On Stage effects
Tue, 8 May 2001, 06:04 pmWalter Plinge11 posts in thread
On Stage effects
Tue, 8 May 2001, 06:04 pmHaving just read some intersting comments about theatre in Gosnells I hope that I can get some help from you all.
Acorn Theatre "The Smallest Theatre in the World"(Guiness Book of Records) is getting set to perform Roald Dahl's "The Witches". I would like some technical advice about on stage explosions. They are being used to cover human sized actors turning into mice (actual size).
We have thought about flashes of light and coloured smoke. Any other ideas?
Thanks
Wes
Acorn Theatre "The Smallest Theatre in the World"(Guiness Book of Records) is getting set to perform Roald Dahl's "The Witches". I would like some technical advice about on stage explosions. They are being used to cover human sized actors turning into mice (actual size).
We have thought about flashes of light and coloured smoke. Any other ideas?
Thanks
Wes
RE: On Stage effects
Tue, 15 May 2001, 03:53 amWalter Plinge
Hi, We have had good results using a small concusion charge. You can use it at the same time the flash powder is detonated. You need schedule 40 steel pipe about a foot long with an internal dia. of about an inch.
A small charge(2 capfulls) in this will produce a good explosive bang.
A couple of words to the wise: leave both ends of the pipe
open, and make sure there is your red zone safety clearance
either end of the pipe. Run this past your pyro tech.
Break a leg, Leighton
A small charge(2 capfulls) in this will produce a good explosive bang.
A couple of words to the wise: leave both ends of the pipe
open, and make sure there is your red zone safety clearance
either end of the pipe. Run this past your pyro tech.
Break a leg, Leighton
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