len said:
that's not a hard and fast rule.
There's no hard and fast rule for hard or soft edges
On our spot, there is a focus knob, so if I ant the edges blurred, I just move that al ittle
bit. Usually, I try to keep it hard. But, sometimes I'll use the spot like another bright light to add another color if I really need one--case in
point, today was Youth
Sunday, and for a drama, instead of going up in the lift and changing out a few lamps to a different
gel, partly because I didn't have the time and partly because I didn't have the gels, I just grabbed our
followspot from next door and slipped a red
gel in that, and had them dim the
truss lights (like, all the
stage lights....pars,
leko's and fresnels) a little
bit. Worked well.
Once upon a time I did slip in a diffusor to see what it would do, but it turned out that we have 8 and 6 inch frames for our
Par 64's, and fresnels/
leko's. The frame for the spot must be more like 5 or 4 inches. I didn't have a frame to fit, and no
gel either, and I wasn't willign to sacrifice my one single diffusion
gel.