cedd Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Got an event on this evening at Church. Just a chilled out concert. I've got a couple of 30W cheapo movers and some LED pars in for it. I've been thinking about haze (I don't have a hazer) and have the option of using a fan and my smoke machine. It seems a little overkill though, especially as my smoke machine is a flipping huge Martin one. I don't think it'll hang for long enough - I'd rather not be triggering it during the event, just beforehand to build up haze if possible. It got me thinking though, I've got a tin of that "Magician" haze in a tin that I bought for a demonstration using a lazer. I only used a couple of squirts of it, so I've nearly got a full tin. It claims that a tin will spray for 5 minutes and will hang for up to 2 hours. The room is a church hall that seats a couple of hundred people. It'll only maybe have a hundred in tonight though. It's pretty airtight - no real draughts or air handling. Anybody used the Magician stuff to fill a room before? Does it "do what it says on the tin" and how large a room will it fill? I only need a light haze for picking these mover beams out. I know I could just try it and see how it goes, but if it doesn't work then I've wasted the tin and will also have a bit of a rush to get the smoke machine warmed up and sorted. Don't want to start with the haze until the last possible moment. Of course what I really need to do is go out and buy a Unique..... maybe next year I'll be able to afford it!
ImagineerTom Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 I've only ever used it (rebadged) as a can of hairspray for the musical - it makes a nice visible display at the moment of squirting and a chemical fug for a few seconds afterwards but I'd struggle to believe it had any lasting effect anywhere other than in someone's bedroom disco. 12 cans of it used extensively in a song-n-dance routine had vanished by the next number...
cedd Posted March 29, 2015 Author Posted March 29, 2015 Fair enough. I'll grab the smoke machine and my desk fan! Thinking about it, I think it's what they were using in the production of Hairspray that I did last week and it did exactly what you said, looked good for a few seconds and then vanished. That said, it was a 1500 seat house with a chuffing huge fly tower. I think the fact that it's sold primarily in Maplins says enough for me - house parties and discos maybe, but probably not what I need.
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