How was this glass shattering scene shot without getting any injury to the head?
This is one of the scenes from Scrubs.
JD (or whoever he was) bumps his head into the glass and breaks it. The scene looks pretty realistic. How was it done without hurting his head?
Best Answer
Very simply - don't use real glass.
Movies have long used sugar glass.
Literally, a substance that looks like glass but is just made from sugar & water, heated until it turns into a kind of hard, clear toffee [that's 'candy' for those of you born the wrong side of the Atlantic :P].
The same thing is used for the clichéd 'bottle over the head' in fight scenes.
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There are also commercial silicone and urathane (plastic) products that can be molded into clear glass-looking sheets.
Add in a sound effect and you're done.
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