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Topic: fake water
Posted By: buffy
Subject: fake water
Date Posted: 5/05/04 at 6:14pm
| I'm on the props committee for a children's theater production and I need to figure out a way to pour something (cloth, ribbons, ??) that will look like water, out of a bucket without getting anything wet. I would be thrilled with any ideas. |
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Posted By: DramaMama
Date Posted: 5/05/04 at 10:23pm
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Just an idea, but how about lightly weighting some silk strips (shades of blue) roll them up and tip them out of the pail. I would think they would need to be fixed to the bottom of the pail though to make it work properly. Silk tends to float nicely and packs down quite nicely. could also pour glitter out, which catches the light nicely. this would neccessitate a cleanup though. sorry these are not tested ideas though ------------- Art thrives in Adversity |
Posted By: Jenny
Date Posted: 5/06/04 at 11:42am
| Shiny foil paper comes in almost any color and could also be cut into strips or ribbons and rolled out. You can get it at art supply stores. Good luck! |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 5/06/04 at 11:35pm
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Clear cellophane or a simular plastic foil as suggested. This is what is used in most Panto?s as an effect, like when circus clowns supposedly throw water at the audience! Kathy S from Iowa, (I?m not trying to pinch her thunder here! ) {Her production of a ?Tale of Two Cities?. She used red material for the blood spurt, when the Arito?s lost their heads & got the chop. Which apparently was done so effectively, the audience gasped when the claret spewed out!) Therefore it is how it?s handled by the warm props &/or lighting, that makes it realistic or not! So any thing that would simulate water, without being too obvious. Will work with experiment & practice, depending on the performance action &/or situation. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 5/10/04 at 1:35am
| Well, anyway, it was something like that. We actually used yard and yards of burgundy silky fabric for the wine spill -- attached it to a small powerful fan situated at the base of what was the guillotine. When the "wine" spilled, the fan was switched on and the fabric came billowing out like a river -- straight out toward the front row of the audience. It was very effective and since the wine symbolizes the blood that was spilled as well as communion wine symbolizing blood as well, it was even more so. Thanks for the reminder of that, Joe. It was a really cool effect and fairly simple. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/03/04 at 7:10am
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