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Revision as of 16:44, 17 January 2025
This page is an excerpt from the Innerspace 2024 page, with additional photographs, detailing how we created our set of sliding doors using the track available in the scene dock.
For our game show set we wanted to create a set of two sliding doors out of the gauze hard maskers that had been initially created for the show in the chandler prior to our innerspace (A Christmas Carol). We designed a system to do this using truss and track that had been inspired by the performer flying rig used in the show After Life. This consisted of two lines of Unibeam track on either of the bottom facing truss poles connected to scenery carriers (100kg) that had been attached to the top of the wooden frame of the maskers.
When testing the track it was easy enough to create a system where both carriers on the same track line moved in opposite directions, but since we wanted the two flats to be able to cross behind/in front of one another we needed them to be on separate tracks whilst moving simultaneously on a single operating line. To do this we - instead of using a return pulley - used an additional pulley at the end of each track to send the line in two right angles between the two track lines and then back on itself.
We used 10m of truss and 2x9m of track in order to give the flats enough room to travel the distance we would like, attach all the necessary accessories, and have some extra room for error.
As the height of our flats were a bit short of the distance from the stage floor to the rigging points overhead, we were left with a roughly meter long gap between the bottom of the flat and the floor. In order to cover this distance and give ourselves some adjustability in the height, we added some extra rigging between the scenery carriers and the flats. We used an eye bolt to a 1 ton shackle on both the carriers and the flats connected by a turnbuckle. This would take us to roughly 70mm off the ground, with some room for error either way thanks to the turnbuckle.
Gallery
Inital design
Test photos with annotation
Vectorworks rigging plan
