Hollywood's Best-Kept Secrets: Behind the Green Screen Magic

6. The Avengers

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Marvel's handling of explosives and action scenes shows the ideal mix between spectacle and safety. The great usage of green screen technology in these high-intensity situations has transformed the filming technique for action sequences. Although pyrotechnics and actual explosives were used in earlier years, they seriously put cast and crew workers at danger. Modern visual effects let directors guarantee total safety on set and produce even more amazing and exciting explosion scenes. The actors' performances are especially remarkable since they had to show great ability in responding to imagined explosions and debris. Along with raising safety criteria, this technical development has opened more intricate and ambitious scenarios than ever before by increasing the possibilities for what can be accomplished in action sequences.