Snow Drop
About
The Snow drop was built for The Snow Queen the 2016 christmas show. It required snow to fall across the span of the Ath stage for a couple minutes. the budget did not stretch to hire proper snow drops and we could not use "bubble snow" due to the floor and set not being able to take it. The idea was to build a snow roller using plastic pipe in workshop. This project was taken on by Stuart Leech TSM, Dimitri Grant DTM and Yesha Subotincic West Head of Flys.
Test
Click here to see how the test drop was built and looked.
Materials
- 2 __m plastic pipes.
- 4 wooden rounds to fit in the ends. Two will be screwed together to connect the centre.
- 12 backflap hinges.
- 6 pin hinges.
- 6 pin hinge pins.
- Black paint
Construction
Rigging
* An amendment to the rigging:
The Drop was too heavy to move smoothly from Fly Floor so the lines were instead to a counterweight bar (bar 14) with 5 weights in the cradle. The operation was therefore done by moving a bar in and out rather than pulling hemp lines.