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Wizard tornado

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Topic: Wizard tornado

Posted By: didj1028
Subject: Wizard tornado
Date Posted: 5/06/12 at 4:16pm

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

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Geoff Ehrendreich
Waterloo Community Playhouse
Waterloo IA

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Posted By: David McCall
Date 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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David M

Posted By: edh915
Date 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.

Posted By: pdavis69
Date 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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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse

Posted By: didj1028
Date 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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Geoff Ehrendreich
Waterloo Community Playhouse
Waterloo IA

Posted By: vickifrank
Date 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).

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