How to Make a Turning Stage

A rotating stage gives the audience on all sides a view of the action.

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A turning stage is an effective way to give everyone in the audience a view of what is happening. A turning stage can also give the appearance of actors traveling as they walk along the edge of the stage and scenery goes by. Two different sets placed back to back on a turning stage can facilitate a quick scene change as the stage rotates and another scene appears. Build your own turning stage for your production, thereby expanding the capabilities of your old stationary stage.

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Measure the floor of your existing stage, and determine the center point. For a rectangular stage, extend a diagonal line from each front corner to the back corner on the opposite side of the stage. The lines cross at the center point, which is the pivot point for your rotating stage.

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Screw a flange into the floor at the center point. Use a flange that is not threaded inside. Tighten the flange down well, as your entire stage will pivot around this flange. Using 1/4-inch wood screws that are 1 inch long, place the screws in the pre-drilled holes on the flange. Hold the flange in position as you screw the screws through the holes in the flange into the floor.

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Cut a 6-inch length of pipe of a diameter that fits into the flange. Push the pipe into the flange. Screw the set screw in the side of the flange down tightly so that the pipe does not move.

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Join plywood sheets together to make your rotating stage the size you want it. Though the sheets are square, join them before cutting the circle you will need for your rotating stage. Join 4-by-8-foot sheets together using butt joints with blocks. Butt the edges of the sheets together, and glue them. Cut 6-by-18-inch blocks from plywood, and screw them to the undersides of the joints, using 3/4-inch screws so they won't stick out. Place each block so that it straddles the joint. Space the blocks along the length of the joint, leaving 6 inches between blocks.

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Saw a circle out of the joined plywood. This will be the floor of your rotating stage. If the cut intersects a place where you have supported a joint with a block, continue the cut. You will have a partial block support at this point, but it will be strong enough to support your actors, because the next block will be no further than 6 inches away.

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Screw a flange that is the same size as the flange on the old stage floor into the center of the rotating platform, using screws that do not penetrate to the other side of the floor. Note that at this point your rotating stage floor is upside down to make it easier for you to work on it.

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Screw straight-line castors to the edges of the rotating stage floor. Space them out to support the edges of your rotating stage floor. Place the castors 2 feet apart so that the edge of the stage will be adequately supported.

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Add an additional circle of castors halfway between the edge of the platform and the center point. Place these a foot apart to add strength to the platform.

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Turn your entire rotating stage platform over, and place the flange on top of the pipe that is secured in the flange in the stage floor. Do not tighten the set screw in the second flange, because you want the flange to rotate around the pipe. The casters are now on the stage floor holding up the edges of your rotating platform.

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Attach a black rope to the edge of the rotating platform by screwing a large eye screw into the platform and tying the rope to it. This allows you to pull the rotating platform, making it rotate.

Tips & Warnings

If your rotating platform is very large, add one or two more circles of castors to get the support you need.

Use straight-line castors rather than swiveling castors so that you will be able to easily reverse the direction of rotation of the stage.

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Adding a JPEG Image to a CBR Comic

CBR files turn a collection of JPEG images into a digital comic book.

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The CBR file extension is a special type of compressed file for digital comic book reading devices that converts a series of JPEG images into a readable comic book format. CBR files make it possible for comic book creators to distribute their work digitally without having to spend lengthy periods of time converting their files into a readable interface. Should you forget a page or need to make an addition, a CBR file can be converted back to a compressed file folder, allowing you to recompose the comic whenever necessary.

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Right-click on the CBR comic and select "rename". If you do not want to completely overwrite the file, make a copy before your rename it.

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Replace the .cbr file extension with a .rar or .zip extension to convert the file format. Check your file compression software to see which file extension is compatible.

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Unzip the renamed title, using your compression software. Copy and paste the JPEG image into the folder.

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Compress the folder back into a .rar or .zip file using your compression software.

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Change the file extension of the compressed folder back to .cbr to convert the file. The JPEG will automatically be added into your comic when you open the file with digital comic book software.

Tips & Warnings

This process also works for adding a JPEG file to a .cbz file extension, which is a similar digital comic file type.

Pages will automatically view in alpha-numeric order, so make sure the JPEG you are adding to the file is properly labeled. For example, "Page10.jpg" would come immediately after "Page1.jpg." Instead the file should read "Page01.jpg."

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How to Make the Scenery for a Theater Production

A backdrop depicts the setting and mood of a scene.

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Scenographers, set designers and scene painters are a vital part of a theater production, as the scenery brings the setting of the theatrical piece to life. If you are a set designer, an open communication between yourself and the director, as well as you and the scene painters and set dressers, is vital to the success of the scenery.

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Meet with the director. Discuss the show and the nature of individual scenes. These discussions should cover where and when a drop will be used and how it will be painted.

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Rent or buy a drop. Whether to rent or buy boils down to how you plan to use the drop in future productions, if at all. If the drop you're painting is very specific to a single show, then it will probably be difficult to use it for other shows. In this case, renting would probably be best option, as it would be cheaper than buying a drop. If, however, the drop pattern is more generic and can hold out for future shows, such as a blue sky with clouds or a green pasture, then buying the drop might be more cost-effective.

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Take note of as many details as possible regarding the drop before buying or renting -- such as the specific size and dimensions, type of fabric and the exact schedule of the show. The more thorough you are with these details, the more cost effective the delivery of the drop.

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Check the drop for flame retardant properties. Read your state's guidelines on fire retardant requirements. If the drop has little or no flame retardant properties, you might have to add a layer of flame retardant spray after the drop is finished.

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Sketch out in pencil the imagery of the backdrop to scale before painting it on. The preliminary sketches can be on paper before it is drawn on the drop. If the sketch is particularly complex, you can draw it on a transparency and use an overhead projector to trace the lines.

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Obtain and use paints made especially for theater and drop painting, which you can buy in theater or paint supply stores. Normal hardware store paint will not work, especially if you plan on using more complex wet paint techniques such as marbling.

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Refer with your director regularly throughout the planning and painting process. Make sure he is satisfied with the work and take into account any notes of changes or improvements he might have and adjust accordingly.

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How to Make Fake Fronten von Pappe

Use cardboard fronts to improve your stage performances.

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Cardboard is a versatile material that lends itself well to the creation of false fronts for stage backgrounds. No stage show, is at home completely without a good facade whether for school or for entertaining family and friends. Whether the setting of a Western style is sedan, desert tundra or wall, can box as your canvas and create a scene, which helps your performance more credible look. You can also a cardboard front an imaginative spaces or fairy tale world a games room to create.

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Measure the area for which you want to create a cardboard front wall or stage. Choose your front should be as high. Let the end determine the height of the front; for example, if the finished front is a Western-style bar, measure you cardboard so it is about 4 feet high. When the front comes on a wall, you make it double, or 8 meters high.

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Cut the carton on the length and height, you need the utility knife. Band-cardboard pieces together with electrical tape along all seams.

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Paint box front on the object or scene you need covered with acrylic paint. Let dry colour overnight or for 12 hours.

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Construct support front-end for the Board, while the paint dries. Cut a 2 by 4 wooden board to adjust the length of cardboard front. Line three additional 2 by 4 wooden boards perpendicular to the ends and middle of longer 2-by-4. The three vertical panels relating to long horizontal by hammering two size D wood nails by the horizontal bar at the end of the three vertical bars.

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Section three additional 2-by-4 boards, achieving a diagonal from the ends of the three vertical panels on the back of a painted cardboard front. Beat two size D wood nails by the diagonal of Board their bases, where they meet the vertical boards.

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Cut three final 2-by-4 boards and place them vertically between horizontal support and the diagonal support beams. Beat two size D wood nails through the tops of the vertical supports in the diagonal bar. Have help someone turn you support structure on the page, so you two nails through the bottom of the horizontal bar to hammer in the ends of three vertical beams size D wood.

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Applies from a hot glue gun to the back of the cardboard the wood glue or hotmelt front, where it meets the wood support structure. Expect that the structure to keep cardboard fronts in place and prevent that they fall over during your performances.

Tips & warnings

If your cardboard front short, such as such as 10 meters or less, build only a vertical and diagonal of support beams in the middle of the horizontal support in contrast to three, which is more suitable for longer box fronts.

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As you clothes for laundering colourfast

Noncolorfast clothing to the rest of the load laundry stain.

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It is incredibly frustrating, a load of laundry only to find out that an element not colourfast and dye other clothes bled has to wash. A small amount of preparation with a few household products can the dye a washable garment in the middle and make it safe for future washing. Take the time, a garment make true you save much time and effort in the future.

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You test the garment for color-fastness, by getting an inside seam wet. Rub the area carefully with a white cotton ball to see whether one of the color transfers. This is the case, remove the garment from the wash load be handled.

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Fill a clean bucket with 1 liter of water. 2/3 Cup vinegar and stir thoroughly to mix.

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Soak the garment in vinegar solution and leave for 15 minutes before laundering it on its own water soak in it. Dry the item to the highest heat for the material to set the color more allowed.

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Again, test the dried piece of clothing with the cotton ball. If there is still evidence of dye, the steps again until the color and you can to wash the item with other clothes.

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Follow always the water temperatures and money-laundering instructions on a piece of clothing that attempting to set a color.

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How to fake bushes

Realistic miniature artificial bushes are hard to find.

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Fake find full-size bushes is a simple matter, because many retailers who carry them. Find fake bushes on a smaller scale can be as pretty complicated, especially if you realistically want to look like the bushes. The task can be even more difficult if the fake bushes to shelf life want to be. Whether you want decoration miniature jacks for a diorama or something a little bigger for a table, the process is similar to, if you make them yourself.

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Some nice completely empty branches close end to harvest a large tree limb or sections of the new growth of a large and very mature Bush. Select branches of the little finger decoration and branches less than the circumference of a pencil for diorama only smaller than the circumference for the table-top medium-sized miniatures. Select a branch are the appropriate size of the Bush in your trunk.

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Many smaller branches to grafting on to trim in the larger branch. Use branches to five or more smaller branches grow from the end and an inch or more naked space, to integrate it into the larger settlement.

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Wrap floral wire to one of the larger branches in your trunk and then wrap the wire around a small branch and on the basis of more establishment Bush space free. Repeat the process until you have many branches extend from your trunk.

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You trim branches, so that you have a bushy-looking Assembly of branches with many small branches to populate. Use floral band around the combined branches, extract the wire and make your branches look like to include.

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The base of the trunk from flat cut and it sand smooth. Glue of the base in a bottle for a miniature Bush or in a clean tuna can decoration for a table top. Fill the inside of the CAP or can with melted paraffin. Pour fine sand of paraffin and let it cool, overcrowding of sand in the wax. Spray adhesive wax and casting ground more sand on the base. Shake excess. Repeat the process if you can see the paraffin.

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Cut sheets in different sizes of paper or a solid green substance. Choose alternative for short-term use, small sheets of a Bush or tree sprouting. Start the smaller branches with the larger leaves and hot glue of each leaf on a branch, fill out the bottom of the Bush after above and from the inside out. Complete the fields, with smaller leaves, make sure that you small leaves at the ends of every twig. Paste smaller sheets to form Bush and at the top of.

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If you want your Bush to blossom, draw small colorful tissue paper flowers. Cut flowers and stick them on the outer form of Bush. Fog with fragrant essential oils such as lavender, rose, lemon balm or orange if you'd like your viewers to believe that they can smell the flowers Busch.

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How to see from someone like a bird in after effects

Print this ArticleTo someone looked like a bird in after effects animate components the "Opacity" and "Path" the image of a person and the image of a bird. This effect not as realistic as the 3D see transformations, in big-budget films, but is clear and potentially enjoyable to watch it. This project is based on the animation tools in after effects, which include its Keyframing capabilities. Key frames are the start and frames of an animation sequence. If you define this framework, after effects can be the sequence of other frames.

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Click the menu "File" command "Import", then navigate to and double-click on the image of a person you want to look like a bird. After Effects loads photo for you to work with.

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On the toolbar icon, click how to formed a rectangle to run the tool "Mask" and you then drag image, about the person received the rectangle around it. Click on the symbol icon shaped as, run the tool "Path", handles dragging a feather pen the rectangle, the rectangle outline of person fit.

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Click the menu "File" command "Import", then navigate to and double-click on the image of a bird, in which you change, to the person.

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The item "Mask" in the time bar window, then click on the stopwatch icon next to the "path" element, and click on the stopwatch icon next to the label "Opacity". Set keyframes for the mask, which make its shape and transparency can change over the course of the animation for these actions.

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Drag the vertical bar in the timeline panel at least 15 frames to the right to the brand "current time" ahead of the animation. Enter "0" in the text box on the right side for the label "Opacity" in the time bar window to indicate that the image in the mask to fade over time, the animation is to be achieved the current frame.

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At any point of the mask in the composition window, drag the mask outline to correspond to that change by the bird image.

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Drag the bar "Time stamp for the current time" Center 1 rewind of the animation, then create a different mask, which position and form the first mask in this context. Set keyframes for the "Opacity" and "Path" of the second Panel, as the first elements. Also, enter the number on the right side of the "visibility" name for the new mask "0" in the time bar window. This makes the bird invisible at the beginning of the animation.

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You drag the brand "current time" on the right side by the same amount it moved the person animating the mask. You use the tool "Pen" to the second mask may refer to: the shape of a bird, like you is the first Panel. Enter "100" in the number in the time bar window of the label "opacity" is located on the right side. This indicates that you the bird picture should be displayed at this point in the animation.

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Click on the Preview Panel "Play" button to the image of the person, that change in the bird.

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