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Posted on 25/02/14 5:00:43 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Love it Bruce! One of my favourite Bugs Bunny cartoons. _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 25/02/14 9:32:48 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
"What's Opera, Doc?" is truly a classic. I laughed out loud watching it again. _________________ I aim to give pause. |
Posted on 26/02/14 08:40:52 AM |
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Linda Eckert
maîtresse marocaine Posts: 148 Reply |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
second version: sorry, I forgot at the first to darken the right side.  |
Posted on 26/02/14 5:15:49 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply  |
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Posted on 27/02/14 12:58:18 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3063 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Silent Musical?  |
Posted on 27/02/14 3:55:59 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
James that is so scary! Rather a late rush job from me this week  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 27/02/14 8:20:41 PM |
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Ben Mills
Luminous Luminary Posts: 570 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
A bit of culture never hurt nobody. init  |
Posted on 28/02/14 08:22:37 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Some very fine entries this week, even though a few of you opted to put Swan Lake on the stage. While I enjoy the occasional opera, I have a strong dislike for ballet. The last one I saw was Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, and I remember thinking: what sort of mind takes a Shakespeare play and decides the one thing you can really do without is the words? First to dim the lights was Nick Curtain, with a very convincing view: a great shot of the stage, and a conductor on his platform. I think he may be a little big, given his distance in the scene: look at the size of the flautists near him. I don't recognise the scene - but I think I have an iPhone app that's more or less the same... A nicely dimmed orchestra pit from Kathryn, but a slightly odd choice of stage event. Apart from the fact that it's Swan Lake, if the conductor's up there taking a bow then the orchestra really should have stopped playing! Swan Lake again, from Garfield72. I like the way the curtain has been opened, and the spotlights are a nice touch: but I think the orchestra pit may now be too dark for them to read their scores. The second entry is better, with a curtain both sides: but it's Swan Lake again! High drama from Ant Snell, with a powerful scene on the stage. Now I know opera singers have a reputation for being somewhat on the chubby side, but you can't just squeeze them vertically to make the perspective work! And if you're going to show a circular spotlight over the figures, it does need to curve over their contours. I like the sense of distance from Claudio_F, and the loneliness of the two figures on the stage. But have the set designers taken the day off? I'd like to see some sort of background in there! Roman hordes take over Covent Garden in michael sinclair's typically off-topic entry. It's hard to assess since there's so much going on, but your perspective on the opened curtain is wrong: it should be sloping down, not up, to match the angle set by the original. I enjoyed brewell's take on opera - with Bugs Bunny both on the stage and conducting the orchestra. Great expressions and choice of characters! Just one thing: is the backdrop a little too far forward? That's the indication from the nearness of the shadow on the right. A splendidly dramatic scene on stage from joeysala, with a conductor neatly dropped into the orchestra pit. I'd have pulled the curtains open a little more for the full wide-screen effect, and perhaps dimmed the house lights - all that gold is somewhat distracting. A clever and funny entry from srawland, with animal heads on the performers - and a neatly inserted conductor in the pit. You'll soon realise that nothing is sacrosanct on this forum, Sara! A strong and entertaining entry - although I'd have darkened the gold on the right to bring the house lights down. An extraordinary scene from Frank, with dry ice swirling around a very realistic-looking set. The shadow behind Don Giovanni is a little hard, and makes both him the bush behind him look rather flat. But I think you're the first to put musical scores on those stands - well spotted! I don't recognise the opera in tissana's entry, but judging from the costumes and flags it's a Thai classic. A very good choice of angle on the stage, and I like the fact that you've included music scores - although they are a little over-sized. Good to see you back. A great operatic scene from Linda Eckert, and it's good that you've included the musical scores ("partitions" is something else in English). From that position, though, you can't see the floor of the stage - as you'd know if you sat there! the second entry does work much better, though, and the ornate gold is now much less distracting. I was wondering how James would get a moving animal in there... but I never expected a giant insect to fly out of the stage! Now that would certainly liven up an opera. What's the flash in the orchestra pit at the beginning? And why doesn't it affect the conductor? A remarkably clever reinterpretation from Mariner - not least because the scene on the stage is from exactly the production I saw. And there are all the characters once again in the orchestra pit! Brilliant! A Marx Brothers reference from Josephine Harvatt: A Night at the Opera, eh? I like the contrast of the chorus line on the stage, and there's even Chico at the piano. Very clever. An appropriately operatic scene from Ben Mills, certainly. But - those people are huge! Compare them with the horn players directly beneath them. And why is the whole stage leaning back like that? Look at your sloping verticals, compared to the verticals of the room as defined by the curtains. |
Posted on 28/02/14 08:46:39 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Thanks Steve I struggled to find a decent stage image and this was the best I could locate. As for the conductor, I deliberated for some time about the size and took a view based on the cellist, the flautists and the stage characters. He still looked too tall, but he is standing on a podium. A very enjoyable challenge. |
Posted on 28/02/14 09:48:53 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Thank you - but did you spot Harpo in the orchestra pit - also on the piano?  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 28/02/14 11:13:01 AM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Excellent! I widened the shadow and the backdrop magically dropped back. _________________ I aim to give pause. |
Posted on 28/02/14 12:48:39 PM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Missed him! Is Zeppo hiding in there somewhere? |
Posted on 02/03/14 12:05:09 PM |
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Frank
Eager Beaver Posts: 1750 Reply  |
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Thanks Steve, I had softened that shadow but not enough I guess. |
Posted on 02/03/14 12:49:31 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
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Sadly no - Karl neither _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 03/03/14 12:35:16 PM |
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james
Surreal Spoofer Posts: 1194 Reply |
Re: Challenge 493: A night at the opera
Steve, apologies offered, this is a second post, can't imagine where the first effort went. The flash at the beginning is the theater with lights on, the timing is wrong, the conductor needs to be merged with the background. Woe is me, James. |
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