You will need a digital video camera, of course, as well as some props, some enthusiastic 'actors' and a computer with editing software, but you'll find everything you need to know about making your own movie in this fascinating book. Here you can learn how to create the visual effects and exciting action found in Hollywood movies. Discover how to make fake blood using glucose syrup, water and food colouring, create a UFO by means of a lampshade, make it rain with the aid of a hosepipe off camera, give your actors scary peeling skin by rubbing wood glue onto their hands or stage a dreadful accident by splodging mashed fruit and fake blood 'spattered brains' onto the pavement. This book takes you through all the techniques you will need to make a movie with special effects including camera illusions, visual effects, editing illusions, safe stunts, sound, make-up, night shoots, weather and production effects, while metallic coloured confetti produces amazing, out-of-this-world sparkling effects when filmed falling against a black backdrop. After reading all this, your next production may not win an Oscar, but will certainly be head and shoulders above the average home movie. Softback. 192pp. Colour illus.