Rich Desilets |
A Flashing Cane for Casting Spells |
One of the special effects I designed for Theatreworks’ 1992 production of Into the Woods was built into the witch’s light-emitting cane. Many times throughout the action the witch uses her cane to “flash her victims” as she casts a spell. To avoid having to reload a flash-paper device of some sort, I investigated other ways to produce flashes of light. Ultimately, I discovered that a small commercially available photo flash mounted at one end of a solid acrylic rod would generate what can be best described as a “lump of light” which travels down the rod.
FIGURE 1: THE FLASHING CANE (DRESSING ...
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