Re: Follow Spot
I'm going to agree with what everyone else has said; an automated "followspot" will quickly prove to be far more trouble than it's worth. You'll never get the performer to follow the same path every time or at the same speed, it will take you forever to program something which still won't look like a manual followspot and you'll constantly find you lose the performer's head, arm or feet out of the spot. We used a Mac250 as a followspot for a very short sequence in The Producers, which only worked because the actor in question was coming down a staircase so we could guarantee he'd follow the same path every night; even then it took my operator a lot of cue tweaking and time to get it looking right - I'd never recommend it to anyone.
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