Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Wizard tornado

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didj1028
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Topic: Wizard tornado
Posted: 5/06/12 at 4:16pm

Anyone like to share successful and unsuccessful ways to do the tornado effect for Wizard of Oz?

Geoff Ehrendreich
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Posted: 5/06/12 at 6:53pm

Blinky lights and a blackout.

You may consider a projected computer animation of stuff flying around in the blackout.

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Posted: 5/06/12 at 7:53pm

Saw one production where the farmhouse, basically a front porch setup, was simply a gussied up flat placed stage right with a central pivot that revolved when the storm hit. Stage left there was a row of corn stalks, also with a central pivot. The spinning set pieces, combined with lighting effects and sub-woofer sound effects was all very impressive.

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Posted: 5/07/12 at 8:07am

I saw a particularly successful tornado scene at a local High School. The audio-visual club had been recruited and took it on like a film project. They spliced actual tornado footage with video they took of the witch/Mrs. Gulch local farmhouses and even two guys in a rowboat which appeared to float by the window. There are some very talented young people in our school sand we should not be against making use of them.

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Posted: 5/08/12 at 8:58pm

I very much wish I had some video projection technology. Going to have to try older methods. Saw a suggestion somewhere of a rig with a record turntable with a tornado shaped thingy on it with a low angle bright light that got tracked across the stage behind a ground row on a wheeled wagon. Any thoughts?

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Posted: 8/17/12 at 1:21pm

We discussed this on the forum a few years back....http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3862&KW=tornado+scrim&PID=20279#20279

There are several ways to do the tornado...front or rear projection--for example-- but I really wanted to do projection with an overlaid shadow projection (as described in the post).

Edited by vickifrank - 8/17/12 at 1:32pm

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didj1028 Star Joined: 1/25/11 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 54	Topic: Wizard tornado Posted: 5/06/12 at 4:16pm
	Anyone like to share successful and unsuccessful ways to do the tornado effect for Wizard of Oz?
	Geoff Ehrendreich Waterloo Community Playhouse Waterloo IA

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David McCall Celebrity Joined: 1/28/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 299	Posted: 5/06/12 at 6:53pm
	Blinky lights and a blackout. You may consider a projected computer animation of stuff flying around in the blackout.
	David M
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edh915 Celebrity Joined: 11/19/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 325	Posted: 5/06/12 at 7:53pm
	Saw one production where the farmhouse, basically a front porch setup, was simply a gussied up flat placed stage right with a central pivot that revolved when the storm hit. Stage left there was a row of corn stalks, also with a central pivot. The spinning set pieces, combined with lighting effects and sub-woofer sound effects was all very impressive.
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pdavis69 Celebrity Joined: 3/26/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 437	Posted: 5/07/12 at 8:07am
	I saw a particularly successful tornado scene at a local High School. The audio-visual club had been recruited and took it on like a film project. They spliced actual tornado footage with video they took of the witch/Mrs. Gulch local farmhouses and even two guys in a rowboat which appeared to float by the window. There are some very talented young people in our school sand we should not be against making use of them.
	Patrick L. Davis Fort Findlay Playhouse
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didj1028 Star Joined: 1/25/11 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 54	Posted: 5/08/12 at 8:58pm
	I very much wish I had some video projection technology. Going to have to try older methods. Saw a suggestion somewhere of a rig with a record turntable with a tornado shaped thingy on it with a low angle bright light that got tracked across the stage behind a ground row on a wheeled wagon. Any thoughts?
	Geoff Ehrendreich Waterloo Community Playhouse Waterloo IA
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vickifrank Celebrity Joined: 9/21/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 332	Posted: 8/17/12 at 1:21pm
	We discussed this on the forum a few years back....http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3862&KW=tornado+scrim&PID=20279#20279 There are several ways to do the tornado...front or rear projection--for example-- but I really wanted to do projection with an overlaid shadow projection (as described in the post). Edited by vickifrank - 8/17/12 at 1:32pm
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