How to make the theater of shadows?

The age of new technologies began, but at the same time, there are things that will never cease to be relevant and the theater of the shadows is one of them. Let's figure out today in detail how to create the theater of shadows with your own hands and find out what methods are available.

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Technique of the Theater of Shadows

The most important advantage of the theater of the Shadow is that it is created in front of the audience, which means that they are participants in such actions. It captures and impressive, filling every viewer unforgettable, bright emotions.

In fact, there is nothing easier than the technique of the theater under consideration, everything is simple to banal:

• The main participants in this act will be the figures from dense cardboard that can be cut on the finished pattern. Small plastic sticks are attached to them and wood.
• In order for the screen (stretched on the powder canvas), the "image" need light, and a rather bright source. If you make the screen very small (30 per 45 cm), then the usual desktop lamp will be enough for a good lighting of the built screen and all the characters behind it.
• The closer you will move the figures to the screen, the more realize their size.
• The screen is also made very simple - the canvas from not very dense tissue is tightened to the frame that you can buy or do it yourself. Tightening the canvas is very tight, so that there are no folds on it.
• Special wooden rails are attributed to the canvas frame, so that they are supporting and kept the screen in a vertical position (in this case, no one will have to keep it in hand). In this case, the theater of Shadows will be able to create one person without assistance.

The option in question is the easiest way, so make such a theater for everyone who has a desire.

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Overall theater of Shadows

So, if the small screen does not fit you, and you want to show a view of more viewers, it must be remembered that for such dimensions, the light source must also be different, here is the scheme of its device:

• For a sufficiently large screen, a projection lamp is perfect or at least a light bulb (its power is 100 watts).
• Matter for the screen should not be dense and white (because the shadows are gray, it is logical). Among other things, everything is perceived on a white canvas completely differently, so it's not for nothing other colors for the theater of shadows are not used.
• The standard size of a large screen for the theater of the shadows is usually 170x220 cm. In this case, the screen is to fix at an altitude of 85 cm from the floor, at a minimum.
• For the stretched screen, a frame must be installed (the presence of grooves in this case is required). The standard size of its 30 x50. It will not make it independently difficult, because the basis for her will be a cardboard (it should be quite thick) or a thin plywood.
• It is on this frame that all elements of scenery will be fixed, against the background of which the main characters of this act will move. It is necessary to do everything possible in order for the silhouettes to be visible to the audience clearly.

• Artists who will fulfill all the action on the screen are usually sitting outside the screen (near the edges of the frame). It should be installed lamp placed in a small box. Do not forget that in the box you need to make a hole of a small size (5 per 10 cm will be enough).
• It is also very important to calculate the correct distance of some objects from others. For example, in the case of a dimensional screen, the distance from the frame to the light source must be at least 35 cm (but not more than 45 cm). The screen from the frame should be located at a distance of 125 cm (maximum 135 cm).
• Often, the same color slides is used in the shadows theater. To do this, in the box where the light source is located, color filters are inserted (it can be a transparent square piece of plastic painted in the color you need). It can also be glass of different colors and other materials.
• If you want to make a tree not gray in the background, but green, just put an additional source of lighting from the side of the screen and attach a green filter to it.

If no filters are applied, all shadows on the screen will be black (dark). In addition to the shadows in the theater, you can make voice acting, so you will make a speech more bright, memorable and interesting.

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Secrets of the creation of the theater of shadows in 5 minutes

The theater of shadows can be created in the blink of an eye, and this is not a joke. Imagine the situation - the children are watching the TV all day, playing the computer and tear them very difficult from these not useful classes. And suddenly one of the parents invites children to visit the home theater of the shadows, the answer will be unequivocal - the children will agree, because it is something unusual and not everyday.

You will need to prepare only 5 minutes:

• We find a white sheet and hang it, for example, on the magnitude of one of the faithful openings.
• Children sit in front of the opening. In hand, everyone gives something delicious, you can fruits, in general, silent something.
• Find a desk lamp, and if it did not turn out, you can use a flashlight as a light source (there is such a device in a mobile device). It is necessary to have it for the doorway, where the artists will be (in this case, parents).
• Actors in this case will be the figures of animals and people who you will do with your hands (a list of possible figures and an example you can find on the Internet).

Then everything depends on your imagination and wishes of the audience. Even a banal and all the famous tale by the story of her through the theater of Shadows will seem very interesting and fascinating children.