Our school is going to do "Singin' in the Rain" next year, and for the rest of the semester, it is my project to engineer and design the entire rain sequence and equipment needed for this effect.
I have been able to find many posts about how to make the actual rain half of the equation, but I am not able to find many ideas on the surface that the rain actually falls on. I have no idea how to build the rain deck, make it waterproof, make it a closed system, or drain it...
Here are my design constraints:
Thanks!
I have been able to find many posts about how to make the actual rain half of the equation, but I am not able to find many ideas on the surface that the rain actually falls on. I have no idea how to build the rain deck, make it waterproof, make it a closed system, or drain it...
Here are my design constraints:
- My director would like the rain to be part of a closed, recycling system.
- Any way to collect water from under the stage is out of the question, and raising the entire stage is possible, but preferably avoided.
- If we were to build something on the entire stage to raise it, we can not screw in to the apron AT ALL, and would need to find a safe way to anchor platforms constructed over that section.
- My director would like the entire rain deck to be on wagons, which would require multiple wagons being connected together and able to be broken apart. She would also like the set to be a large piece, and not something built on a single 4X8 wagon.
- Our stage is not flat.
- Our stage is not level.
- The actor must be able to splash on parts of the set.
Thanks!