@@christinemeleg4535 what? 1. the original comment never said that 2. this school is obviously somewhat wealthy. Schools with a tight budget already don’t spend that much money on the arts so I don’t know what you are advocating for with that comment. 3. are you really calling theatre just a “make believe” class? even after this amazing video? LOL
Gabekarr this is actually a theatre company I participate in called CYT. This is specifically the Fredericksburg branch but there are many branches around the country. If your actually interested in this just look up CYT
These kids are learning PRACTICAL lessons: Problem Solving = preparing young people for life. Performing on Stage = building confidence and communication skills. Castmates = learning to work with others. So please-- Do NOT cut school arts budgets ʕ•́؈•̀ʔ
xjAlbert yes! I wish I would’ve gotten an education like this in school. I’m in film school now but getting some hands on experience working on a production would’ve set me up early on. I’m now watching this video for ideas for a short film I’m shooting that needs to be one shot lol.
Who are you addressing your complaint to? What have you done to actively support schools that are struggling to keep classes financed on a strict budget? What about students who are not interested in theater or performing arts, why are they allowed to be shortchanged? Perhpas those interested in science should just be shoved aside for a "make-believe."
I was in this! this was my first production ever with CYT, I remember being so amazed by the special effects! so fun to see all of my friends so little and baby faced...this special effects class made the show what it was, it turned out to have the highest amount of tickets sold ever for a CYT show.
Fantastic! As a former “pro” and having worked with some pretty well known special effects guys - this is really, REALLY good!!! And that you are working with kids makes it even better!!!
That is such a cool concept for a class!! I wish my high school had something like this. Our tech crew is great but having a class like this would be amazing. So many people I know want to be engineers but there are no classes that allow them that outlet. This is too cool on every level!!
@@christinemeleg4535 Lol I'm well aware of how much it would cost, hence why my school didn't have it. I did a whole research paper on high school drama clubs and budgeting for musicals in my 2nd year of undergrad. I WISHED my high school had a class like that because it would have made our experience a lot better. I never said it was realistic for our school. It was a wish.
Am I the only one that listened to the girls in the background while the kid in the Snoopy shirt talked? "UGH LIKE WHY ARE YOU SITTING WITH US YOU CANT SIT WITH US" XD
I’m enraged. These are awesome. We literally. LITERALLY! Just closed our production of Mary Poppins yesterday. I’m so mad that UA-cam only just now decided to show me this video. We desperately could have used this information. I mean I think one of our prop makers saw this but man I wish our director (my dad) could have seen it. I’m literally crying right now. I’m sick. It’s Christmas in 2 days. The show is over. I’m so full of emotions right now
Fantastic ideas for production. you can put all the actors you want at it, but if the effects fall short, the illusion is lost. these are the important things. good work!
Thanks! I’m in film school and need to create an in camera effect for a one shot short film so I’m searching for easy ideas to try out. Talented bunch of kids. I’m glad I’m learning something from them.
When I saw Mary poppins In Edinburgh last year I was sitting on the top floor and you could see a persons hand inside the bag handing the items up to Mary haha 😂😂
This program is such a fantastic way of blending creative arts and STEM. There will always be an industry dedicated for this! I’m glad to see the future is in very good hands! Fantastic props 🤘
I do props and some limited sleight of hand effects for community theater from time to time. I'd like to think I'm clever, but this shows me that I have soooooo much to learn. Nice work!
The student involvement is awesome; I have tech direction to do on this show in April and this video has given me so many great ideas! Thank you so much for posting.
My daughter’s school recently finished doing Mary Poppins (my daughter directed) and it went very well. They had the licensing to fly the actors above the stage.
So cool especially that kids do a lot of it. I become an SFX guy because a producer for a TV Show called the Next Uri Geller asked me to perform after seeing some of my own created stage effects. But I declined so then they hired me as a consultant and SFX creator. And doing this work for a life show (whether it’s Theater or TV) is so much harder because you can’t “cut” or “reshoot”. The insane effects we designed and build in 6 days was even to myself mine blowing. And every week the requirements got more complex after the success of the previous week. One effect I had created was used in 3 different performances and just dressed up differently. The worst effect was (both in making it and performance) was 4 people witness a crime through a very quick set of random images (subliminal). And through hypnoses their get control in their mind to slow down the images. And the performer asks each person a question. Was it a man or woman, was the person black or white, was the victim a man or a woman what was the weapon a gun or a blunt object. And we literally had to find 64 outs! For all combinations. And we couldn’t find all the out for a woman. Women simply aren’t as ruthless killers as men. So I said: “you can ask it because intuition will say that the perp is man. I’d you don’t like to take that gamble you can say, I’ll make it easy on you the perp is obviously a man. Is it a black men or white men. And I guarantee you we instantly whittle it down to 16 white male perps because a white woman will not say on tv (even in 2009) it’s a black man. And funnily enough every rehearsal and the live show we ended up with the same out! I was actually following the flow chart and radio the time code to the director’s truck for the clip to be played when the video with the evidence was put in then vcr. And I had to ask a assistent producer to verify it because I couldn’t believe that 3 times in a row we got the exact same out 😆 Psychologically it makes sense - so in a sense true mentalism. But it was amazing to all of us. And what sold it even more, and threw it even our magician/mentalism colleague (who’s lived that tv show). Was that I hinted the performer that it was the same out. So he could say the name of the victim before that tape with the “evidence” was played.
As an alternative special effect for fire, consider what the Pirates of the Caribbean ride does: A fan blowing up on white sheets illuminated from below by orange and red lights.
Oh my gosh, I wish all school districts had classes like this and they could problem-solve requests from drama teachers all over the district (not just their own school). Imagine how that kind of learning to problem solve would help every school’s drama program as well!
Awesome! something similar I've done with classes like that is analyzing and recreating music videos. There's a lot of special and stage effects kids are interested in.
My idea for how to do the bag effect was to have a hole in the bag, or a slot that opens up, and have a hole in the table and underneath the table are items
Great job! Post more prop and backstage videos like this for upcoming shows. I work in the theatre industry and you would be surprised how many people watch these videos for inspiration and tips. Keep up the amazing work!
It would also work if there were a small uplift trap door on the stage floor, x marks the spot and set the bag over the spot. Trap door open, someone pushes a better hat stand up thru. A gold fish bowel etc
I always thought it was stupid that so many people loved the idea of living in the usa (given all the shit that goes down there)... But every time I see stuff like this, this incredible theater tradition that starts with such young kids and it's so vast... Everytime I wish I could have been a "theater geek" growing up, that it was a thing available to me.
The front layer is a piece of plexiglass with most of the painting on it, and a clear spot in the middle where the flowers go. The back piece is just a blank canvas, stretched out and not attached at the bottom. Sandwiched in between is the flowers, arranged to show through the clear area. To perform the effect, pull the flowers down out of the frame, revealing the blank canvas behind them.
Oh man that little table with the bag is literally another effect I did for The Next Uri Geller. We had a chest with a trap door button and a table with a trapdoor table top. So allegedly someone’s wallet was stolen (that was a plant in the audience) and was in that chest. A celeb was selected by the mentalist brought into a trance and asked to mentally fly into the box into then wallet and tell how much money in bills there was. 20 he said He much money in coins 5 he said What bank the debit card was from. And the last name of that person. That table was tiny, we borrowed it from a Dutch illusionist. And this petit 19 year old girl could fit in. And we had a card printer in there, 500 euros in bills and change. And she would load the wallet, and push it through the table top through the chest’s collapsible button into the chest. When she did that we had a side effect as to also move the audiences eyes away from the obviously fair gap (the chest was on 1” feet). And there were 3 alleged pickpockets - I was one of them. And the celeb would feel the person and would then write down the number 1,2 or 3 which he thought was the perp. We had the same reveal with 3 outs on the video wall where we shut the guy being pickpocket whilst standing with the rest of the audience waiting for the studio doors to open. Obviously we went through that audience that night to create a memory of shady characters. But we actually shot the pickpocket even 3 days earlier when the German Uri Geller went out live from that same Dutch studio 🤣 That celeb was blown away! He just said I saw 20 euros, I saw 5 euros also in 2x2 euros and a single euro (luck or Mandela effect) and the name M de Boer popped in my mind! And it’s there! It’s all there! And in always thought this was fake! But the mentalist didn’t get near that chest! I got it out! I counted it! What?!?!
I love the way the students are so involved with the technical aspects and are learning through problem solving and doing. Way to teach!
Hands on learning is excellent but schools strapped for money do what they can. Should all finances go to just the "make-believe " classes?
@@christinemeleg4535 what? 1. the original comment never said that 2. this school is obviously somewhat wealthy. Schools with a tight budget already don’t spend that much money on the arts so I don’t know what you are advocating for with that comment. 3. are you really calling theatre just a “make believe” class? even after this amazing video? LOL
I wish I went to a school with this big of a theater department and this much money
Gabekarr this is actually a theatre company I participate in called CYT. This is specifically the Fredericksburg branch but there are many branches around the country. If your actually interested in this just look up CYT
Tyler Sanderlin Lol I do CYT too :D
I wish my school *had* a theater department.
YeaH most schools don’t care about theater
CYT is actually a theatre company all around the USA you could also participate CYT.org
This dude is teacher of the century for taking a problem solving approach to practical stage gags. Well done, sir.
He seems to be in the perfect job.
We need more teachers like him
Who are these genius children?!
These kids are learning PRACTICAL lessons:
Problem Solving = preparing young people for life.
Performing on Stage = building confidence and communication skills.
Castmates = learning to work with others.
So please-- Do NOT cut school arts budgets ʕ•́؈•̀ʔ
xjAlbert yes! I wish I would’ve gotten an education like this in school. I’m in film school now but getting some hands on experience working on a production would’ve set me up early on. I’m now watching this video for ideas for a short film I’m shooting that needs to be one shot lol.
Who are you addressing your complaint to? What have you done to actively support schools that are struggling to keep classes financed on a strict budget? What about students who are not interested in theater or performing arts, why are they allowed to be shortchanged? Perhpas those interested in science should just be shoved aside for a "make-believe."
Me- when I was in school we used cardboard boxes and empty loo rollsThem- THIS IS HOGWARTS!!!
Fantastic examples of STEM uses in the Arts! Bravo!
Apparently many places do S.T.E.A.M. to include Arts in the core.
I was in this! this was my first production ever with CYT, I remember being so amazed by the special effects! so fun to see all of my friends so little and baby faced...this special effects class made the show what it was, it turned out to have the highest amount of tickets sold ever for a CYT show.
Oh this is cyt! I do cyt too!
Thank you for sharing!!! Great ideas and I love how much the students were involved!!
I wish the theater company in my town had this much of a budget and smart minds.
Fantastic! As a former “pro” and having worked with some pretty well known special effects guys - this is really, REALLY good!!! And that you are working with kids makes it even better!!!
That is such a cool concept for a class!! I wish my high school had something like this. Our tech crew is great but having a class like this would be amazing. So many people I know want to be engineers but there are no classes that allow them that outlet. This is too cool on every level!!
How about looking into the cost such classes would require? That is hands on learning about the real world, it is called a budget.
@@christinemeleg4535 Lol I'm well aware of how much it would cost, hence why my school didn't have it. I did a whole research paper on high school drama clubs and budgeting for musicals in my 2nd year of undergrad. I WISHED my high school had a class like that because it would have made our experience a lot better. I never said it was realistic for our school. It was a wish.
Am I the only one that listened to the girls in the background while the kid in the Snoopy shirt talked? "UGH LIKE WHY ARE YOU SITTING WITH US YOU CANT SIT WITH US" XD
Bella Rose I WAS LISTENING INTO THEIR CONVERSATION TOO!!!! 😂😂😂
Bella Rose All those kids were so inconsiderate.
I’m enraged. These are awesome. We literally. LITERALLY! Just closed our production of Mary Poppins yesterday. I’m so mad that UA-cam only just now decided to show me this video. We desperately could have used this information. I mean I think one of our prop makers saw this but man I wish our director (my dad) could have seen it. I’m literally crying right now. I’m sick. It’s Christmas in 2 days. The show is over. I’m so full of emotions right now
Fantastic ideas for production. you can put all the actors you want at it, but if the effects fall short, the illusion is lost. these are the important things. good work!
I'm very impressed. Not just with the effects but also with having the kids involved in making them.
A nine year old saying words like nipotronium
I was a "techie" and wished I had had a teacher like this!! Keep it up.
Thanks! I’m in film school and need to create an in camera effect for a one shot short film so I’m searching for easy ideas to try out. Talented bunch of kids. I’m glad I’m learning something from them.
Oh lord the kids weren’t ready for the video 😂
Fantastic!! Love it. Great stuff you're teaching the kids!
As a theatre geek and teacher I LOVE the idea behind this program. So good!
the people singing the background sound so nice
The painting illusion is wonderful!
I’m a professional magician, and I’m taking notes from these amazing kids. Incredible.
When I saw Mary poppins In Edinburgh last year I was sitting on the top floor and you could see a persons hand inside the bag handing the items up to Mary haha 😂😂
This program is such a fantastic way of blending creative arts and STEM. There will always be an industry dedicated for this! I’m glad to see the future is in very good hands! Fantastic props 🤘
I do props and some limited sleight of hand effects for community theater from time to time. I'd like to think I'm clever, but this shows me that I have soooooo much to learn. Nice work!
The student involvement is awesome; I have tech direction to do on this show in April and this video has given me so many great ideas! Thank you so much for posting.
I spent 25 years as a professional stage technician and rigger...this man clearly has the future of his students as his primary goal. Well done!
All of these set pieces and props are incredible and so creative! This seriously takes skill to build these things, let alone think of them!
Bless this man's soul! Great work!
My daughter’s school recently finished doing Mary Poppins (my daughter directed) and it went very well. They had the licensing to fly the actors above the stage.
So cool especially that kids do a lot of it. I become an SFX guy because a producer for a TV Show called the Next Uri Geller asked me to perform after seeing some of my own created stage effects. But I declined so then they hired me as a consultant and SFX creator.
And doing this work for a life show (whether it’s Theater or TV) is so much harder because you can’t “cut” or “reshoot”. The insane effects we designed and build in 6 days was even to myself mine blowing.
And every week the requirements got more complex after the success of the previous week. One effect I had created was used in 3 different performances and just dressed up differently.
The worst effect was (both in making it and performance) was 4 people witness a crime through a very quick set of random images (subliminal). And through hypnoses their get control in their mind to slow down the images.
And the performer asks each person a question. Was it a man or woman, was the person black or white, was the victim a man or a woman what was the weapon a gun or a blunt object.
And we literally had to find 64 outs! For all combinations. And we couldn’t find all the out for a woman. Women simply aren’t as ruthless killers as men.
So I said: “you can ask it because intuition will say that the perp is man. I’d you don’t like to take that gamble you can say, I’ll make it easy on you the perp is obviously a man. Is it a black men or white men. And I guarantee you we instantly whittle it down to 16 white male perps because a white woman will not say on tv (even in 2009) it’s a black man.
And funnily enough every rehearsal and the live show we ended up with the same out! I was actually following the flow chart and radio the time code to the director’s truck for the clip to be played when the video with the evidence was put in then vcr. And I had to ask a assistent producer to verify it because I couldn’t believe that 3 times in a row we got the exact same out 😆
Psychologically it makes sense - so in a sense true mentalism. But it was amazing to all of us.
And what sold it even more, and threw it even our magician/mentalism colleague (who’s lived that tv show). Was that I hinted the performer that it was the same out. So he could say the name of the victim before that tape with the “evidence” was played.
Why is a 9 year old handling and being trusted with FIRE but a teenager is stuck doing a painting? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Andrew J Koehler A wild guess would be the younger kid is playing the part and needs to understand how it works in order to do it safely.
They are not working on it they are just explaining it
The teenager broke the painting but the fireplace is still working soooo....
@@11Argetlam11 the painting didn't break. the flowers just weren't put together during that period of time.
As an alternative special effect for fire, consider what the Pirates of the Caribbean ride does: A fan blowing up on white sheets illuminated from below by orange and red lights.
I live near an arcade with a game that has the same effect and I had to do a double take to make sure it wasn't real!
Oh my gosh, I wish all school districts had classes like this and they could problem-solve requests from drama teachers all over the district (not just their own school). Imagine how that kind of learning to problem solve would help every school’s drama program as well!
I'M MARY POPPINS YA'LL
Ricardo Saucedo YONDU!!!!
Ricardo Saucedo Yondu Poppins!
Too soon!!!!
Boo you stink
Ricardo Saucedo rip yondu
Is this a school production or something else?
Izzy XD
Izzy XD I believe it was a school production. But it could be a community theater.
I went to the show it's a school production
I z z y it's cyt, which stand for Christian youth theater. It community
wtfitzal httrrttdddfh
This is fabulous
My DI team loved it!!
I just finished the musical here in Dayton Washington it's such a bun play I was a part stroller and customer we did 14 shows
Umbrellas were cool! BTW, 9 volt batteries have 6 AAAA batteries. They are slightly smaller than an AAA battery. You can order them from Staples.
Great video! Very informative...Thank you!
These kids are so creative and amazing!
Awesome! something similar I've done with classes like that is analyzing and recreating music videos. There's a lot of special and stage effects kids are interested in.
My idea for how to do the bag effect was to have a hole in the bag, or a slot that opens up, and have a hole in the table and underneath the table are items
Thumbs up for using Lowe's!
Awesome video! Great to see the application of knowledge being used in this practical way!
Great job! Post more prop and backstage videos like this for upcoming shows. I work in the theatre industry and you would be surprised how many people watch these videos for inspiration and tips. Keep up the amazing work!
Dude ... you are so brilliant!
This is pretty brilliant. So clever.
This is brilliant. Great work!
This is SPECTACULAR!!!!
Not what I came for but it was amazing.
lol when the boom comes into frame XD
thats.... amazing
I googled the parrot-umbrella a couple of times, because I'm crafting it.
And now this was recommended. I did not mind.
This is real creativity.
What a brilliant way to teach STEM and theatre studies.
STEM to stage... I love it!
The boom mic that accidentally comes into frame at the beginning 😂😂
Where?
That flower trick is inspired magic
I saw this company perform!!
Amazing job!!
I've wondered this for years
FABULOUS!!!
Do you happen to have a video showcasing the lamp post with the fog switch effect?
This is so awesome! Nice job kids!
can we rent this?
Do you rent any of these props or backdrops
amazing
Aww this is so great
@mike lynch how did you make or get the telescoping pole for the hat rack?
.....:) As Good as the Paid Professionals, i think...!!!.....:)....🤩🤩🤩
This is amazing! 😃❤
These kids who are probably younger than me using these tenichal words I’m like here yeah Ik what you saying
It would also work if there were a small uplift trap door on the stage floor, x marks the spot and set the bag over the spot. Trap door open, someone pushes a better hat stand up thru. A gold fish bowel etc
love hearing the singing
Which production is this?
I loved stage craft in high school. Running shows and working BTS was great
why r these kids so smart?
can I have the Mary Poppins bag for a play
Can you go to RadioShack and get an antenna or something like that and attach to that?
"Can you go to RadioShack" not any more....
Wish i could see the full play
super video
wow great job guys
I always thought it was stupid that so many people loved the idea of living in the usa (given all the shit that goes down there)... But every time I see stuff like this, this incredible theater tradition that starts with such young kids and it's so vast... Everytime I wish I could have been a "theater geek" growing up, that it was a thing available to me.
is this from the chrysler theater? my musc teacher Mrs. Roberts was mary
It's a school production with students
LOL My play of Mary Poppins is on Tuesday and Wednesday ( school play ) and I'm Mary Poppins but they dont have any special effects
Can you give me the backing track please? I really need it
how does the painting work exactly? i'm still a bit confused
The front layer is a piece of plexiglass with most of the painting on it, and a clear spot in the middle where the flowers go. The back piece is just a blank canvas, stretched out and not attached at the bottom. Sandwiched in between is the flowers, arranged to show through the clear area. To perform the effect, pull the flowers down out of the frame, revealing the blank canvas behind them.
At 11:42 you can see the trick from the audience
These kids are so fuckin smart what even
Oh man that little table with the bag is literally another effect I did for The Next Uri Geller.
We had a chest with a trap door button and a table with a trapdoor table top.
So allegedly someone’s wallet was stolen (that was a plant in the audience) and was in that chest. A celeb was selected by the mentalist brought into a trance and asked to mentally fly into the box into then wallet and tell how much money in bills there was.
20 he said
He much money in coins 5 he said
What bank the debit card was from.
And the last name of that person.
That table was tiny, we borrowed it from a Dutch illusionist. And this petit 19 year old girl could fit in. And we had a card printer in there, 500 euros in bills and change. And she would load the wallet, and push it through the table top through the chest’s collapsible button into the chest.
When she did that we had a side effect as to also move the audiences eyes away from the obviously fair gap (the chest was on 1” feet). And there were 3 alleged pickpockets - I was one of them. And the celeb would feel the person and would then write down the number 1,2 or 3 which he thought was the perp.
We had the same reveal with 3 outs on the video wall where we shut the guy being pickpocket whilst standing with the rest of the audience waiting for the studio doors to open.
Obviously we went through that audience that night to create a memory of shady characters.
But we actually shot the pickpocket even 3 days earlier when the German Uri Geller went out live from that same Dutch studio 🤣
That celeb was blown away! He just said I saw 20 euros, I saw 5 euros also in 2x2 euros and a single euro (luck or Mandela effect) and the name M de Boer popped in my mind! And it’s there! It’s all there! And in always thought this was fake! But the mentalist didn’t get near that chest! I got it out! I counted it! What?!?!
Such fun!
Are those star people wearing wheelies?!
You have a special effect with your microphone on the top of the screen...
Ayyy another Desmond!