How Do You Create Theater Special Effects?
Special effects on the movie screen are becoming more awe inspiring every year with technological breakthroughs and artistic know-how. Special effects in the theater can be just as awe inspiring with technology, but the artistic know-how is more important. With some help, you can create great theater special effects that can blow your live audience away. Make good use of your semi-transparent scrim. It is a gauzy curtain that is positioned toward the back of the stage, and it appears opaque when the lights are trained directly on the front of it. When the lights are turned on behind it, this can help you create some wonderful special effects in your theater. Use a projection of a face or scene behind the scrim for a great special effect at the end of “The Wizard of Oz” or in a creepy thriller. You can paint the scrim in these scenarios to have the scrim serve as your backdrop in the theater and the projection site. Build trap doors into your stage to help actors appear as if from nowhe
