I couldn't believe they were so stupid and put a stop to it. Then they'd move in to the next mark and do it again, until the blade slashed through the shirt cutting into the bag of offal they had bought from the nearby butchers. They had marked the floor with tape, and with the camera running one slashed, and missed. The scene was a guy having his belly sliced open by a samurai with a sword. I went in to see how they were doing and my jaw dropped in horror - and I ran in panicking and stopped what they were doing. One day they asked if they could use the studio after college to finish a scene. always booking the studio and edit suites and we let them have a pretty free reign. When I was teaching media studies, I had two very keen students - always first in last out. Guns still scare me though! Having armourers, sword fight instructors and flight scenes always brings me out in a rash of paperwork - hate it! Not being remotely gun savvy, in that clip I found them quite believable - no idea if they were real or toys with good CGI, but I didn't laugh - which I normally do with bad CGI.

They also need to work in the case of automatics, don't they - to load the next blank. I really didn't think anything came out of them, but it does. My own experience with blanks was quite an eye opener.

In the US, you can buy a gun with your supermarket shopping with real bullets - which scares the hell out of us. The advice he gave to use a proper armourer in a production absolutely essential here. Any use of firearms, real, imitation and even things like starting pistols is rigidly controlled and monitored. I'm the holder of an Explosives Licence, issued to me personally by the Police Service of Northern Ireland - a quite tough to get document that allows me to possess, store and fire small pyrotechnics.

Brian's forgotten that from what I know, the US and Canada have a somewhat different attitude on firearms.

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