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How To Use Various Netting and Gauze Fabrics in Scenic Design
Scenic designers use Netting and Gauze fabrics in combination with other scenery and lighting to create visual illusions and spatial depth. The transparency of netting and the translucency of gauze make these fabrics particularly well suited for these effects. The following describes the characteristics of various nettings and gauzes and how you might use them to best effect.
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Projection On Scrim
The effect of a scrim heavily depends on the control of stray light. It uses contrast to fool the eye into thinking that the material is opaque. Traditional theatrical scenic scrims are typically lit from a very steep angle so that the light that passes through the scrim falls just upstage or in the wings.
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Kaos helps depict steamy Mississippi Delta and character dynamic for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
The following is an edited version of our interview with Akiko Nishijima Rotch, Set Designer, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” playing at both the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau and the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage.
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Ominous Cotton Scrim Scenic Design Installation Using Projection & Lighting Techniques
Designer Ivy Flores created this gorgeous installation with the ominous title, “A Scenic View of the End of the World.” The installation consisted of hanging strips of cotton scrim arranged within a cave-like structure so that viewers could walk into the center of the space and look outwards.
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How to Create Scrim Panels that Move
Rose Brand congratulates our sixth blog contest winner, the team at Church on the Move. Their blog entry described how they built scrim panels that are vertically mobile for their Seeds Conference. Here is how THEY did it...
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How to Light a Sharkstooth Scrim (Part 3)
Here is the third article in our series on “How To Light A Scrim.” This article is derived from questions most frequently fielded by our salespeople at Rose Brand.
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How To Light A Sharkstooth Scrim (Part 2)
The most common placement of lighting instruments for a scrim is above and directly in front of the scrim. However, that isn't the only lighting position that will be effective. Remember: angle angle angle! As long as your lighting is oblique, and can wash the scrim, it doesn't have to be from above.
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How To Light A Sharkstooth Scrim (Part 1)
One might think that a fabric company has little to do with lighting. After all, while scenery and lighting design are inexorably linked, how important can fabric be to either? Yet the choices a designer makes in fabric, as with all the other elements, will directly affect the final look of the production.
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