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More Wizard of Oz help?

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Topic: More Wizard of Oz help?

Posted By: Debflo
Subject: More Wizard of Oz help?
Date Posted: 6/25/07 at 7:57pm

Hello again! So my last question you guys all gave me amazing advice! thanks so much! So here is my new query.... having trouble with a fire effect. This version of the Script (it is the one adapted by Anne Coulter Martens, if that helps) calls for the Wizard to appear as a floating ball of fire. Well I am being told that I can not use any type of flame at all (not even flash paper) so I am not sure what to do... One thought I had was to build one of those flame-looking things with a fan and an orange light... any other thoughts? I am in a very small CT (70 seat house) and we don't have the lighting to use Gobos...

thanks so much everyone!!

Debflo

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Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 6/27/07 at 9:26am

ALl I can thnk of is somwhow building one of those fake fire effects, using all sorts of outlandish things, maybe mylar streamers in oranges and reds, you can use it to blow the audience away, or how about large strips of flowing cloth not really even made to look like fire, but in fire colors waved around almost bursting out of the center of the area where the head would be. I can see this one in my mind, but its difficult to explain. if you rolled up some type of lighter materials in "fire colors" attached your head to the middle of it, and dropped it from a line attached to the ceilng, when needed the fabric (with small weights attached to the bottom) could drop down creating almost a fire like star burst effect, surprising, and fire free. (add some sparkles and smoke...your all set!)

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Posted By: Debflo
Date Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:48pm

That actually makes a lot of sense. I think it may look better doing that then using the fan and colored fabric I was thinking about. I think it would make a better impact.

Thanks for the advice!!!

Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:42am

No problem! I wish there was some application on here that we could do drawings online, it would be much easier to explain things!

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Posted By: Debflo
Date Posted: 6/28/07 at 2:10pm

Neilfortin - yeah pics or drawings woudl definitely help! But I am pretty sure I figured out your idea. Man this would all be easier if I just had enough money to do anything I wanted... isn't that always the case?

Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:41pm

Haha yea, then a magician could be hired, or you could just invent some type of fireless-fire...here's hopin'. Good luck!

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Posted By: beanboy81
Date Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:44pm

Have you thought of simply projecting a pre-recorded image into smoke created by a fog machine?

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Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:41pm

oo i like that idea...could definitely give a great 3-D appearence!

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Posted By: Debflo
Date Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:24pm

wow that is a great idea, and I wish I would have had it earlier :) The show opened last weekend. But, its going very well as is. I'll find some pics to post. We ended up using the fan inside a globe idea, (like those fake cauldron's you see at Halloween) but hooked it up to the light board so I could adjust the flame as the Wizard spoke. It worked pretty well!