Beauty and the Beast- Enchanted Rose

Re: Brian Boru

If you could post specific questions about the issues you're having, it would help us to help you. Also, try out the search function, as someone else may already have asked your question.

One final note: Welcome to Controlbooth! Try not to have too much fun in the forums.:mrgreen:
 
Re: Brian Boru

If you are running the rose from Below the stand itself you have a few options, you can you a solenoid type system where u push the rosh petal out a cylinder, this is especially handy id you need more than one petal to fall. You can also use an electromagnet but realize that if your rose is part of a moving platform you have the possibility of the rose petals falling off in set manipulation. If you are running it remotely you can use a remote controlled clamp that simply releases the rose petal when you want it to.. if you need more ideas just let me know ... hope this helped
 
You can also rent the unit. That is what we ended up doing. It even has some lighting (I think MR16) built into it. It was a nice effect. If you are interested, feel free to PM me, and I will dig up the contact info from where we got it from.

~Dave
 
Along the same lines, my high school is doing Beauty, we have the rose suspended in the plasitc tube (rather then glass.. although the plastic was 2 times as much!). The petals are connected with velcro, and have a fishing line attached so that when the time comes the petal is just pulled off by a tech.
Our director worked in a broadway production of Beauty and said thats how it was done (i think there might have been more to it...)

I would like a way to control it from the sidelines, any ideas/sugestions of how to? (sometimes you just dont have enough techs)
 
We just wrapped up Beauty and the Beast at Poolesville High School (Maryland).
One of the many production challenges this show offers is The Rose. I have seen a rental unit a couple of times, but I did not think it all that impressive in view of the cost.
Here is how we built the Rose for about fifty dollars:
Materials
>3/8" soft copper tubing, four feet
>green florist's tape
>fine steel wire, 24 gauge
>large silk roses, one per performance
>large glass flower vase
>single 120volt halogen "puck light"
> table/pedestal/column

-The pedestal was placed on a high fixed section of the set, six feet above stage surface. Our pedestal was on hand, made of PVC plumbing pipe and toilet flanges screwed to plywood rounds.
-A 2-1/2" inch hole was bored in the top and bottom of the pedestal and the stage platform below.
-A plywood round to match the pedestal top was prepared:
The center was drilled to accept the 3/8" tubing.
A hole was bored next to the center to accept the puck light.
A groove was routed to accept the rim of the glass vase.
A line was scribed between the groove and the hole for the puck light.
The disc was cut along this line with a jig-saw.
The result was a center disc four or five inches in diameter and a donut-shaped ring with groove.
-After painting the visible surfaces, the vase was seated in the groove in plumber's RTV silicone sealant.
-The tubing and the puck light wire were passed through the holes in pedestal and stage platform and the center disc secured with screws.
-The visible copper tubing, about 12", was bent into a naturalistic curve and wrapped in florist tape, incorporating a leaf or two from a silk rose.
-petals were 'sewn' each with a steel wire and arranged in bundles with wire length corresponding to petal location.
The script was marked up for petal drops and a student placed under the stage platform to operate light and rose. As each wire was pulled, a petal fell.

Many thanks to my wonderful graduating Props mistress for her cooperation in building and operating this effect. Go get 'em, Tessa.

Mr. J
 

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Worked with a high school production for the same show and the rose was just a projection on the side walls.
 
We did this show a few years back. The rose was on a pedestal under a glass dome. The trick was using long bicycle brake lines (or similar), one per pedal that you want to fall off. Attach the inner line to a rose petal and somewhere off stage, pull that line and the petal falls off. The bunch of lines going to the rose was wrapped in floral tape (green) and became the stem. It worked very well and the audience loved it.
 
My theater did beauty a few years back, and we rented the set from zfx. they had a cool set where the west wing was a octagon shaped platform that was 6 feet high, and stairs goin up to the table where the rose was under glass. under the platform was a little work room where a stage had was under, to drop the rose and spin the west wing... it spun around 360 dagrees. the table that the rose was on has clear plastic rods that went from the petals that fell, down to the stage hand under it. the stage hand would have the drop the rose, and the butt end of the rod had 2 shelves that it would rest, one that kept the rose up by the bud, and one where it rested after it fell... it looked great, we also had a wireless camera hidden behind a column so stage hand could see how the rose was falling to make it look real
 
Not to Necropost... however I just want to Thank everyone for the ideas here and in the other "Rose" posts....

I was able to pull this together today and felt like sharing..

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Don't know if I am keeping the LED uplights and embedding them or losing them all together.

Thanks for the great ideas.
 
I did something very similar with a single halogen puck light.
The problem I ran into was that the cheaper "silk" roses on the market are actually synthetic fabric.
Under heat, they get sticky and the petals can get welded together.
Real silk won't do this.
 
2mojo2 said:
I did something very similar with a single halogen puck light.
The problem I ran into was that the cheaper "silk" roses on the market are actually synthetic fabric.
Under heat, they get sticky and the petals can get welded together.
Real silk won't do this.
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What you can do is Buy a Feather Rose so that way you don't have to worry about anything Melting together:)
 
This looks amazing! Thank you for your post. Would you mind clarifying how the petals fall for me though? Is the wire run up the copper tube to the head of the rose? If so, how did the petals fall to the pedestal when the wire was pulled? I'm sorry, I'm a little confused. We're mounting this production soon and I'm trying to figure this effect out. Any further help you can give would be very much appreciated! ;)
 
Plmediatech said:
Does anyone have a detailed hookup of this or a diagram that I could use to make the rose.
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For which idea? We've mentioned several in this thread.

Welcome to CB! Also, why don't you take a second and post an introduction over in the New Members Forum!
 
We just did this show in the spring; this is what we did.

We took a large fake rose and broke it up into petals and weaved florist wire in the middle of the petal. (Make sure you have lots of wire)

Leaving the middle head of the rose (the middle ball of petals) together. Take the woven petals and the rose head and put in a copper tubing wrapped in florist tape.

The copper tubing is connected to the base. At the bottom of the base we had a red light.

Then to make a petal fall, just pull the wire and a petal will fall.

I drew a quick picture if my explaining is confusing, it is in attachments.

I also added my only photo of our rose, it is pretty cool

we added a few times when a rose petal fell, like when Belle sees it for the 1st time and the end of act one

I hope this helps
 

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We kept it simple. We put it upstage about 8ft high on the 2nd level of the castle. it was always in light and always seen (unless in the village.) We put a glass case around it and lightly hot glued the petals on. We had fishing line run from the base of the petal to underneath the platforms. A crew member just pulled a string when it was to fall and it worked perfectly... simple and cheap
 
Well it's my turn to do B&B at my kids' school. Check out this video of a very clever, cheap, and easy solution to the rose I found.
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