The Hollywood craft of the stuntman should never go unnoticed. These men and women shed blood and tears to convey a sense of luminous danger on screen. If the particular movie needs a race car that meets its end in the final laps of the race, a stuntman is called on set. He proceeds to enter the specially made “stunt vehicle” with bars and safety harnesses embedded in the car. When the director yells action, he along with the pyrotechnics crew create the magic on screen.

Which brings me to an important aspect of being a stuntman. You have to have the courage to put yourself out on the line just to make the effect seem all the more perfect on screen. Otherwise the translation from script to screen is mediocre and ill feasible. In other words, it looks like crap.

The person involved in the process of translating effective on-screen stunts is known as a stunt coordinator. Cinem@ defines a stunt coordinator as someone who “lines up professional stunt people to take the risks that make the movies so exciting. The stunt coordinator makes sure that all safety regulations are followed and that all safety equipment is on the set and ready for action!”