So I was going to start building one of those homemade ice cooler chillers for our fog machine, or some terrible party fogger, just to have it. I wonder though, my understanding is that when people walk through it, it kicks up, looks awful, and eventually hazy. I'm wondering if anyone has any stage pictures of those in action. I'm wondering if it is even worth making one if it will result in an effect so terrible, it's useless. Now I wouldn't mind the dissipation into a broken haze aspect, but if it just kicks up where footsteps are, it seems like it would look quite funny. I've seen low lying fog used once before (center city, The Walnut Street Theatre). It was like a thick carpet being unrolled, and was so dense, it didn't seem like quite the effect I wanted. (Though it was quite cool, they used it to create "water". They had some sort of motorized paddle boat, which the actor "paddled" across the stage through the fog to the pier.)
Does anyone have any other thoughts pertaining to building one of these devices? I think I've done my homework on them quite well. I've given the other threads here a once over, but would appreciate any newer input.
My thought as of now is to build the standard cooler chiller, but instead of the tubing, i'd use aluminum sheets, vertically, to force the fog around, and directly through the ice. I plan to extend the 90º bend, to allow more room for the fog to chill, and at the bottom of the 90º bend, include a space to place dry ice. At the end of the cooler I'd place a high CFM fan, between the flexible duct and cooler. There would be about 6 feet of flexible duct with another fan at the end. Both fans would be wired together, and the controls run back to the cooler, for variable speed.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Should I just abandon ship on this project all together? (As a note, it's not specifically for the upcoming show. I'm sitting around for a couple weeks at the end of this summer, and am looking for something to do.)
Does anyone have any other thoughts pertaining to building one of these devices? I think I've done my homework on them quite well. I've given the other threads here a once over, but would appreciate any newer input.
My thought as of now is to build the standard cooler chiller, but instead of the tubing, i'd use aluminum sheets, vertically, to force the fog around, and directly through the ice. I plan to extend the 90º bend, to allow more room for the fog to chill, and at the bottom of the 90º bend, include a space to place dry ice. At the end of the cooler I'd place a high CFM fan, between the flexible duct and cooler. There would be about 6 feet of flexible duct with another fan at the end. Both fans would be wired together, and the controls run back to the cooler, for variable speed.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Should I just abandon ship on this project all together? (As a note, it's not specifically for the upcoming show. I'm sitting around for a couple weeks at the end of this summer, and am looking for something to do.)