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Go ask Alice

Tue, 13 Apr 2010, 09:00 pm
mike raine6 posts in thread
Okay . . . I need some help from you lateral thinkers out there. Huon Valley Theatre's Youth Theatre Group is going to stage its own version of "Alice in Wonderland". Part of the play calls for Alice to grow larger and smaller. I'm interested in how they could create this illusion. For example, one idea suggested is to use a shadow screen and have Alice's shadow increase or decrease in size. Another idea is to use "pull-up" vegetation that ascends upwards to make Alice look as if she is shrinking, or downwards to make it look like she is growing. Has anyone had occasion to do anything like this? No idea is to fanciful for us to consider. All suggestions welcome! mike
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Sun, 18 Apr 2010, 06:35 am
JoeMc

{For some reason this part of my orignal post didn't make it & vanished?

I can gaurentee it was my fault, getting all previous on my self again!}

Use a strobe or other light effect initialy prior to her shrinking upstage of the scrim, then use the profile ['Z' position] with Alice moving from R of USR, along in the beam angled to DL of DSL, so as to shrink the shadow. Then transpose the lighting to the general state & take out the scrim. Idealy the scrim should be set as far DS as possible, dependant on the area you have to play with, to give the most distance for Alice to travel on the angle. Then return to it's general lighting state & taking out the scrim, Reverse to bring her back to normal of course, only the SR ofAlice will be viewed during the reveal with the rest of her otlined, but the profiles level can be adjusted to suit.

 

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