From the course: Creating a Short Film: 06 Working on Set

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Building torches

Building torches

- For the night scene in the Assurance, we needed something to motivate the warm lighting that comes from this side of the scene. So we decided to use torches. Before the Assurance I'd never made torches. I didn't know anything about them at all. So I did some research and put together a little recipe of how to make them after doing some homework. Now before you actually make a torch, please watch the next tutorial about safety and remember that fire can kill you and destroy everything you love. So please be careful and do this at your own risk. Basically there are three components of a torch, a piece of wood, a fuel, and something to soak up the fuel, usually some type of fabric. For the sticks, we actually got permission from our location to take all the wood we needed from this really huge pile. That was amazing. 'Cause it's actually a lot harder to find the perfect torch stick than you might think. For the fuel, we tried a few different things and had success with both lamp oil…

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