Recent content by Sean Shameless

That makes sense. I hadn’t considered that rigging specifics would be dodgy here. Our setup is pretty simple and standard. We’ve got a 40’ pipe that will be in a pocket at the bottom of the Austrian with 5 ropes going up to pulleys at our catwalk rederiecting upstage of a drop with pulleys...

The 2 to 1 setup we have going is working quite well except for the last quarter of the pull or so and then the person who would normally be operating it is really struggling. I did some googling around and saw reference to “progressive” mechanical advantages. I posted a little video below. It...

Hey all, I don't get into much rigging but for the show were building we need to setup a block and tackle setup for an Austrian drop. Because the drop gathers and gets heavier as it ascends we'd ideally like to make a block and tackle setup that starts as a 2:1 but at a point progresses or...

Neat, good to know. I have some donuts around and have used them on a couple occasions but never played with different aperture sizes.

I brought a piece of scrim home and played around with some mini pars. Although conditions were less than ideal I noticed I can get the opaque effect by lighting from oblique angles on either the upstage or downstage side. I also saw some neat color mixing when I did both at once. I'm...

I'm just concerned that once I get my cyc lights on a steep enough angle to be effective that they will then be spilling quite a bit in front of, or behind the scrim itself. I'm worried that I'll ending spilling more upstage then is ideal and in the process lighting the specific area I'm trying...

Yeah, one thing I insisted in was space for booms in the wings. I'm going to be leaning hard on side lighting. Luckily the upstage area is going to be slightly elevated which will help in that regard.

Yeah, I'll have to punch it pretty hard to get colors to pop.

That might have been a good option but unfortunately with this show using up floor space in that area would be a big compromise for the director.Thanks for the suggestion though.dir

Hello, I'm a venue tech that has the opportunity to do my second lighting design in The theatre space I work at. The set designer and director have a concept for a set basically cut in half stage centre by a scrim with the goal of having everything upstage of the scrim disappear when unused...