HiveMindFury
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I'm working on a production of Spring Awakening, and we need a leaf drop effect in one of the scenes. I was originally thinking of using a drop box, but the designer wants the leaves to keep falling for several minutes, so a drop box wouldn't exactly work.
I'm thinking of adapting a technique used in an earlier production (Candide) where a character gets snowed on. Basically there was a pouch type thing in the rig above him filled with fake snow, with a line going offstage that one of the crew pulled on repeatedly, sending fake snow down onto the actor.
Obviously there are some issues with adapting that technique, mainly that leaves are much bigger than flakes of fake snow. I believe the leaves are going to be made of some kind of light cloth so they fall suitably slowly. At this point I don't know how heavy the leaf fall has to be, or exactly how long they have to fall for (we're early in the production process, but I'd like to get this sorted as early as possible).
I'm thinking of adapting a technique used in an earlier production (Candide) where a character gets snowed on. Basically there was a pouch type thing in the rig above him filled with fake snow, with a line going offstage that one of the crew pulled on repeatedly, sending fake snow down onto the actor.
Obviously there are some issues with adapting that technique, mainly that leaves are much bigger than flakes of fake snow. I believe the leaves are going to be made of some kind of light cloth so they fall suitably slowly. At this point I don't know how heavy the leaf fall has to be, or exactly how long they have to fall for (we're early in the production process, but I'd like to get this sorted as early as possible).