Rex Lupa Primus
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I’m a high schooler working on a MS production of Once On This Island. There’s a storm/flood scene and I’m looking into water lighting effects. I have enough blue PARs to wash the stage and I’ll fluctuate their intensity to create general mayhem with the occasional flash of white light to accompany a thunder SFX. I want to throw a watery light over the entire stage to add to the setting. The ideal would be to rent a professional effects machine like the Chauvete Abyss USB, but that’s way out of the budget (the budget = 16 year old me). The same thing goes with renting/buying a gobo and rotator.
I’ve read about the “reflecting moving water in pan” idea in other threads, but with a horde of middle schoolers running around the space for a week, I’m not sure I want to use such a delicate set up and I don't have the resources or skills necessary to rig it above the stage. I’ve looked into cheap LED projectors used for decorating rooms, but at 8-9W I doubt one will be able to fill the entire stage or scrim.
We have two follow spots in the back of the house, and I’m thinking of having some kids move/rotate several layers of crumpled gel in front of those to get an effect similar to the gobo/rotator setup. I'll be able to test this idea in a day or two depending on when a snow storm lets up.
I have 6 Altman Shakespeare Ellipsoidals, 12 PAR cans, and 5 sets of 3 CYC strip lights, plus the two manual follow spots. No DMX/intelligent or LED lighting. Any thoughts? Are there other options? Is there anything else I can do to add to this atmosphere?
I’ve read about the “reflecting moving water in pan” idea in other threads, but with a horde of middle schoolers running around the space for a week, I’m not sure I want to use such a delicate set up and I don't have the resources or skills necessary to rig it above the stage. I’ve looked into cheap LED projectors used for decorating rooms, but at 8-9W I doubt one will be able to fill the entire stage or scrim.
We have two follow spots in the back of the house, and I’m thinking of having some kids move/rotate several layers of crumpled gel in front of those to get an effect similar to the gobo/rotator setup. I'll be able to test this idea in a day or two depending on when a snow storm lets up.
I have 6 Altman Shakespeare Ellipsoidals, 12 PAR cans, and 5 sets of 3 CYC strip lights, plus the two manual follow spots. No DMX/intelligent or LED lighting. Any thoughts? Are there other options? Is there anything else I can do to add to this atmosphere?