For our end of the year choir production, we have this thing called "senior song," where the seniors sing a song of their choice, and then everyone else comes in at the end of the song to sing a song with a long tradition, "you'll never walk alone." While we're singing the last song, the juniors give the seniors roses as a tradition. I, being called the Tech God in choir (because some people there don't know how to turn a mic on...) thought it would be fun to have a fog effect, where the fog would come on at the end of the senior song, and the juniors would walk through the fog with the roses. We had a fog machine in theatre from a few productions ago, but I didn't know where it was, and plus many people complained that some people may be alergic to the fog. Therefore, we ran with dry ice. It was only needed for one performance, for like two minutes. I THOUGHT that theatre had tubes and a chiller and the whole shebang, and being the facilities manager for theatre, i thought i knew where it was. longstoryshort, i couldn't find it in time. also, we didnt even have a fan.
what i ended up doing was:
during the senior song, i crawled under the risers, and, with the help of some parents, placed hot water and MANY crushed pieces of dry ice into trays, and pushed them along the bottom of the risers. i backed up, and me and two other parents began to fan the dry ice with pizza boxes.
it was an epic failure. the dry ice effect only reached the people right in front of where the trays were. it was an epic three minutes of pushing trays farther towards the seniors, but it was a fail, because the dry ice pretty much lost its effect five seconds in.
the FML moment: the week after the show, i found the tubes, the box, and the machine.
It was a learning experience though. I bought 20 lbs of dry ice and ended up not using all of it, so i ended up using it a day later for a video project where i had an epic death into a swimming pool....
what i ended up doing was:
during the senior song, i crawled under the risers, and, with the help of some parents, placed hot water and MANY crushed pieces of dry ice into trays, and pushed them along the bottom of the risers. i backed up, and me and two other parents began to fan the dry ice with pizza boxes.
it was an epic failure. the dry ice effect only reached the people right in front of where the trays were. it was an epic three minutes of pushing trays farther towards the seniors, but it was a fail, because the dry ice pretty much lost its effect five seconds in.
the FML moment: the week after the show, i found the tubes, the box, and the machine.
It was a learning experience though. I bought 20 lbs of dry ice and ended up not using all of it, so i ended up using it a day later for a video project where i had an epic death into a swimming pool....