Recent content by manu

oh, and I'm planning on keeping the tradition going here too, been drinking lots of cokes lately... 8O thanks again for everybody's input. manu

thanks Katie and Soundman for your help... Soundman, I used the term cutter without really thinking about it - it wasn't a very precise choice on my part as it means a variety of office cutting tools - what I had in mind was a retractable cutter, just like a knife, except with a long razor blade...

Soundman, are you saying use a pin or sharp knife versus a cutter? Is it because the cutter cuts too thinly?

thanks for the reply, if you can remember, how intricately desinged are they?

There was a mention on the web of gobos made out of coke cans, anybody witnessed this first hand? I need to make a custom perspective design to shine on the floor, and using soft aluminium would allow me to make it myself (I lack machine tools). I'd imagine using a 500w wouldn't melt the...

Thanks all! Very informative. Two Fresnels from above and providing a little juice to the actual lamp (I like that realistic effect) along with scenery and acting area lighting should do the trick. And yes, Ship, I'll have to do some hands on experimentation, bug you guys are pointing me in...

Hi, we're going to be using a table lamp in our play and I'd like to get some ideas from people who've used such prop in the past. This lamp will be centrally located and should give the illusion of lighting up a circle around center stage, leaving the rest in the dark. The trick is that...

Re: sleight of light to transform living room into cathedralThanks all! For your great input! I'll post whatever devices we end up using when we draw the lighting plans up. thanks again! manuel

Re: sleight of light to transform living room into cathedralThanks for the great tips! Ship, you are absolutely correct, I should've given way more details in my original post... Well, here goes, it is Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs. The stage walls have 11 imagined doors all around center...

Hi lighting gurus, How can a make a living room scene, slowly transform itself into a large cathedral like space? I'm trying to do this just with lights as the decor is sparse and needs to stay that way. So far I'm thinking warm light flushing the stage including the three surrounding...