I suspect the hairdryer is a rigged prop (with either a low voltage blower or compressed air feed) and she did know about it as there are too many serious safety risks otherwise (for instance getting a unexpected cloud of fine dust in the eyes isn’t particularly pleasant either!)
you do get a lot of film school students and other such wannabes using youtube as a way of testing out SFX. I’ve seen a lot more hardcore stuff on YT including squibs/bullet hits (the effects used in movies to make it look like someone has been shot) and other pyros /IEDs being detonated
Can be fun to watch but has the danger that people will also try out the stunts/effects, without appropriate safety precautions.
I’ve got a bunch of friends in the sticks what would be prepared to try all manner of things but I don’t want to encourage them because if anything fucks up it would end up with Eastamb and West suffolk hospital having to patch them up at public expense and them lot seem to have enough dealings with the NHS on a day to day basis anyway just through “normal” illness and accidents!!!
