This is all great advice, Unfortunately this is a director without any sort of
vision. He is the kind who tries things and decides halfway through a run to change anything.
@NevilleLighting, I would absolutely agree with you about using an amazing
rendering of the hundred acre wood on the
cyc, its just my
FOH limits me to just 20 fixtures consisting of 10-15 year old
colortran units ranging from 20*-50*, and with a budget of 0.00, I'm unable to rent anything remotely useable let alone buy
gel or
gobo's. There is talk here about certain facilities manager (which in this case is also the director) who figures once you buy lights you shouldn't have to put anymore than $10 a year into the budget. So after his first show which he decides he wants to put tons of R12 into the budget is used up.
The
house is set-up like a standard
auditorium with a large open space with a balcony(with
rail, also un-usable, I already asked). The
house are just standard round
par lamp holders that
spill light everywhere. and it being on the 1st is putting it right behind the
fire curtain, literally. so it will
wash everything out in front. fortunately he likes his sets too much and it will be used as just an
act curtain. My issues with trying to convince him is he has pushed me so far into a corner with my designs the most i'm goign to be able to do as far as any design work is
throw two lights on the mezzanines located SL + SR and
throw some texture on the floor (all in
house gobo's which the only two matching were 2 leaf breakups).
I'd have to say that I've done more design work just talking with my LD at college about his designs than I will with this show.
With all that said the script I won't get until about 3 weeks away from doors open. And its likely to change since he is making the script up with the students. I have so far just a few absolutes which still have tons of variables that are going to change.
1. He is not going to use the main red
traveler for the
act curtain.
2. Winnie the pooh is going to be in a tree.
3. I have no budget.
I'm honestly thinking about telling him that I can't do a design with this much constraint. He has in the past tried to do everything on his own and is still in that habit I just hope that on thursday when i talk with him about the production. I'll be able to at least convince him to use something else than the
cyc and put the
cyc back where it should be so i can use
cyc lights.
P.S. I will get pictures of the space up ASAP, it will show much better than I can describe.