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Originally Posted by LightingMinion
We might have a god light on Eugene each time he speaks to the audience. Do you think the best solution would be to rent moving lights for this??
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You planning on following him around? If so, if you have the budget to pay a spot op spend it on that instead of renting a moving fixture. Writing the cues to follow somebody around with a moving light is a lot of work and what you get for your trouble is something that looks blatantly mechanical, really inorganic. You have to work out in tech the actor's timing down to the 10th of a second and the SM has to nail it every time. The actor can never diverge from this timing and blocking even a little so it forces the actor to move with the light like a marionette. Moving the actor along a curve is a huge PITA. And, even then, to keep the actor in light you have to make the focus wide enough to give them some margin for error and then you have spill all over the place. Not that it can't be done, I do it fairly frequently but I generally hate the way it looks and I'd really rather just have a human on a light. (I also wish we could always afford a band and never use tracks, but that's another story with the same ending).
If you're looking to have a single unit that serves as multiple stationary specials, that's different. Depending on your set design a single mover might be fine. Actually, for this purpose, what I'd suggest is a
Rosco iCue, a moving mirror head that goes on a Src-4. I have 6 of these, they're my only movers and I love them. They have their limitations and they're not "feature laden" like other wiggle-lights; they're a one trick pony but they do that trick extremely well and the price is right.
They cost about $600 each, you could probably be well on the way to owning one for the cost of renting a moving fixture for a couple weeks. You need
DMX and a
scroller power supply.