Hi everyone,
My school is doing the show Hello, Dolly! this year and I am one of the student lighting designers for the show. I have been thinking about the cues and have done a couple of "designs" (specifically for the overture...if you don't know the show, the overture is mostly up-beat and has a bunch of changing tempos). Well, at the end of the song, the music has very quick beats (each one comes less than a second from each other). What I want is for a light change to come every beat. There are 2 box booms in front of the proscenim and each has 6 source fours and color scrollers in them. I have designed it so that on the first beat theres a blue gel from the scrollers stage right and then on the second beat it has red coming from stage left. It then repeats this for a few more beats. The problem is, I know that the stage manager can't call the cues that quickly, so there has to be another way to do it. On an ETC Expression 2 console, is there a way to do that?
Also, for the rest of the overture, since the gels in the scrollers are not in the order that I want them to be (and I can't change them), I will need to alternate between two sets of lights. (So that one is on while the other is scrolling) (3 from each box boom) It would look like this (the x represents a light on...the - reprents the light off)
Group 1:
SR:
X -
- X
X-
SL:
-X
X-
-X
Group 2:
SR:
-X
X-
-X
SL:
X-
-X
X-
Does this make sense...and if so, is it do-able?
Thanks
My school is doing the show Hello, Dolly! this year and I am one of the student lighting designers for the show. I have been thinking about the cues and have done a couple of "designs" (specifically for the overture...if you don't know the show, the overture is mostly up-beat and has a bunch of changing tempos). Well, at the end of the song, the music has very quick beats (each one comes less than a second from each other). What I want is for a light change to come every beat. There are 2 box booms in front of the proscenim and each has 6 source fours and color scrollers in them. I have designed it so that on the first beat theres a blue gel from the scrollers stage right and then on the second beat it has red coming from stage left. It then repeats this for a few more beats. The problem is, I know that the stage manager can't call the cues that quickly, so there has to be another way to do it. On an ETC Expression 2 console, is there a way to do that?
Also, for the rest of the overture, since the gels in the scrollers are not in the order that I want them to be (and I can't change them), I will need to alternate between two sets of lights. (So that one is on while the other is scrolling) (3 from each box boom) It would look like this (the x represents a light on...the - reprents the light off)
Group 1:
SR:
X -
- X
X-
SL:
-X
X-
-X
Group 2:
SR:
-X
X-
-X
SL:
X-
-X
X-
Does this make sense...and if so, is it do-able?
Thanks