Quick ramble first, this does relate to electronics, I swear:
Slightly odd question, but I'm hoping someone can help me- I'm a uk based DOP shooting a short in early December; it's a night scene, WW2 era and features a very specific kind of submachine gun in use by the russian military of the time. The location we're using is adjacent to farmland, and while they've ok'd some limited pyro use they've expressly banned us from using blank firing weaponry, and we're having extreme difficulty sourcing a flashpaper (ie, mostly noiseless) version of the weapon we need.
My question is this; would anyone be able to produce a simple circuit that when triggered lit a series of LED's for anywhere between a 24th and a 1/2th of a second, roughly simulating the light from a muzzleflash? Ideally this would repeat- as in, hold down a push to make and the LED continues flashing until you stop pressing the button.
The armourer tells me the rate of fire of the real weapon is approx 15 rounds per second, so if it's possible to make an LED flash 15 times in a second, that would be ideal, but it's not the be-all-end-all; I'm just insistent that we utilise a weapon with practical light like a real muzzleflash as opposed to an all digital muzzle flash for the shots using this weapon, as although I think this can be done quite convincingly in daylight it often looks horrendeous in a night scene (failing to cast any shadows etc).
If anyone is aware of a way to do this, and willing to build it, I'd be willing to pay for the materials, build time and cost of shipping upfront via a method of your choosing (ideally something like PayPal). And if you fancy a credit on the finished film, you can name yourself something like Senior Electronics Adviser or whatever takes your fancy, so there's that!
Cheers in advance for any help, and apologies if this sort of request is woefully against forum etiquette in any way!
Slightly odd question, but I'm hoping someone can help me- I'm a uk based DOP shooting a short in early December; it's a night scene, WW2 era and features a very specific kind of submachine gun in use by the russian military of the time. The location we're using is adjacent to farmland, and while they've ok'd some limited pyro use they've expressly banned us from using blank firing weaponry, and we're having extreme difficulty sourcing a flashpaper (ie, mostly noiseless) version of the weapon we need.
My question is this; would anyone be able to produce a simple circuit that when triggered lit a series of LED's for anywhere between a 24th and a 1/2th of a second, roughly simulating the light from a muzzleflash? Ideally this would repeat- as in, hold down a push to make and the LED continues flashing until you stop pressing the button.
The armourer tells me the rate of fire of the real weapon is approx 15 rounds per second, so if it's possible to make an LED flash 15 times in a second, that would be ideal, but it's not the be-all-end-all; I'm just insistent that we utilise a weapon with practical light like a real muzzleflash as opposed to an all digital muzzle flash for the shots using this weapon, as although I think this can be done quite convincingly in daylight it often looks horrendeous in a night scene (failing to cast any shadows etc).
If anyone is aware of a way to do this, and willing to build it, I'd be willing to pay for the materials, build time and cost of shipping upfront via a method of your choosing (ideally something like PayPal). And if you fancy a credit on the finished film, you can name yourself something like Senior Electronics Adviser or whatever takes your fancy, so there's that!
Cheers in advance for any help, and apologies if this sort of request is woefully against forum etiquette in any way!