Installing a drop on a stage with no rigging?!
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Topic: Installing a drop on a stage with no rigging?!
Posted By: JazPainter
Subject: Installing a drop on a stage with no rigging?!
Date Posted: 3/20/10 at 11:58am
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Does anyone have a suggestion for installing a drop where there is no rigging, and the floor is tiled (I can't screw down flats - it's a new middle school, and the stage is not set up for, well, sets. There are black curtains, and a front curtain, but not a backwall to attach to. The 'backwall' is removable so that they can do a play on the stage to an outside ampatheater built just outside)
I could paint in sections, but even then, not sure that there is anything to attach the sections to! It's only a 10x20, has anyone had to do this before? Perhaps with a traveling show? I could go smaller, but the edges will be seen. ------------- Jasmine www.BlueAppleScenic.Wordpress.com |
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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 3/22/10 at 8:14pm
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Being a school, it's a safe bet there will be a ceiling over the stage area. If it is a suspended type ceiling, you can always remove the ceiling panels, gaining acess to the suspention dropers, which are nomaly structualy anchored. This will allow you to dead hang the cloth & any other border or leg masking as well. I assume there are also visable anchor pionts for the back tabs, house rage or lighting batterns? These can be utalised for a tempory grid that would support a backdrop, using wire cables with turnbuckles for tightening. It may be worth while for the school to install a cyc traveller battern & track upstage. Also they could easily skin the deck with sheets of MDF or plywood & under gaffer tape. This will allow for flats bracing & painting of the deck, as a stable floor to screw into. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JazPainter
Date Posted: 4/09/10 at 5:41pm
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Hi!
A variation on the ceiling rigging did indeed work. They did not have back tabs, or lighting batterns (I have no idea who designed this space, but I would love to talk to them!). While we were unable to put down a floor this time, I have worked out planning ahead for such an instillation next time. Thank you so much for your help I would never have thought to try that! ------------- Jasmine www.BlueAppleScenic.Wordpress.com |
Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 4/09/10 at 10:02pm
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Most 'achytex' think only about the accetics of a performing spaces, rather than the practical workability of staging a production. It's all thier fault as generaly thier only experiance in theatre, has been gained by recieving a comp once upon a time to actuauly see a show. Every time I have anything to do with them it is like talking to a brick & the response is just as dence? Normally I get involved with the finished building, which has to be modified & reworked to do a show. But even when I'm in on the planning stage of a project, these wally's end up doing thier own thing. Unfortunetly I always find upon taking these yoyos to task they imediatly apply the '3D' principle of Duck, Dive 'n Disappear! But thats all another story!  With a miriad of multi purpose built gymeatres, theatoriums & commeneus. ------------- [western] Gondawandaland "Hear the light & see the sound! TOI TOI CHOOKAS {may you always play to a full house!} |
Posted By: JazPainter
Date Posted: 4/10/10 at 4:05pm
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Yea, you know it's funny, as a painter I generally am not there for load-in days (though of course I always hear the stories) but now that I have my own company I am involved in the installs much more often. I can not believe some of the stuff I'm seeing - one procenium was 4inch off from one side of the stage to the other!
Thanks again for your suggestions, I'm glad I found this site ------------- Jasmine www.BlueAppleScenic.Wordpress.com |