From: "Ken Berman" <dramatontheater-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Spandex shadow screen
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 06:24:21 +0000



Try putting a dollar store vinyl shower curtain up behind the spandex.






Ken Berman 

Dramaton Theater 







>From: "Mary Robinette Kowal" 


>Reply-To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU 

>To: 


>Subject: PUPT: Spandex shadow screen 

>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 00:19:43 -0400 

> 

>Okay folks, here's a problem that I need help with. I'm working on a show 

>that uses Shoji screens for our shadow screens. When discussing what to use 

>for the screen material we batted around a couple of ideas and spandex came 

>up. We liked the idea because the stretch could be interesting for special 

>effects and it wasn't direct shadow, so there was no concern about the 

>puppets touching the screen. One member of the design team had used 

>spandex before with good success. 

> 

>The director had large amounts from another show and brought it in to the TD 

>who installed in in the screens. The screens are put together in such a way 

>that to remove the fabric would destroy the frame. We didn't test the 

>fabric. (No lectures please.) It is a lighter gauge spandex than expected 

>and when backlit acts as a diffuse scrim. You can see people, colors, 

>pretty much everything along with an enormous hotspot. Who am I kidding? 

>You can see the lamp. 

> 

>We will be doing overhead projector shadows and masked human shadows 

>(inspired by Larry Reed) 

> 

>Does any one have any suggestions for making this more opaque. I will 

>gladly sacrifice the stretch. I looked in the archives because I remembered 

>a discussion about adding a glue coat to muslin. We are also batting around 

>the ideas of fusible interfacing, starch, and painting it with liquid 

>latext. 

>Yes... we'll do tests of all of these, but I want to know if anyone has any 

>other ideas. Even crazy ones. The only catch is that I can't take the 

>fabric out of the screen. 

> 

>Thanks, 

>Mary 

>------- 

>Mary Robinette Kowal 

>http://www.otherhandproductions.com 

> 

> 

> 

> 

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