BMROW
Member
Hello,
We're planning on using rice on stage as fake rain. We've got about 200kg of long-grain rice that I'm planning on dropping over 3 flown bars. One down stage, one mid stage and one up-stage. It dropping on to the floor is fine as the audience never see it and we have a scene change directly after to sweep it up.
I'm a bit stuck on how to rig and drop the rice. In previous productions to drop snow we've made a snow bag which is fine because the plastic naturally disperses when it hits the air but the same wont happen with rice. I've done a small sample on some 6inch PVC pipe by drilling holes across 3/4 the diameter of the pipe and rolling the pipe- it wasn't successful.
We're hoping to rig later this week so any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance
We're planning on using rice on stage as fake rain. We've got about 200kg of long-grain rice that I'm planning on dropping over 3 flown bars. One down stage, one mid stage and one up-stage. It dropping on to the floor is fine as the audience never see it and we have a scene change directly after to sweep it up.
I'm a bit stuck on how to rig and drop the rice. In previous productions to drop snow we've made a snow bag which is fine because the plastic naturally disperses when it hits the air but the same wont happen with rice. I've done a small sample on some 6inch PVC pipe by drilling holes across 3/4 the diameter of the pipe and rolling the pipe- it wasn't successful.
We're hoping to rig later this week so any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance