marcusianl
Member
Hello everyone,
In preparation for my high school's production of Seussical, I'm trying to get our cyc lights, which have never been very cooperative, to blend properly. We have 7 of what I believe to be Altman 3-cell cyc lights, outfitted with red, green, and blue cyc silk, equally spaced along a ~45' batten above our 42'x25' stage.
Despite multiple arrangements of spacing and height, I can't seem to get the colors to go together nicely, and I usually end up with the middle half of the cyc the desired color, the top quarter broken up in to the component colors, and the bottom quarter unlit. I'm a student and have only been working with lighting about 9 months, so I'm not sure if I'm missing something big. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
-Marcus
P.S. My set designer would like to use a ground row and we have ground StagePins along the floor. It might be a stretch, but it would be nice to light the cyc from top and bottom to fill out that unlit area towards the bottom. Would this work with only 7 units?
In preparation for my high school's production of Seussical, I'm trying to get our cyc lights, which have never been very cooperative, to blend properly. We have 7 of what I believe to be Altman 3-cell cyc lights, outfitted with red, green, and blue cyc silk, equally spaced along a ~45' batten above our 42'x25' stage.
Despite multiple arrangements of spacing and height, I can't seem to get the colors to go together nicely, and I usually end up with the middle half of the cyc the desired color, the top quarter broken up in to the component colors, and the bottom quarter unlit. I'm a student and have only been working with lighting about 9 months, so I'm not sure if I'm missing something big. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
-Marcus
P.S. My set designer would like to use a ground row and we have ground StagePins along the floor. It might be a stretch, but it would be nice to light the cyc from top and bottom to fill out that unlit area towards the bottom. Would this work with only 7 units?