Jordan Street
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I'm having an OCD situation and need advice on how to solve or overcome it. I'm using a rep plot that was designed by a well-known local designer and it has some pretty dense side lighting on the onstage electrics. It's not Broadway-level dense, but 90 instruments (five separate systems across five electrics, 18 instruments per electric) seems dense for a smaller proscenium theatre. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the flexibility, it's just creating an OCD headache because it's crowded and I don't like where I have the labels.
Using standard 18" centers with Source 4 instruments causes them to overlap at the lens tube and lamp base when their orientation is parallel to the pipe.
Using standard 18" centers with Source 4 instruments causes them to overlap at the lens tube and lamp base when their orientation is parallel to the pipe.
- Do you accurately plot side lights using 18" centers (or whatever the actual spacing is)?
- With side lighting on 18" centers, how do you arrange the dimmer/channel/color labels so that it a) reads clearly and b) doesn't look like garbage? Do you limit the information on the plot to dimmer and unit number and leave the channel, color and gobos for paperwork?