Technical design solutions for theatre : the technical brief collection. Vol. 1 / [editors] Bronislaw J. Sammler, Don Harvey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sammler, Bronislaw J. (Bronislaw Joseph), 1945-

Harvey, Don.

Yale School of Drama. Department of Technical Design and Production.

Series:

Technical brief collection ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stage machinery.

Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery.

Theaters.

Theaters--Lighting.

Theaters--Sound effects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1版ition

Other Title:

Technical brief collection

Place of Publication:

Boston : Focal Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical problems so that fellow theatre technicians can avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new challenge. The range of topics includes scenery, props, painting, electrics, sound, and costumes. The articles each describe an approach, device, or technique that has been tested on stage or in a shop by students and professionals.<BR id

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; LIGHTING; Hanging Cardboards; A System to Facilitate Hanging Lights; Another System to Facilitate Hanging Lights; Computer-Assisted Lighting Design; Acid-Cut Gobos; An Improved Boom-Base Sandbag; Easily Concealed Low-Profile Lighting Fixtures; Low-Cost ACL Fixtures; Two Devices to Simplify Cable Tracing; LIGHTING EFFECTS; Simple Smoke; A Fog Machine Silencer; A Fog Manifold; Groundrow Fog Disperser; Pyro Stand; A Photographic Aid in the Preparation of Scenic Projections; A Fiber-Optic Star Drop

A Television Lighting EffectDancing Light; PAINTING; Theatrical Application of Aniline Dye; Metallic Painting Process; Frosting Plexiglas® Windows with Beer and Epsom Salts; Texture Techniques Using Paper and Flexible Glue; Photo-Murals for the Stage; Painting Photographic Scenery Using Friskets; Photocopy Transfers; Two Periscopes for Full-Scale Cartooning; Easy Stenciling Technique; PROPS; Snowballs for the Stage; Artificial Canapes; Stage Blood; A Remote-Controlled Portable Water Source; Circuitry for a Remotely Dimmable Portable Lighting Practical; Remote-Control Live Fire

High-Volume, Low-Cost Modelling ClayGelatin Molds; A Remote-Controlled Flash Effect; Growing Flowers Onstage; Break-Away Glass: Formula and Process; A Butane Torch for Use Onstage; A Safe Lamp-Oil Torch; A Light -Sensitive Portable Practical; Faking Waterproof Beer Can Labels; Quick Casts in Under Two Hours; Liquefied Auto Body Putty; A Very Useful Snow Machine; RIGGING HARDWARE; A Hinge Device to Facilitate Hanging Vertical Booms; Sandwich Batten Clamps; Spider-Cable Clamps; PVC and Steel Pipe Traveler System; The Internal Expansion Pipe Splice; A ""Bulldog Clip"" Quick-Release Rig

Phenolic Resin Pulleys: Out of the Skies and into the FutureRIGGING TECHNIQUES; Flying Drops in Limited Fly Space; A Quick and Simple Rigging System; A Quick and Simple Rigging System: Addendum; A Simultaneous Travel-Fly Rig; A Travel-Fly Rig Modified; A Quiet Wire-Rope Curtain Track; Automatic Drop Tripping; Rotating Flats While Flying; Offset Flying; A Tracked System for Flying Actors; A Safe and Sag-Free Cable Curtain Track; A Parallel-Guide Rig; SAFETY; General Specifications for Stairs and Ladders; Compliance with Fire Safety; Determining Tension in Bridling Lines

Allowable Loads on Lumber-Nail JointsA Comparison of Rope-Braking Devices; Fire Safety Handbook; SCENERY; Sawdust Street Bricks; Decision Trees; Improved Soft-Covered Stock Masking Units; Mass-Producing Styrofoam® Balusters; Laying Out Odd-Shaped Raked Decks; Free-Standing Curved Staircase; I-Beam Tracking System; A Measured Approach to Kerfing; Alternate Spike Marks; SCENERY DECKS; Stressed-Skin Platform Units; Modular Platform Legging; Open-Corner Platforms; Lap-Joint Decks; A Platform System; Two Methods of Constructing Terrain Decks; A Non-Skid Groundcloth; A Laminated Plywood Turntable

A Plasticene-Styrofoam® Deck Plug

Notes:

Reprint of articles from Technical brief.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612617645

9781136081651

1136081658

9781282617643

1282617648

9780080518565

0080518567

OCLC:

700688869