Musical + Technolgoy = One Spectacular Show!

Hey everyone! As some of you know, I recently just finished directing and producing The Wizard of Oz for Chateaugay Central School. In a previous post, I talked about how much technology we needed to use in order to pull off some of the cool special effects needed for the show. Not only did we need technology for the special effects, but we work with light boards and sound boards, and wireless microphones and projects, etc. We do just about everything! I just wanted to share some of our cool effects and a few of our scenes with everyone. I have some pictures below and a video clip of our "Dream Sequence" video. I'm very proud of my students. They all worked very hard and did a great job for the show. I'm also proud of myself and my fellow directors because we worked very hard to use technology to make this show great. Enjoy!


This is our wicked witch melting into the floor. We built a platform for this effect with a pulley system underneath. There is a stage crew member sitting behind the platform, lowering her into the floor. And so, it appears that she is melting.






This is when Dorothy and her friends go in to see the Wizard for the first time. We had a student in the projection room with a camera hooked up to a projector. This was done live for every performance. We used a digital effect on the camera and then projected our student's face onto a black center traveler curtain. It ended up looking pretty neat.




This is a shot from our "Dream Sequence" video. This is during the twister scene, when Dorothy hits her head and "sees" people fly by in the tornado. To see the video, click here. This was pre-recorded, and projected onto the big screen for every performance.





Below are some of my favorite scenes. I hope everyone enjoys the pics. For more pictures, you can check out our myspace page or our school's webpage.