Theater Backdrop
The words for today are “Oleo Background.” That’s a term for those fancy motorized background that move around during a stage show. One thing that you will learn in Entertainment is that there isn’t always a place that you can go and buy something. This is where there are prop makers and set designers and what not. Their jobs are to craft what doesn’t already exist.
Believe it or not, a lot of the things that you see in Rick Wilcox’s show are custom made and if there are more than one of them, they are truly limited edition. I asked Rick where new illusions come from and there are illusion makers. There is also the theater of the mind. This is a place where illusions are crafted and concepted before they are created.
I looked over some photos that rock had sent me and I saw sketches in there for a new illusion and the mechanics in them. I think it starts with what you want the audience to see and you figure out how to make it work after that.
This week’s video shows how Rick came up with the Oleo Background that looks like a medieval castle and how the person that he enlisted to make this effect happen created yet another one of a kind piece that can only be viewed in the Rick Wilcox Theater.
Check out the video below and we will talk to you next week!
Chris Taylor