Until we open the chest, we can't be sure our body interior
looks properly realistic. So we tell everyone to take a break
while we cut through the skin and "dress" the interior
- adding blood and other details as needed. Then we bring our
actors back in and film them as they pantomine peeling the
prepared skin with their cutting tools.
This leaves us with a "missing scene" between the
original incision and the skin-peeling already in progress. But
it's a minor omission - and it covers a multitude of possible
sins.
After our skin-peeling scene, we can arrange our organs as
needed before we roll camera again.
Ewwwwww!
Our shaky, soft focus cinematography should help hide the fact
that we're looking at a random pile of disconnected organs. Now
we can get loads of film of our actors as they remove these "organs"
one by one.
Let's See Some Brains
Now for our big finish
we'll cut the skull open. We didn't spend a lot of time on our "skull",
but we'll do this in short takes from various bad angles so
there's plenty of opportunity to adjust things as we go. First, we
use our blood-tube scalpel on the scalp.
We cheat just a bit and skip the moment where the skull is
first exposed to allow for any needed touchup work, then let our
actors peel the scalp back. We give our actor a saw and let him
grind away on the underskull for a while.
Skipping the actual removal of the skull cap, we shoot the
removal of the brain from a low angle where the skull can't be
seen. We throw one of our organs in there and roll camera as it
oozes out.
And that's our big finish.
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