we would have to map out exactly where Eugene would be.
Generally the way this works is that you attend a run-through and take notes. At focus you rough focus the lights and put down spikes. This gets you within a
foot or two. In tech, if the director wants the actor to be off your
spike you move the
spike and take a note. After rehearsal you retouch the focus on any units that you moved the spikes for.
Easy for me to say, I have 6 iCues, and I use them to accomplish exactly what it sounds like you're trying to do. But that said, just because an actor is going to multiple spikes, that's not a compelling reason to use movers in and of itself. Part of why I have them is as a compromise, I'm working in 3/4 round and for a lot of moments, esp. in musicals, isolating down to one special leaves a lot of the audience seeing what amounts to sidelight. Start doing the math, you run out of instruments really fast. But that's a discussion for another thread.
And in the end, though I use the iCues I have as described, for really tight moments I very often end up hanging a special.
also to try to live up to the past LD's legacy I guess.Eh, its confusing....
Living up to a past LD's legacy isn't the
point. Showing off your facility isn't the
point. Telling the story is the
point. The BB's are memory plays, not fantasies - and for them, IMHO, simple goes a long way.
Being an LD does demand that you be proficient with various gear, but design really transcends the equipment. Just because you can
address the
DMX channels for and focus an
Intellabeam®, that doesn't make you a good designer. Makes you a good electrician, but not a good designer. Design is about the getting a show to look right.
Not trying to
throw cold water on your ideas and goals, not one little
bit. It's no skin off my nose how you get your show lit - and you're there, I'm not, how can I know what the best solution is, right? But since the topic was here, and since I'm putzing around waiting for this rental to get done with so I can get back to work on teching this show we're opening tomorrow.... Well, hope I'm at least providing a morsel of food for thought....