Recent content by indigoapropo

Of course the production comes first and he certainly trusts my judgment on that. I think, in the past, this particular director has been made fun of for his color blindness and as such he has a hard time communicating with lighting designers. What I'm looking for are some good talking points...

I will be working with a director in about a years time who is red/green color blind, and I'm looking for advice on how to communicate effectively with him. We've had some preliminary talks about it and obviously color is only one aspect of lighting but I'd like to give him the best experience...

We ended up contacting Vertigo, they gave us some great advice and we ended up scaling back. Thanks everyone.

I want to be clear that if it's not safe we are cutting it. I'm in Chicago, if you can recommend someone local I'll reach out to them.

Has anyone done a live hanging with an actor? We have a rig for the actor, but I'm concerned about the rope around the neck. I need something that will release if the rig fails, we've talked about velcro or a magnet.

I am researching for an upcoming dance show that would like to something a little bit different with Lights Sound and Projections. Lets see if I can adequately explain my goal with the three of them:First and for most I need a trigger mechanism for all three so ideally the SM running them...

Probably not 20ft. I'm looking for like 10 ft. Someone kicks it down, possible fire and smoke.

My theatre company is putting on a production of Jekyll and Hyde in October. One of the major elements we are trying to figure out how to engineer is at one point a door explodes out. We have been toying around with attaching some of the pieces to neoprene and using a strobe but if anyone has...