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In a blog for the American Society of Cinematographers posted in 2019, Dave Brown wrote: “CGI may be used for close-range gunshots that could not be safely achieved otherwise, but yes, even with all the advancements in visual effects and computer-generated imagery, we still fire guns with blanks.