Wild West Puppet Project
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Hello Control,
I joined your forum because I am beginning my venture into live theatrical productions. I have a lot to learn and look to those of you who would like to help guide me or offer advice. I am a pretty creative person and have lots of ideas and am pretty intelligent but just a novice in this area.
The show is a live action western/comedy Muppet style puppet show with a ton of special effects I would like to incorporate. There will be seven puppeteers and two people available for running the show. There is a small 200 seat local theater I will be renting to run the show but would like all my equipment / sets independent of the theater, except for the house lighting. so I can take it elsewhere at times.
The stage set will showcase a small old west town street and boardwalk with various buildings with windows and doors: a saloon, jail, general store, bank and livery, as well as a silver mine all of which are built into a desert canyon hillside. The 36'x18'; foot stage I have to work with, has no curtains and there will not be any real set changes. The town as well as the desert landscape will take up the whole space and the ground level for show will be raised, to help hide the puppeteers. Too bad I can't go below! All the buildings, desert landscaping, and props will be built/carved out of Styrofoam. Lots of it.
I would like help putting together a complete show system, hopefully all controlled by a single computer Including, lighting, sound, video and special effects.
For light I would like to have day and night scenes, lighting and rain effect and a spot. For sound, wireless head set for at least 8 performers, and of course speaker system and possible live old saloon piano as well as pre-recorded music and sound effects. For video, I would like to place LCD monitors in the windows of some of the building to have pre-recorded video playing, perhaps three to four independent videos at the same time, nothing live. Special effects should include wind, and confetti launcher as well as some kind of wireless (dmx/midi) motion triggers like solinoids or servos (lots of them ; How many are possible?) to set off thing happening like a pin that would break a fake glass or a sign being released and partially falling after a gunshot(lots of damage after a gunfight) Things breaking and having to be reset for the next show. I would also like to add a real miniature railroad, a real mine kart that rolls out of the mine like a homemade rollercoaster, and a water tower or trough leaking water. At the end of the show the mine will explode sending the silver confetti all over the audience. I would like the wind to blow tumbleweeds across the set. These are just some if my ideas I would like to incorporate.
Sounds Fun?
I would genuinely love to hear from all of you.
Rene
I joined your forum because I am beginning my venture into live theatrical productions. I have a lot to learn and look to those of you who would like to help guide me or offer advice. I am a pretty creative person and have lots of ideas and am pretty intelligent but just a novice in this area.
The show is a live action western/comedy Muppet style puppet show with a ton of special effects I would like to incorporate. There will be seven puppeteers and two people available for running the show. There is a small 200 seat local theater I will be renting to run the show but would like all my equipment / sets independent of the theater, except for the house lighting. so I can take it elsewhere at times.
The stage set will showcase a small old west town street and boardwalk with various buildings with windows and doors: a saloon, jail, general store, bank and livery, as well as a silver mine all of which are built into a desert canyon hillside. The 36'x18'; foot stage I have to work with, has no curtains and there will not be any real set changes. The town as well as the desert landscape will take up the whole space and the ground level for show will be raised, to help hide the puppeteers. Too bad I can't go below! All the buildings, desert landscaping, and props will be built/carved out of Styrofoam. Lots of it.
I would like help putting together a complete show system, hopefully all controlled by a single computer Including, lighting, sound, video and special effects.
For light I would like to have day and night scenes, lighting and rain effect and a spot. For sound, wireless head set for at least 8 performers, and of course speaker system and possible live old saloon piano as well as pre-recorded music and sound effects. For video, I would like to place LCD monitors in the windows of some of the building to have pre-recorded video playing, perhaps three to four independent videos at the same time, nothing live. Special effects should include wind, and confetti launcher as well as some kind of wireless (dmx/midi) motion triggers like solinoids or servos (lots of them ; How many are possible?) to set off thing happening like a pin that would break a fake glass or a sign being released and partially falling after a gunshot(lots of damage after a gunfight) Things breaking and having to be reset for the next show. I would also like to add a real miniature railroad, a real mine kart that rolls out of the mine like a homemade rollercoaster, and a water tower or trough leaking water. At the end of the show the mine will explode sending the silver confetti all over the audience. I would like the wind to blow tumbleweeds across the set. These are just some if my ideas I would like to incorporate.
Sounds Fun?
I would genuinely love to hear from all of you.
Rene