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Basics - A Beginner's Guide to Special Effects

Basics - A Beginner's Guide to Special Effects $19.99

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Peter Coleman

Published by Entertainment Technology Press

Welcome to the world of special effects

This authoritative Guide describes all types of special effects including pyrotechnic, smoke and lighting effects, projections, noise machines, etc

It places emphasis on the safe storage, handling and use of pyrotechnics

CONTENTS

Prologue

1 Pyrotechnics; Maroons; Confetti Cannon; Microdets

2 Smoke and Dry Ice

3 The Projected Image; Gobos; ImagePro; The Projected Moving Image; The Moving Head Lantern; The Animation Disk; The Tubular Ripple

4 the Dynamic Effect

5 What's Left?

6 Conclusions

Glossary

THE AUTHOR

Peter Coleman has a family background (he is the third generation) of technical theatre people and started work at The Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton, back in the 1960s

He learned the theatre trade - specifically lighting - in a theatre which offered the full range of traditional performance works, including 16 week seasons of weekly repertory.

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