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==''Creating the bursting paper effect''==
==''Creating the bursting paper effect''==


Paper used - 'Colorama' ChromaBlue_91* - 2.72x25m
We used professional photography background paper and attached it to the Cage Truck using wide industrial strength double sided sticky tape. Before applying the double sided tape, we attached a layer of Gaffer Tape to the perspex of the Cage Truck so that the sticky residue from the double sided tape did not remain when the paper had to be quickly struck during an interval.


Dealer: '''Professional Film Direct'''
The roll of paper we bought was  2.72x25m. The colour, ChromaBlue_91*. The manufacturer, 'Colorama.'
Address:
Unit 1
Cariocca Business Park
Hellidon Close
Manchester
M12 4AH


Tel: 0161 273 3003
We bought the paper from a company in Manchester who were very helpful and had the paper sent up to us within 24 hours. The company was '''Professional Film Direct'''. Their phone number 0161 273 3003. Their website www.pfdstore.com
E-Mail: profilm@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.pfdstore.com
 
Attached to the Cage Truck using industrial strength wide double sided sticky tape.
 
**TIP** We put down a layer of Gaffer Tape first so that the residue from the double sided tape didn't stick to the perspex of the Cage Truck


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Revision as of 21:46, 5 February 2013


A Midsummer Nights Dream 2013 - opera
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Creative
Director Olivia Fuchs
Writer Benjamin Britten
Designer Niki Turner
Original Lighting Designer Bruno Poet
Revival Lighting Designer Warren Letton
Video Designer Jon Driscoll
Conductor Timothy Dean
Stats
Venue Theatre Royal, Glasgow,Kings Theatre, Edinburgh

Story

Now in its eighth year, our ambitious Winter collaboration with Scottish Opera continues with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth with a revival of Olivia Fuchs’ 2005 production for the Royal Opera House of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Adapted from the Shakespeare play in collaboration with Peter Pears, Britten’s version is centred on the ethereal world of the fairies rather than the human action at the heart of the original.

Crew

  • Production Manager-




  • Chief Production Electrician- James Gow
  • Deputy Production Electrician-
  • Production Electricians-
  • Lighting Programmer/Operator-

TSM

Pucks Rope

SAFE SYSTEMS OF WORK 5

TASK – Artist Rope into Position

HAZARDS – Rope, Stinger dropped from Height Rope to come loose during performance

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED – Fixed Truss Piece in grid 2 Wire Rope Stinger from grid Master link tied between 2 fly bars to stop swing Ratchet straps to tie off flybars

PROTECTIVE CLOTHING –Safety Shoes, Hard Hat

PROCEDURE-

1. Wire rope Stingers taken to grid 2. Fixed onto load tested position 3. Lowered in to plump position 4. Artist rope taken up on to grid shackled on to stingers 5. Master link attached to fly bars 6. Rope dropped in from grid and through master link 7. Flybars ratchet off to flyfloor 8. Rope Tried and tested

Chinese Pole

SAFE SYSTEMS OF WORK

TASK – Aerial Artist Pole Installation

HAZARDS – Pole/equipment falling from height

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED – Bracket arm required to secure in auditorium box position Boom plate/tank trap Scaff clamps Fixings for boom plate to deck

PROTECTIVE CLOTHING –Safety Shoes, Hard Hat

PROCEDURE 4 crew required 1.Bottom pole walked up with 2 crew with line on through pulley on scaff bar in auditorium box crew in box taking strain on rope line 2. Pole put into through deck hole and into boom plate and fixed into position 3.1 crew member in each box in auditorium as top Pole part is lifted up 4. Rope line dropped in from crew member in top box 5.Rope clove hitched and scaffolders knot onto Top pole 6. Guided up by grounds men as crew in boxes pull up with rope 7. Guided into positioned and top pole slotted into bottom pole

Automation

As part of the set up for A Midsummer Nights Dream a performer had to fly in what was called the 'bower box'. To achieve this effect we used a Stage Tech system similar to the one we use in the New Athenaeum Theatre. The system had been changed slightly and added to in order to fly a performer and to achieve the correct effect.


The system was made up of the following equipment;

  • Illusonist Control Desk
  • Au-Tour Rack
  • UPS
  • Big Tow Winch (modified with 2 points)
  • Truss
  • Various Drifts
  • Swifter Lines (tention lines)


Because the winch only had 2 points coming from it, we attached them to truss and then attached the 4 bower points to the truss so that; A-all of the points coming off the bower were straight and B-We could lift the bower using the 2 lines on the winch and did not have to have an even more complicated system

Below is a diagram of how the system looked and how it was cabled up.


Stage Management

Creating the bursting paper effect

We used professional photography background paper and attached it to the Cage Truck using wide industrial strength double sided sticky tape. Before applying the double sided tape, we attached a layer of Gaffer Tape to the perspex of the Cage Truck so that the sticky residue from the double sided tape did not remain when the paper had to be quickly struck during an interval.

The roll of paper we bought was 2.72x25m. The colour, ChromaBlue_91*. The manufacturer, 'Colorama.'

We bought the paper from a company in Manchester who were very helpful and had the paper sent up to us within 24 hours. The company was Professional Film Direct. Their phone number 0161 273 3003. Their website www.pfdstore.com

Electrics