An overview of the winged props and performers from the Ceremony, including the Toy Duck, with Al Martinez (Props Construction Manager) and Dan Potra (Production Designer).

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This is Stella and Stella’s a toy duck, she’s probably the hero of the show. So this is a prototype we’ve made but when Stella gets excited, all of a sudden she just starts to do this transformation, and the very first part of her transformation is this. The flock of birds that actually gets Stella excited, this is the prop that the performers wear. There’s going to be twenty of these that actually come by and get Stella excited.

I kind of suggested for the wing to be a transparent wing, if you like, so actually we still see the human nature of the character inside, but as well they are being wrapped into this semi transparent wing. It’s very diaphanous and very light, so, its designed for light there is a backlight that can really make a glow and front light as she goes up, you can see her body as well.

We found that when the performer is moving along the ground and pulling this up and down it looks very graceful and twenty of them is probably going to look very much like a flock of birds.