You'll
need to build a Jedi's light saber. It's real easy, and you can
do most of the work right on your desktop computer. First things
first, build two prop light sabers, or for Jedi trainings sake,
use a couple of cheap flash lights, with 3 foot wood dowels as
blades extended from the center grips. Paint the blades with Chroma
Key Green Spray paint. Make sure you just paint the blade and
not the handle.
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Once
the paint is dry, grab yourself two actors, pick a location,
block the action, set the camera, and shoot. Once the fight
scene with your actors and sabers are "in the can", get the
footage "in the computer". |
Okay,
assuming you shot a master and maybe a few close up's, first assembled
your footage using a system such as Final Cut Pro. Once your satisfied
with your cut, its time to make your sabers glow.

Export
your footage as a filmstrip file into Photoshop. Use 3 layers, one
for a red sabers, one for the green sabers that were on top of the
red and one for the red sabers on top of the green. On a transparent
background, using the Photoshop line tool, trace the green wood
rods with a white color. Then use "Eye Candy's" glow plug in effect.
Trace each and every frame.
 
Once
complete, import only the glowing lines back into the editing system.
Using the Key effect, dial out the green colored saber, and replace
them with the overlay of the new Photoshop glowing white lines.
Once rendered, add some cool sound effects, music and start selling
tickets. If George Lucas can make millions with his Star Wars rip
offs, think of what you can make.

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