lightman02
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Beyonce will be preforming on the Today Show this morning. There is at least 12 Showpix setup for the performance, check it out!!
I was bothered by the fact that the fixtures served no other purpose except as "eye candy" and actually distracted from the performers. The stage was lit perfectly for TV--not a single shadow in sight with probably twenty or more 6K HMI Fresnels out of camera range. The ShowPix were used as annoying scenery rather than useful illumination units. I know I'm old-fashioned and out-of-touch, but I don't recall the likes of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, or Lena Zavaroni needing such frivolities, but then again, they had talent and could actually sing....Second I felt the animations were overused, the whole show seemed to just scroll the animations never any full color washes really. ...
To the question of where the fixtures came from, they were not rented from PRG, instead came from Main Light, which as far as I know, only has its office Wilmington. Which means someone went out of their way to get this many fixtures. Its all about eye candy my friends -- day time show in the middle of NYC, no fixtures will be able to give you any kind of drama or good aesthetic that could compete with the daylight without blowing out the HD cameras -- the best they can do is use something that spins around and looks cool to make us feel like we're at a concert. ND used on the fixtures because the threshold of the cameras can't deal with the brightness and harshness of the LEDs, even then ran at a considerably low level.
Info from posts on the LN by High End folks.
So just out of curiocity, do these have any type of built in mosture barier, or were they basically taking a normal indoor fixture and hoping the rain didn't short it out before the show was over? And are these a tpe that they would have bben able to dry them off and get them back up in a couple of hours, or that would ahve required major work had the rain gotten in them.Yes, they were using the Showguns all the time and recently switched to the show and studio pix. You will most likely be seeing them for every NBC concert. American Rejects performed on Tuesday and Beyonce was today however there was a couple things about the rig I didn't like. One they had show pix on road cases all along the red carpet Beyonce made her entrance on, the part I didnt like is that the road case with the light on top of it were right in with the crowd with no barrier around them at all. You could see people hanging over then and I'm sure people got hit in the arms and possibly heads when the light moved without warning. Second I felt the animations were overused, the whole show seemed to just scroll the animations never any full color washes really. As far as the American Rejects with the rain, you are correct the back lights on the stands were in the rain but I guess cause they were mounted with bases up and head down then took their chances. They do cover them before the performance to help, but yes it is risky, I saw the same thing with the showguns and it was raining even harder.
So just out of curiocity, do these have any type of built in mosture barier, or were they basically taking a normal indoor fixture and hoping the rain didn't short it out before the show was over? And are these a tpe that they would have bben able to dry them off and get them back up in a couple of hours, or that would ahve required major work had the rain gotten in them.
To the question of where the fixtures came from, they were not rented from PRG, instead came from Main Light, which as far as I know, only has its office Wilmington. Which means someone went out of their way to get this many fixtures. Its all about eye candy my friends -- day time show in the middle of NYC, no fixtures will be able to give you any kind of drama or good aesthetic that could compete with the daylight without blowing out the HD cameras -- the best they can do is use something that spins around and looks cool to make us feel like we're at a concert. ND used on the fixtures because the threshold of the cameras can't deal with the brightness and harshness of the LEDs, even then ran at a considerably low level.
Info from posts on the LN by High End folks.
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