Delighted1
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Great site and info, but this one's got me stumped.
High School production of the Wizard of Oz, and we can't use any pyrotechnics - no flash paper, powder, nothing - so how do we do an acceptable fireball from the witch to the scarecrow?
The witch will be on a platform, the scarecrow on the stage, and the best we've come up with so far is a short zipline on which we can hang a red, yellow, and orange gelled clear plastic mayonnaise jar - the witch "throws" the jar by grabbing it during her windup for the throw and then propelling it down the line. The jar can slide down the line to a hard stop near the scarecrow.
I'm looking for suggestions on other easier ways to do it, or comments on what can be used as a constant light source within the jar when it's "thrown" by the witch. For an extra POP at the end of it's travel, we have access to a good supply of old-style photographic flashbulbs, so an inertial trigger of some sort and some batteries within the jar might fit the bill (i.e., when the jar comes to a sudden stop at the end of its travel, we'd like to use the impact against the stop to provide the force needed to close a contact and fire the flashbuld within the jar).
Am I making this more complicated than it needs to be, and/or has anyone fiddled with cobbling together this sort of rig? As usual with school productions, budget's an issue, and creative workarounds plentiful.
Any assistance and suggestions will be most appreciated!
Thanks!
High School production of the Wizard of Oz, and we can't use any pyrotechnics - no flash paper, powder, nothing - so how do we do an acceptable fireball from the witch to the scarecrow?
The witch will be on a platform, the scarecrow on the stage, and the best we've come up with so far is a short zipline on which we can hang a red, yellow, and orange gelled clear plastic mayonnaise jar - the witch "throws" the jar by grabbing it during her windup for the throw and then propelling it down the line. The jar can slide down the line to a hard stop near the scarecrow.
I'm looking for suggestions on other easier ways to do it, or comments on what can be used as a constant light source within the jar when it's "thrown" by the witch. For an extra POP at the end of it's travel, we have access to a good supply of old-style photographic flashbulbs, so an inertial trigger of some sort and some batteries within the jar might fit the bill (i.e., when the jar comes to a sudden stop at the end of its travel, we'd like to use the impact against the stop to provide the force needed to close a contact and fire the flashbuld within the jar).
Am I making this more complicated than it needs to be, and/or has anyone fiddled with cobbling together this sort of rig? As usual with school productions, budget's an issue, and creative workarounds plentiful.
Any assistance and suggestions will be most appreciated!
Thanks!
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