Hello fellow technicians!
We're currently working on "The Tempest" at my high school. I'm the Technical Director here, so I usually get that role for most plays, including this one (like it or not)! Anyway, we're just beginning to build a proper theatre program, and an adequate inventory. Most of our luminaries are 7.5" Emerson fresnels that were donated to us from a local theatre. They're fantastic... Except we don't have a single barn door for any of them.
Seeing that it is Shakespeare, we set up the auditorium to look like a thrust stage, and it is causing all of the lights to hit the audience. What I'm looking for is a suggestion on how to build barn doors on a SUPER low budget, and without any major lighting retailers near us. I really want to just buy some black foil from LEE, but even that is creating havoc with my teachers.
Thank you very much!
Cheers,
MrMagLit
We're currently working on "The Tempest" at my high school. I'm the Technical Director here, so I usually get that role for most plays, including this one (like it or not)! Anyway, we're just beginning to build a proper theatre program, and an adequate inventory. Most of our luminaries are 7.5" Emerson fresnels that were donated to us from a local theatre. They're fantastic... Except we don't have a single barn door for any of them.
Seeing that it is Shakespeare, we set up the auditorium to look like a thrust stage, and it is causing all of the lights to hit the audience. What I'm looking for is a suggestion on how to build barn doors on a SUPER low budget, and without any major lighting retailers near us. I really want to just buy some black foil from LEE, but even that is creating havoc with my teachers.
Thank you very much!
Cheers,
MrMagLit