How Do Editors Produce The Nuclear Explosion In Movies

There have been over 2,000 nuclear explosions all over the world but every other action movies drops one to pack a punch in the movie. Nobody would ever want to experience a nuclear bomb explosion in real life but in movies, they actually seem so cool. Here are top ten movies featuring amazing nuclear bomb scenes.

1. Strangelove
2. The Day After
3. Threads
4. The Sum of All Fears
5. Armageddon
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
8. The Wolverine
9. Independence Day

Have you ever wondered how a nuclear explosion actually created in movies? With movies based on apocalypse theme on rise, it would not be hard to spot a nuclear explosion being featured in every other action movie these days. Movies such as Terminator, the Dark Knight Rises, and the Indiana Jones made use of special effects for showing a nuclear explosion. These effects are most frequently employed in TV shows and movies. Visual effects have made these movies a massive success.

Nuclear Explosions In Movies

 

Dr. Strangelove has been a bit different when it comes to portraying nuclear explosions. The movie employed military footage as it was hard to incorporate realistic visual effects during the time when the movie was produced. Effects of the kind shown in the movies were well beyond the capabilities during the period. Till date, the typical visual effect employed for rendering nuclear detonation falls short and seems more artificial. Dr. Strangelove featured real footage either during the time of nuclear testing or from any of the military operations conducted.

Nuclear War Movies

Nuclear warheads can smite thousands of people dead within seconds. It would be unlikely that we would have heard the sound of an actual nuclear explosion. As per experts, most films employ stock explosion sound effects. Several movies depicting nuclear explosions are dubbed. Even if they contain an actual recording of the test blast the sound effects are shifted so that the blast wave and the sound wave are simultaneous.

You would barely find any footage that has not been tampered with post-processing.  A lot of editing goes into depicting a nuclear explosion in movies whether they are being created with aid of special effects tool or if an actual blast footage is being employed. A lot of work goes into working on video and audio effects to create the magic that the audience is expecting to see on the screen.