Special Effects Technician Gifts

Best Special Effects Award

Working in the Hazard Zone!

"It's done with cables, son. Not performance-enhancing drugs."

"I kid you not, blood was oozing from the walls! Unfortunately, it was fake: I had stumbled on the set of a horror movie..."

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

'This should be perfect. The main characters fall in love during a series of explosions.'

'Why don't you ever look at ME that way?'

"Same story every morning - 'Can you come and fix our windmill?'..."

'I think I see what's making your funny noise.'

'Action!...Cut!...Right, everything else is CGI'

'What luck! A sound technician.'

"Which part are you reading for?"

'Incredibly Inexpensive Sound Engineers. Pretty Good Sound Engineers, 12 the price, 23 the quality. You'll hardly notice the occasional feedback.'

"And the award for the best use of AI in a movie goes to..."

'It's all done with computer animation now.'

Subwoofer

'No, when something blows up it doesn't buffer, that's just special effects.'

'They're only interested in computer generated mammoths.' (Theatrical Agent).

"Me Tarzan. You CGI."

"Boy, the kids are growing up so fast!"

Monster Clown

Santa CGI Effect

Computer wheeled down red carpet at film premiere. TV presenter says: 'Now, at last, here comes the real star of the movie!'

The 2024 Deepfake awards

"The sound system is fixed so we can start. Would you kindly put the beach ball away!"

'I told you we should have gone wireless.'

'Theaters from Hell.' 'We have no sound engineers, so no there's not a good seat in the house.'

"O.K. 'The Giant Baby from Space,' Take 1."

'Wow! These advancements in TV make the news even more frightening.'

An Audio Technician's Pocket Knife

"I still say they've overdone the anti-aging CGI."

'You're King Kong? You look bigger in the movies.'

"The director told me we were going to green-screen the cat in!"

"Oh, that's just one of those special effects for a film they're making here."

'Damn ! I don't have a clue where we are.'