Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: making clouds

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   My theater director wants fluffy clouds that hang from the sky....what can I make them out of that will be stiff enough to hang and still look fluffy?  Think cheap.

Leslie

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LeslieM Walk-On Joined: 10/05/07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Topic: making clouds Posted: 10/05/07 at 6:04am
	My theater director wants fluffy clouds that hang from the sky....what can I make them out of that will be stiff enough to hang and still look fluffy? Think cheap. Leslie

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Gaafa Celebrity Joined: 3/21/04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1181	Posted: 10/05/07 at 10:35pm
	With clouds you can go from the sublime to the pathetic? What is the show & the idea behind it?
	Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house}
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LeslieM Walk-On Joined: 10/05/07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 10/06/07 at 11:47am
	It is for Alice in Wonderland. They need to look semi-realistic, not wonderlandesque.
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Topper Celebrity Joined: 1/27/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 543	Posted: 10/07/07 at 2:49pm
	Talk him out of it. Anything hanging from the ceiling is going to get in the way of something -- lights, flats, curtains, whatever. But, if you're really talented (or know a painter who is) airbrush white/blue/gray paint on flat luaun (or other sturdy, thin material) in shapes cut-out like clouds. If done well, they'll look 3-dimensional and realistic -- check out some paintings by the Old Masters themselves -- the illusion of depth is amazing.
	"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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LeslieM Walk-On Joined: 10/05/07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Posted: 10/07/07 at 6:53pm
	Well, I was able to come up with something...pink foam insulation board cut into cloud shapes, with the expandable foam from a can to give it some texture, spray painted the whole thing white, and then hot glued the fake polyester snow from the home depot on top. It has a lot of dimension, looks puffy, is lightweight and can hang.....
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Gaafa Celebrity Joined: 3/21/04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1181	Posted: 10/07/07 at 9:53pm
	If you have a Tab Track? You could hang them for moving clouds, also use a suitable cloud GOBO on them to erhance.
	Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house}
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tristanrobin Celebrity Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704	Posted: 10/07/07 at 10:15pm
	slide projection!
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