food flying onto actors
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Topic: food flying onto actors
Posted By: TripleT
Subject: food flying onto actors
Date Posted: 4/28/07 at 10:27pm
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in my play, a tray that supposedly has cranberry sauce, turkey, and stuffing on it has to fly off the table during a fight between the two actors and supposedly cover one of the actors in the food. Does anyone have a suggestion how this can be accomplished without having the food fall to the ground a make an obviously un-food like noise (as with most standard artifical food) or using real food that will ruin the actors costume? |
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Posted By: Kathy S
Date Posted: 4/30/07 at 10:18pm
| That's a tough one, but aren't you more concerned about damaging the actor than damaging the costume? |
Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 5/06/07 at 8:17pm
Ahh come on actors are replacable, costumes are priceless.  Ok, Ok before anyone writes any nasty-grams I was kidding.------------- BD 
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." |
Posted By: Kurt Muller
Date Posted: 5/20/07 at 7:22am
Un-foodlike noise?? Reminds me of a joke. How do you catch squirrels? Sit in a tree and make a noise like an acorn.
Seriously, what kind of noise does stuffing or sauce make when it hits the floor? And how many people are familiar with that noise? Is it that important that the food make a sound?
If the food flies off with the tray, wouldn't the loudest noise be the metallic CLANG! of the tray hitting? Get a sound effect of a metal tray crashing on the floor, pump up the volume, and nobody's going to say, "Hey, I didn't hear that cranberry sauce hit the floor!"
Just my two cents.
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