean up after themselves.
I enjoy your content a lot. It's addicting!🤗
I came for the info on props, but I stay for the dad jokes. They're very punny
THAT’S SNOW JOKE!!!! HAHAHAHA
I LOVE YOUR PUNS!!!
How hard is it to clean up the ground snow? Seems like it's not something you wanna just leave out in nature.
Yeah I am very curious about this also
When we did it we used rakes, then brooms, then shovels to clean it up. Honestly annoying lol
The way he looks away after he says the pun 😂😂😂
He's such a cool dude👍
I know some movie used potato flakes because of the sled dogs, so they could eat it if they got it on their fur.
Yeah… his puns are my favorite part of these vids
This is cool I was wondering about fake snow when I was watching Dexter New Blood
I just love that he looks off camera after he says the puns!
The first time I got to experience the floating snow in action was when I was an extra on The Handmaid’s Tale, it was so magical to see. The downside was seeing the poor prop department have to squeegee it off the set between takes and the vinyl or whatever material they used to cover some of the set pieces start warp and peel away. Gorgeous scene in the end though. Set dec, props, and all you guys rock! ❤
The dad jokes 😂
flashing backs to when dan made *a lot* of fake snow for christmas…
My dad passed away four weeks ago.
....I'm watching your vids two days non stop just for the jokes
Im so, so sorry you have to go through that.
Axl rose says its really fun to breathe on the shredded plastic snow
I love this guy
I like the way he looks away at the end of the puns
Floridians know the floating snow all too well
Up until I was like 8, I thought snow was actually made of soap suds because in Australia (it deadass never snows) I’d only ever seen it at like movie world or some shit like that and they just used soap. Now I’m 16 and still haven’t seen real snow.
There’s snow way he’s got more jokes!
I come for the info, I stay for the dad jokes….
Man those snow pubs were COLD
Love your Dad jokes 😆
This dude is a pun blizzard, I mean wizard
Now the fun part
*Cleaning*
You just 'plow' through the puns and we get the 'drift',in your business sometimes you 'walk on thin ice',but you sir 'slurrtainly' have the 'globes'.
I guess we could call you a snowman too ☃️
Darn it you got me again with the puns
Iorc Game of Thrones needed huge amounts of snow, so they came up with something that used finely shredded paper and water and some other mixture. Totally biodegradable. One guy took care of it all, he was the 'snow master '
That Powder that makes the snow, in the Magic world it's called Slush Powder and is used in a lot of different effects. You use it any time you wanna vanish a liquid.
Why does the falling snow machine look like a printer lmao
Freaking amazing!
Oooh that explains why it looks fuzzy on peoples hair, jackets etc. very cool
When they filmed Dark a knight rises in Pittsburgh I grabbed about of the fake snow. Still have it. It seems like finely shredded paper. Seems like a mess to clean up compared to these
That’s exactly what it is. We generally use paper snow for the ground as it’s a fraction of the cost of sodium polyacrylate/polymer snow and more environmentally friendly. Bags of it get dumped into a wood chipper type machine and blown out of a handheld tube mixed with a small amount of water.
This guys voice reminds me of Kevin Costner
Well thanks!!
_One would think a_ Prop Master _would be an aviation-related job title...._
I actually knew the soap one just because I live in the south and they had it at a christmas tree lighting once, simply because it was nowhere near freezing whatsoever.
Just remember the difference between snowman and a snowwoman..Snowballs! 😉👍😁
I've found that wet cotton makes the most realistic looking fake show. It looks 100% authentic unlike soap or polymer
Love the puns!
remember in victories when trina was “flocking” the tree, memories…
I always wondered about the fake snow! 😃
INSTANT SNOW I live in the hot desert, where the winters are in the 80s and the stuff he uses as ground snow is a staple, you can build snowmen, throw snowballs, and generally mess around from home, though if you really want real snow, we have some mountain towns like payson and flagstaff and they get real snow, it’s just an hour or two from major cities which isn’t so bad if you had to deal with so many people doing the exact same and making it a pain to go since that 1-2 hours quickly becomes 4-5 and usaully with kids in there.
Another possible name. “ I can’t believe it’s not snow. Lol
We also use snow blankets and fish ice.
There’s no business like snow business
Another pun filled episode!
I remember going to Disney around Christmas, seeing the soap suds in the air and got so excited about the snow. Little me didn't listen to my parents telling me it was fake, I was very sad about it and still am :(
I love your jokes 😂
I have no idea why I like your posts, but I do! 😁👍👌
This makes me want to go back to school because most of it is in winter
snow wonder it looks so good
Came for the knowledge, subscribed for the puns! Lol.... You're def my new fave channel!
I've also heard of using potato flakes for fake snow
At least he didn’t drift off topic….
I gotta ask why not use an actual snow machine like they have at ski resorts Unless if it's because of the noise or the fact that they pump out massive amounts of snow
I’m pretty sure those only pump out water that freeze in the cold air… there are apparently machines for chipping ice though but thing is it will melt so not ideal for film making. They don’t even use real ice in glasses or else it would melt
In home alone they used instant potato flakes when the family comes home at the end.
Even among your witty videos, this one is *particularly* good!
Me:
Everywhere the wind blows!
Doesn't really matter to me!
To me!
Slush powder for you magicians out there...
Snow fakes is my fave
At my middle school dances the DJ brings out the bubble snow one and sometimes the black lights would turn on and the people that got snowed on would have white specs every where.
i’m a floridian and already knew about the fake snow lol
Here in Buffalo we just wait till November. You’re more than welcome to take as much as you want! Or better yet just film here during the winter season!
Ill go thru a day of work.
For one dad pun.
And you fullfill me
Being from the prop business you'd probably know. Did they actually use asbestos as snow in wizard of oz
The machine looks like a printer.
Haha I knew it!! If you look closely at the ground snow in home alone!! It looks like soap bubbles lol
I think they use the soap kind at Disney Springs at Christmas for the Christmas tree trail
Should have saved this material for the holidays man
I drove past some local storefronts with Christmas decorations up for a film shoot just this afternoon, so it’s a pretty timely video for when holiday movies tend to actually be shot. Late, even lol
Just make sure Sodium polyacrylate never goes into your washing machine 🤦♀️
Speaking from experience
Doesnt the soap suds make it super slick on set?
My vote’s for Faux Flakes