Blanks vs Digital Effects

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Chitoryu12

For major feature films, there's other advantages. You've got everything I said before about how they're cheap and require no ammunition or armorer on set. They're also safe to use for close shots where blanks could injure or kill an actor, and they let you film in areas where you can't or didn't get a permit for the noise of blank firing.

Despite what you have claimed previously, this is still NOT the norm in big-budget films, and even most low-budget films. The preference is still, and will always be, to use real weapons firing blanks whenever possible. You cite "The Hurt Locker", for example. Even though that film uses Classic Army airsoft M4s for some non-firing scenes, the M4s that are actually fired are real weapons loaded with blanks.

[Chitoryu12]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Despite what you have claimed previously, this is still NOT the norm in big-budget films, and even most low-budget films. The preference is still, and will always be, to use real weapons firing blanks whenever possible. You cite "The Hurt Locker", for example. Even though that film uses Classic Army airsoft M4s for some non-firing scenes, the M4s that are actually fired are real weapons loaded with blanks.

Where have I ever claimed that airsoft weapons is the norm? I've made exactly one other post on this forum about airsoft guns, which was very similar in content to the post you quoted.