December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 35m
English
Parris Bradly |
The Cheap, Easy, and Effective Snow Machine |
Making it snow for Villanova University’s production of Angels in Americu, I faced several difficulties: it had to snow at several onstage locations; we didn’t have a few thousand dollars to spare; and my crew consisted of unskilled student labor. The biggest obstacle, though, was that, since the grid of our black box theatre is close to the ceiling, there was no room to mount a snow cradle, and the snow would have to be stored and loaded into a distribution system that started in the wings. In response, I designed and built an inexpensive, very workable, and nearly foolproof snow machine.
FIGURE 1: INEFFICIENT AND EFFICIENT SNOW MACHINE LAYOUTS
The snow machine consists of a bathroom ...
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