Thanks, Tom for this video. I bought your Lighting Dozen Tutorial, and this is the perfect video to complement that awesome rain cinematography segment.
Obviously I love your work Tom, back in college we'd even watch your videos as a reference to filmmaking advice, i'm sure anyone can build one of these contraptions and it looks amazing and on such a much larger scale but I just created a video as an alternative to getting a sweet practical rain effect, it's on a small scale but it's incredibly easy and handy because you can take it absolutely anywhere without having to build anything, it's outside the box as well and I believe it would really help out so many people if they were looking for a great alternative to this, you even get an awesome blood splatter effect with it!
Absolutely mind-blowing. I always thought to get that effect you needed a huge 1,000 gallons per minute water pump and a crazy apparatus to disperse the water. This is awesome. Thanks :)
Great! So I'm thinking... since I'm filming under trees I can just run a, decent quality, sprinkler hose through some branches and turn on the rain. Trying to keep my next short film as low budget as possible. This info will really help. I think this might be epic :) I'm going to use it in conjunction with a smoldering campfire FX I came up with in my last short film. Thanks
sephiroth x my friend a 55 gallon drum of water you can also rent one of those portable water tanks that you see in the parking lots when a parking lot is closed for the night and somebody go out there and power wash
Tom Antos hey Tom, by the way, in that intro, it seems like you were *only* using the garden hose... if this is correct, the shot was really impressive and very very real looking. Amazing you accomplished that only with the garden hose. ( when the cam zoomed out, that what I saw, unless you had both garden hose AND pvc pipes ( sprinklers ) working also....
Yup the opening shot was the first rain machine with just the garden hose and the last shot in the tutorial is done using the PVC rain machine. They both work great, but the PVC sprays the water a bit longer and it doesnt break as easily.
Dang, I wish I would have watched this a few months ago, I disposed of a folding mattress bedframe that might have worked well as a support frame for the PVC. I am going to try this out though.
For the opener, I would have started with a shot of your getting out of the car in the rain, fidgeting with the umbrella, and soaking, rain stopping, then pull pack to the setup. That's just me. I'll try this set up.
10:06 you could probably get away with using open zip ties and grip the zips with closed zips on the vertical end followed by the same process on the horizontal I think.
We had a rain machine and while using it at night TONS of bugs came to visit, it ruined the scene. Reason is it had been dry and there was no water elsewhere, we solved it by flooding part of the road a few yards away from the rain machine, all the bugs went to the pool of water which formed in a run on the side of the road. It's actually funny to see this were gonna keep it as an outtake
You gave me an idea, how about since it's not going in the ground, you use Electrical PVC Schedule 80 and I guarantee it won't bend... And or sister it to two 10' pieces of 3/4 EMT conduit for support... Think I'll do that and thanks for the idea...
Great job! A little question though, I need to get the same effect going but on a city street, where I won't have direct connection to a private water supply (it's all appartment blocks around here), do you or anybody else have some tips on how to do this?
if your in the city then there is always water connections on every building. just ask the owners of a building nearby for permission to connect. You'll be surprised how many people will let you connect water or power if you ask nicely :-)
Hey how's it going, I know i'm super late to this party but if you haven't found a portable alternative I think you'll love the video I just posted because I found the perfect way to do this effect, you don't need to build a huge contraption and you can take it absolutely anywhere, it's definitely worth checking out because I don't think anyone else has used my method before, definitely one of the best / easiest ways to get the effect anywhere, I hope it helps!
@@Zegeebwah it's the blood splatter effect one 😄 personally I really like the rain effect but people only seemed interested in the similar blood spraying effect you get with it so I figured I'd just shorten the name for them 😬
2 main and important things stayed SECRET for me 1. where you hold the water and how much liter you take with you? 2. How you press water, that it throw out from tubes' holes? (sorry if there is grammar mistake)
Hi Tom, We built your second design for a school project but are having trouble getting the sprinklers to spray at all. Did you have to adjust your sprinkler heads in some way to control the flow of the water? Thanks!
Awesome overall especially the night scene there. But I wouldn't run from the axe wielding dude like that, I'd dent my front bumper with him. Very deeply. Thanks Tom Antos.
It would be more rigid if you flipped the pieces of wood 90 degrees on their side. Wouldn't be so much flex in it. You could easily just drill a hole through them all and use a bolt/stick/whatever to keep the middle part collapsible =)
What if you are at a location where there is no water source to hook the other end of the hose to? Say you are out in the middle of a field or on a rural road not near any house?
What if you have to shoot on location and there is no water source? I mean, you can't just knock up on people's doors and ask if you could use their tap, right?
Hey how's it going, I know i'm super late to this party but if you haven't found a portable alternative I think you'll love the video I just posted because I found the perfect way to do this effect, you don't need to build a huge contraption and you can take it absolutely anywhere, it's definitely worth checking out because I don't think anyone else has used my method before, definitely one of the best / easiest ways to get the effect anywhere, I hope it helps!
brilliant idea and the "rain" it produced was spot-on - looked very genuine on camera. Good job!
Thanks!
DIY $15 Film rain machine, Little brother and a water hose ;)
Your 1st design provided better movie rain. The 2nd is almost like filming in a real rainstorm...
Great tutorial!
MoreLikeCappuccino Thanks! Yeah each machine produces different results.
How annoying would it be, that just after you finish making your customised rain maker natural rain begins to fall from the sky :P
lol
Bus Lan lol that'd suck
Bus Lan hahaha
My face would looked like 0:00
Lol
Love love love this video and tutorial! Just built one in Taiwan - 4 nozzles and works well! Thanks for taking the time to film this and then post it!
This is the best raining machine I have ever seen. I like it very much. It must be collected.
Wow this looks so fantastic compared to other solutions that i have seen. I really wish i thought of this before filming my rain scenes.
Thanks... I luv how you get expensive effects with in-expensive methods!
Terry Thomas Thanks!
Thanks, Tom for this video. I bought your Lighting Dozen Tutorial, and this is the perfect video to complement that awesome rain cinematography segment.
Thanks Hatsuon Jones for buying the Lighting Dozen Tutorials!!! Great to hear you liked it.
Thank you for the great tutorial and tips! You just saved me a LOT of money on a film! :)
very realistic!!!!!!!well done tom!always your tutorials are very helpfull!greetings from greece!and i wish to you and to your family the best!
If you make your bottom board vertical, so that you can make a "T" shape with your boards, you will reduce the bending that happens in the middle.
Biggest question is where is your water source coming from for it to work in the middle of nowhere or in the middle of a forest?
Good thing you're better at video making than putting up umbrellas:)
+FlopsyGuitarBunny ;-)
great tutorial and nice setup, especially the one with pvc pipes and sprinklers!
Thanks!
Perfect, thank you!
robyworks no problem!
Genius at work. Many thanks indeed!
Great machine, Tom!
Obviously I love your work Tom, back in college we'd even watch your videos as a reference to filmmaking advice, i'm sure anyone can build one of these contraptions and it looks amazing and on such a much larger scale but I just created a video as an alternative to getting a sweet practical rain effect, it's on a small scale but it's incredibly easy and handy because you can take it absolutely anywhere without having to build anything, it's outside the box as well and I believe it would really help out so many people if they were looking for a great alternative to this, you even get an awesome blood splatter effect with it!
It was very helpful
Thank you.
Great video👍
Absolutely mind-blowing. I always thought to get that effect you needed a huge 1,000 gallons per minute water pump and a crazy apparatus to disperse the water. This is awesome. Thanks :)
Hi Tomantos that was so cool, am going to try it and you will see it in my next film or music video. thank u so much. loving it already.
This is such a great video, thanks so much!
YOURE AMAZING AND EXTREMELY CREATIVE!!!! huge fan!!!
Great video I hope you looked into getting a PVC cutter way more efficient than the hand saw. Thank you for the tutorial
Great! So I'm thinking... since I'm filming under trees I can just run a, decent quality, sprinkler hose through some branches and turn on the rain. Trying to keep my next short film as low budget as possible. This info will really help. I think this might be epic :) I'm going to use it in conjunction with a smoldering campfire FX I came up with in my last short film. Thanks
Thank you for sharing this Tom! - and great tutorial as always! :)
Thank you so much Tom. This is very helpful.
Hi! Love this video thank you. How did you find a hose hookup in the middle of the woods?
That was exactly my thought lol
4:20, Dog steals the shot from the lead actor.
Your tutorials are amazing thx a lot man
Great. But how do you make a portable system? Most locations doesnt have access to continuous water. Especially outside
sephiroth x my friend a 55 gallon drum of water you can also rent one of those portable water tanks that you see in the parking lots when a parking lot is closed for the night and somebody go out there and power wash
Portable water pump drawing from a drum of water, and use a portable genny for power, or a small inverter and a car.
Typical PVC pipe is "schedule 40", for what you are doing, there is a "schedule 80", significantly thicker walls, therefore more rigid !
Great Job!
Awesome I'll have to try that one !
Tom Antos hey Tom, by the way, in that intro, it seems like you were *only* using the garden hose... if this is correct, the shot was really impressive and very very real looking. Amazing you accomplished that only with the garden hose. ( when the cam zoomed out, that what I saw, unless you had both garden hose AND pvc pipes ( sprinklers ) working also....
Yup the opening shot was the first rain machine with just the garden hose and the last shot in the tutorial is done using the PVC rain machine. They both work great, but the PVC sprays the water a bit longer and it doesnt break as easily.
Dang, I wish I would have watched this a few months ago, I disposed of a folding mattress bedframe that might have worked well as a support frame for the PVC. I am going to try this out though.
A PVC cutter will speed this up greatly and remember to use the primer before using the cement or the joint will be weak. Tom forgot that part.
I'll be getting your tutorials soon.
Jboy y Nahum Thanks!
Make more video like this dude
For the opener, I would have started with a shot of your getting out of the car in the rain, fidgeting with the umbrella, and soaking, rain stopping, then pull pack to the setup. That's just me. I'll try this set up.
wow great! how did you light the car interiour? with leds ? and outside the moonlight pls?
your background scenery are beautiful
where did you get the water? :)
Promikes that's what I was gonna ask
+Neelo Tv
I reckon it might've come from a tap. Where else does water come from?? ;)
+TURFA The ocean.
Lol of course but you need a outlet for the water
the earth is made of 75% water
Thanks a lot 👍
10:06 you could probably get away with using open zip ties and grip the zips with closed zips on the vertical end followed by the same process on the horizontal I think.
We had a rain machine and while using it at night TONS of bugs came to visit, it ruined the scene. Reason is it had been dry and there was no water elsewhere, we solved it by flooding part of the road a few yards away from the rain machine, all the bugs went to the pool of water which formed in a run on the side of the road. It's actually funny to see this were gonna keep it as an outtake
You gave me an idea, how about since it's not going in the ground, you use Electrical PVC Schedule 80 and I guarantee it won't bend... And or sister it to two 10' pieces of 3/4 EMT conduit for support... Think I'll do that and thanks for the idea...
Thank you. I made a rain machine from your tutorial.
In the professional sector vertical rain towers with a spray head is much more flexible than your overhead approach.
Great job! A little question though, I need to get the same effect going but on a city street, where I won't have direct connection to a private water supply (it's all appartment blocks around here), do you or anybody else have some tips on how to do this?
if your in the city then there is always water connections on every building. just ask the owners of a building nearby for permission to connect. You'll be surprised how many people will let you connect water or power if you ask nicely :-)
Hey how's it going, I know i'm super late to this party but if you haven't found a portable alternative I think you'll love the video I just posted because I found the perfect way to do this effect, you don't need to build a huge contraption and you can take it absolutely anywhere, it's definitely worth checking out because I don't think anyone else has used my method before, definitely one of the best / easiest ways to get the effect anywhere, I hope it helps!
@@ChrisSchieritz I looked on your page for the video but I didn't see it
@@Zegeebwah it's the blood splatter effect one 😄 personally I really like the rain effect but people only seemed interested in the similar blood spraying effect you get with it so I figured I'd just shorten the name for them 😬
If I put the sprinklers looking down would it create a good look if I put the machine right on top of where I want to record?
2 main and important things stayed SECRET for me
1. where you hold the water and how much liter you take with you?
2. How you press water, that it throw out from tubes' holes? (sorry if there is grammar mistake)
you have to connect it to a water supply line... you cannot just set this up anywhere.
Lukasz Antos And maybe water cistern.
AMAZING!!!
9:13 maybe double the pipe in to a latter?
I have a question where do you find water to power up the Rain Machine?
This will definitely come in handy, thank you!! Was this all shot with the gh4?
The shots in the actual rain were shot on the GH4... the behind the scenes was mostly done on the Canon 7D.
How do you get the water to come out of the water hose like that? Did you puncture holes in it or something ?
Hi Tom, We built your second design for a school project but are having trouble getting the sprinklers to spray at all. Did you have to adjust your sprinkler heads in some way to control the flow of the water? Thanks!
Where do you get the water to power up the rain?
Nice tutorial
Thanks
great job, thank you!!
where do you get the water from?
Awesome overall especially the night scene there. But I wouldn't run from the axe wielding dude like that, I'd dent my front bumper with him. Very deeply. Thanks Tom Antos.
could try to introduce a metal rod inside to make the pipes more steady?
@14:38 what tripod did you use?
Mickey Louis The CAME-TV tripod .... I did a review about it. You can find it on my website.
Hey can u put links to the to heads u use in the pvc build. And where to get the hose so i can try that 2.
I got it all at my local hardware store... but I'll see if I can find it online and post the links on my website.
Nice!!
What light are you using as the back light?
1K Red Head Tungsten light
How are you geting power there?!
***** generator?
It would be more rigid if you flipped the pieces of wood 90 degrees on their side. Wouldn't be so much flex in it. You could easily just drill a hole through them all and use a bolt/stick/whatever to keep the middle part collapsible =)
So smart!
Thank you ;)
Clever!
Hii, I actually came here so that I can create artificial rain for my daughter as she loves splashing in the rain.
nice. where will you get the water from when shooting your feature?
That's a good question!
Im filming on a farm so there's plenty of water hose conections
hello Tom...greetings from Africa, huge fan...i got a quick question, how do i simulate lightning flashes when filming for a horror movie?
I would use a flash light then do the rest in post.
this helps alot
Nice!
any idea how to do moving shots and follow your actors with the rain machine?
You'd have to play around with the rain machine for that to work
What camera are you using for your feature
Still deciding but I think most likely Panasonic gh4
3/4" PVC = CHUBBY RAIN!
lmao
Can I do this for watering plants
What if you are at a location where there is no water source to hook the other end of the hose to? Say you are out in the middle of a field or on a rural road not near any house?
You can bring water in a big towable container and gas or electric pump
would 1" PVC have worked better? i.e., not needed the support piece?
It might. Try it and let me know ur results. Thnx!
Thnk u so so much
I noticed your license plate was from kitchener ontario! thats where we're from.
Lol this tutorial reminded me of the Red Green show!
;-)
amazing
I bet if you used conduit, that would of stabilized the setup.
where is the water come from in the forest?
What Camera Did You Use?!!
you this is a total finest job it, defiantly not portable
0:44 what ran past your car?! (bottom left corner of screen)
LOL my dog
Is it possible to move this makeshift creation with the actor? I.E. the actor walks down the street being soaked by rain
What if you have to shoot on location and there is no water source? I mean, you can't just knock up on people's doors and ask if you could use their tap, right?
Hey how's it going, I know i'm super late to this party but if you haven't found a portable alternative I think you'll love the video I just posted because I found the perfect way to do this effect, you don't need to build a huge contraption and you can take it absolutely anywhere, it's definitely worth checking out because I don't think anyone else has used my method before, definitely one of the best / easiest ways to get the effect anywhere, I hope it helps!
Do you have an estimate for how much water this uses per minute?
Nope because that would depends on how many holes and sprinklers you put in it and also what water pressure your supply hose is at.
do have to be clean.water or salt water
Now my only issue is finding a water source in the middle of the woods.. or away from a house..
Find a stream or pond and get a electric water pump. Or you can hire a water delivery truck.
genius
Just my luck as soon as I built it a car would come through
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