<div dir="ltr">We always use shop built wooden prop guns. Slapping a hardwood slat to the stage floor makes a very effective gun sound, with all the overtones not possible with a recorded effect. If you want more realism you can download and print a photograph/illustration/technical drawing and apply it to a plywood cutout, amazingly effective.<div><br></div><div>This is why I think these solutions are effective.</div><div><br></div><div>1. real guns, even realistic replicas, upstage everything else you are doing onstage, which is usually actually some sort of an abstraction</div><div><br></div><div>2. the upstaging can border on high anxiety for many members of the audience</div><div><br></div><div>3. real guns don't really sound like what people imagine guns sound like (I thought it was firecrackers going off)</div><div><br></div><div>4. real weapons do not usually match the concept for the rest of the design</div><div><br></div><div>5. oh....and they can hurt people bad<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>Kim Hartshorn</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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