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    Posted: 7/14/05 at 10:17am
I perused previous topics but didn't find anything concerning the topic.  I got a production coming up that I'll need to make a starfield backdrop for.  I've looked into various options from the sexiest (fiber optics) to everythig in between and now would like to get some other opinions from those that have done it before. The budget is fairly non-existant (big surpirse!) so as nice as fiber optics is, renting or building a curtain of these doesn't seem to be an option because of cost.  I've heard of Christmas lights w/scrim being used, gobo projectors, etc.   What are some of yall's experience?
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bullet Posted: 7/14/05 at 11:47am
A very simple solution is to get a flat black
background -- either painted plywood or heavy fabric
stretched tautly -- and puncture holes it with a drill, a
screwdriver, a BB gun or what have you.

Shining a powerful light from behind it should give
you the effect you're after.

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bullet Posted: 7/14/05 at 11:51am
Oh! And by the way, make sure there is adequate
distance between your light source and your
backdrop.

We don't want any excess heat creating a
super-nova.

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bullet Posted: 7/14/05 at 11:22pm

There are lots of cheap ways to do a star cloth.

With fibre optics, break the constellation down to smaller sections with a number of small light sources, with in the whole field. Rather than trying to run one fibre over the whole cloth from one light.

You can get remnant end of roll & off cut lengths of fibre optics, from a local installer or supplier.

Use old small coffee or food cans, which has a reflective inside, to house the globe. The globe holder can be mounted on the lid or the bottom of the can, so the globe is inside it. The fibre tube can easily be mounted on the other end of the can, aluminium oven foil is also good to mask the light source to the fibre.

Using Christmas budlights taped to a back wall & hang good old black shade cloth in front of it, is a good effect because as the punter in the audience moves their head, the stars appear to twinkle.

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