Aside from the giant Fao-Schwarz piano in "Big" and the flamethrower guitar in "Mad Max: Fury Road," the ultimate movie instrument to play has to be the giant light board at the end of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Forget being ushered aboard the mothership by cute aliens. A true musician would stay behind and put on a concert after everyone left. In actuality, the massive prop built for the movie was a real playable instrument. According to Michael Klastorin's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Ultimate Visual History" from Harper Collins, production designer Jon Alves ("Jaws") had a concept for the large-scale device that was "rooted in musical theory."
The western musical scale consists of 12 tones (as opposed to the Persian 22-tone scale), and Alves created a color panel system that would line up with each note. The size of the light board had...
The western musical scale consists of 12 tones (as opposed to the Persian 22-tone scale), and Alves created a color panel system that would line up with each note. The size of the light board had...
- 10/17/2022
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
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