Section 02 · 4 entries
Fire
The suit buys seconds and the count is agreed first. Every entry below names one piece of apparatus and what it is holding.
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The Suit Buys Seconds, and the Count Is Agreed FirstA fire gag is a timed operation with a hard ceiling measured in seconds. The layers, the cooling, the agreed count, and the fact that the end of the shot is planned before the start.
ManagesHeat load on the performer
Turns it intoExposure into a counted window -
What Burns and What Does NotFuel choice as the central decision — described in principle, never as a formulation. Why the visible flame and the heat load are different problems.
ManagesFuel behaviour and heat
Turns it intoCombustion into a photographable flame -
The People Standing Just Outside FrameExtinguisher positions, the medic, the safety officer and the person whose only job is to call it. The apparatus that surrounds a burn.
ManagesThe seconds after the call
Turns it intoA burn into something reversible -
Fire Is a Lighting Problem TooHow a burn is photographed: exposure, frame rate and the reason a fire gag often looks smaller on screen than it felt on set.
ManagesExposure and frame rate
Turns it intoReal heat into screen scale