Fireworks!

Not gonna lie, I love fireworks. I love the spectacle, and I love the great big thump they make when they explode. So the video below is pretty heavenly -- someone flew a small quadcopter into the middle of a fireworks display and recorded it in high-def. It's jaw dropping. Go ahead and watch it full-screen and in high-def.

But as much as I love fireworks, they're quite impractical for theatre. :-) So how do you create fireworks? What's your favorite fireworks gobo or strobing pattern? How do you create the flash?

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Permalink Reply by J.Henry Johnson on July 7, 2014 at 1:49pm
Being a pyrotechnician as well as a theatre professional I have to say that flying a drone into a fireworks display was incredibly stupid. There are a number of possible hazards involved if there had been a collision. I believe that there are Aldo federal regulations that were broken by doing this.
There are also liability concerns that could run into millions.
Permalink Reply by Eric Stehl on July 21, 2014 at 10:46am

Back in the late 80's for a production of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' for the finale of the birthday party, we had 8 welded mortars (Heavy tube steel (1" ID) on flat plate with a bottom touch hole). They were loaded with 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of A/B flash powder, and a model rocket igniter. The rig was loaded onto a Genie lift 12' in the air, way offstage and fired with a push-button switch box. The flash from the concussions still lit the cyc and was accented with colored stage light as the general light faded to black (end of Act).

Pretty effective.

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