How can an actor fall 6 ft (1.83m) safely?
Posted by David Miller I once had the misfortune of being production manager on Sherlock Holmes, in the first scene Holmes and Moriarty fell from around 12 feet. Although not terribly appropriate for a stage production we used the film technique of falling onto a huge pile of cardboard boxes. A professional stuntman was employed as a consultant and coach to the actors. The boxes were preset behind scenery at the top of the show and all piled onto a large tarpaulin which was simply dragged onto the sidestage in the scene change. We used a pile of around 16 2’x 2’x 2′ boxes of which 3 or 4 were crushed so much we couldn’t use them again (most can be recycled for other performances. It was very safe and very effective, the actors were able to do a proper, nasty looking fall rather than looking like they were jumping off a garden wall! I must say however that we did all this with the very best professional advice we could find, don’t take this as advice on how you should do it unless you a
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