Planning a feature film, TVC or TV production with winter effects takes careful planning to ensure the right amount of materials and expertise are in the right location at the right time.
Our experienced team of Wintersmiths can guide you through the pre-production planning for your project, and are experts at finding creative, pragmatic solutions that satisfy your vision as well as your budget.
This guide provides some key considerations and examples of past projects to help you plan and execute the perfect shot.
Pre-Production Planning
Getting the look
From a raging light flurry to a raging blizzard, melting spring snow to an artic drift and anything in-between, we have the experience, expertise, equipment and products to create exactly the look you need.
Falling Snow
We have the largest fleet and widest range of professional artificial falling snow equipment in the region. The snow effect is non toxic, non staining, self clearing and fast evaporating. Used on thousands of sets for over 40 years there is no equal.
Floating Etherial
Light Flurry
Heavy Snow
Blizzard
Settled Snow
Our settled snow effect is pure cellulose, biodegradable and safe for actors and the environment. Dressed with specialist equipment and certified winter effect technicians we can create any look you need. Fireproof snow is also available for studio shoots.
Morning Frost
Light Coverage
Heavy Coverage
Drifts & Dirty Snow
Vegetation
Buildings
Actors
Interaction
Ice and Frozen
Artificial Ice is very useful for projects where continuity and safety are required. For example we are able to float a highly photorealistic artificial ice effect simulating a frozen lake that actors fall through. Thankfully the water does not need to be cold.
Icicles
Frozen Sets & Props
Ice Caves
Floating Ice
Our cellulose grey and black products allow us to create the look of fire damage for volcanic, war torn and apocalyptic scenes. Once shooting is wrapped we are able to return the location back to normal by simply washing the effect away.
Burnt, Ash and Apocalyptic Scenes
Fire Damage
War Scenes
Explosive Residue
Dystopian Sets
Area and Costing
Most of our effects are costed by area in square meters. Please try to be as realistic as possible when considering number of retakes that may be necessary and if the set needs to be reset fully in between takes.
We recommend using an area calculator such as GPS Field Measure to determine the size of the location.
GPS Fields Area Measure
