making clouds
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Topic: making clouds
Posted By: LeslieM
Subject: making clouds
Date 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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Posted By: Gaafa
Date 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?
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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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Posted By: LeslieM
Date 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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Posted By: Topper
Date 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.
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"None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone
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Posted By: LeslieM
Date Posted: 10/07/07 at 6:53pm
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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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Posted By: Gaafa
Date 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.
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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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Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 10/07/07 at 10:15pm
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