Hey, I thought we could share pictures of our shows...

[icewolf08]

This year we are starting to do little promo videos for our shows, I got to make one for Noises Off!, so here it is.

And since I can't figure out how to embed the video, here is a link: IceWolf Photography - Photos by: Alex Weisman- powered by SmugMug

Photos to come next week.

 

[soundlight]

Pictures from our production of Twelfth Night. I was Assistant Lighting Designer, and drafted the plot in MacLux Pro as well as programmed and patched the show. The faculty LD was the designer, and picked most of the colors and gobos and what kind of angles to get. I applied that to the plot as I saw fit, with some revisions from the LD. Reverse show order (as our photo calls almost always are), so highest number is the first shot. They're in the right order in the thumbnails, though. I took all of the pictures with my Kodak Z612 point and shoot during photo call. If only I had the money for a real camera, or if only the library had DSLRs to check out. They have XL1s and GL2s for the video folks, why can't they get some midrange DSLRs?

EDIT: Sorry for the high res shots, I didn't realize that they'd take so long to view. I'll probably re-upload later this week.

 

[avkid]

The space looks tiny, how many seats?

 

[icewolf08]

While I said this to Charc outside of CB, I thought that I should post these comments for the edification of others. If you are a lighting person looking to build a portfolio for lighting then it is important to have photos that show the lighting. So, in addition to some of these close ups, you also want to have wide shots. Wide shots allow you to show the relative scale of the production, and how it is lit. Sometimes you can show lighting in a close up shot based on how it plays on the actor, but setting the scene with a wide shot helps.

One other comment that I made was, if possible I try to keep lights that point towards the camera out of the frame. It looks cleaner. This does not mean that you shouldn't have fixtures in the frame, but often if they are pointing at the camera you can end up with undesirable lens flare.

 

[willbb123]

I guess I'll show some of my pics.

Shane and Shane Rock Concert.
The midstage drop was in for this show, which blocks my third electric. I had some time before the show and moved the 4 color scrollers from the 3rd electric to the second, So I had 8 color scrollers on the second electric.

Jason Reeves Concert
Yes those are real trees on stage, the band wanted them.

Alley Cabaret
We have these shows called Alley Cabaret. They start at midnight and go for a few hours. It is entirely on stage, the actors are in the stage left wing, and the audience is all on stage. It is really hard to light off stage...

School House Rock
I didnt have alot of time do do everything I wanted to do with this show. But I think that it turned out pretty well.

Please comment and tell me what you think of the lighting.

 

[dafunkmonster]

This is a concert we did the production for a few weeks ago. Our student radio station, KMNR, hosted the concert.

I can't take credit for the lighting since I was on sound that night, but I figured I'd post some of the better shots. Most of these were taken right after soundcheck before doors, we were looking to compile some interesting shots for advertising and promotional purposes.

Freaker's Ball in Rolla

We had 4 Roboscans, 8 LED cans (36x1watt leds each), 6 parnels for frontlight, 2 parnels as ghetto crowdblinders, and 4 unknown ellipsoidals/cans lighting up our "fog cyc", and one atomic 3k (on half). This is pretty much our entire inventory as far as lights go, unfortunately.

Criticism welcome.

 

[icewolf08]

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

Here is the next installment of photos from my theatre. This is our production of "Noises Off!" As always, please visit my website to see more. Comments and questions are always welcome.

Act 3

Act 1

Act 2

 

[koimystic]

Here are a few pictures I had a friend take during 5 minutes of a christmas concert. the pictures don't really show much, but me and 2 friends did everything lighting and decoration wise on the stage. The band brought a sound tech. Everything was controlled from and ETC Ion except the christmas trees were controlled by a NSI board and three NSI dimmer packs. Also two scanners were used during the play that you can't see. I wish more pictures were taken other than during that song so you could see more of it. I also was able to influence the fine art director to get a hazer to add just a tiny bit of haze.

 

[lieperjp]

Finally! I get to post some pictures! I'm kinda upset they did the photo call a week earlier than usual, so there are some things in here that aren't finished, including the border that covers the R40's in front of the scrim.

Also, I didn't get any pictures of my best scene, which had a semi-realistic sunset!!!

I was also disappointed when the photographer (an amateur) was using her flash, so in some of the scenes the "artistic" shadows don't show up.

Please critique, I'm always looking to improve.

Edit: Also, during the real show, you would not have been able to see all the junk behind the scrim.

 

[theatre4jc]

Here are a few pictures from some of my past shows. I'll start with my college stuff and go from there.

From Suburbia where I was the ATD but basically did the work of the TD to prepare me for my next show.

The next 2 were from Rocky Horror, my senior project, where I was the TD.

The rest are concert lighting. Also the group I've been touring with the past 6 years uses a lot of concert lighting in the theatrical production.

For any more pictures check out my website www.davidlong.biz.

 

[maccalder]

Here are a few from the ice shows on Independence of the Seas (Royal Caribbeans newest ship). The photos from the first show (Freeze Frame) have the upper row of the plasma display missing (we had a plasma fail just before the photo shoot - isn't it always the way). The show features 10 ice skaters, we use a completely martin rig as far as movers go - 14 Mac550's, 18 Mac 600's, 14 Mac250 Wash, 8 Mac250 Spots, 10 Atomic300 strobes, 8 Nocturn UV Cannons with dousers, ETC Sensor+ dimmers and a whole bunch of S4 profiles and pars, lots of Wybron Colram IT scrollers all plugged into infogate, 2 Axon Media Servers with 2 Christy projectors. Control is a WholeHogIII with 2 DPII's, using ETCNet for DMX distribution.

Click to enlarge and all that...










Unfortunately, the pictures are not brilliant, and many of the atmospherics and projections do not show up too well...

(More images at this address and this one and for some snaps of the tech facilities aboard the ship here they are)

 

[clbarker]

Here are some pictures from my most recent production, The Glass Menagerie:

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie - 2

Produced by: Glass Theatre
Direction: J.D. Stallings
Scenic Design: J.D. Stallings
Costume Design: Caroline Springer
Lighting Design: Chris Barker
Projection Design: Ben Soldate
Sound Design: Andrew Mudie

 

[ReiRei]

These are from Company of Wayward Saints, our school's 15th anniversary show.

This was one of my favorite scenes because of the shadow. It was cast by putting a 2k fresnel behind the set.

This was the Caesar scene where his wife is all like, EEK YOU'RE GONNA DIE! And then she gets distracted by... something else... Anyways, there are two fresnels in the trap to simulate that whole water effect. I felt a little sorry for the actors.

The lights were a pain in the neck. Having no extra lamps and at least nine lights out wasn't helpful. We didn't have enough diffusion. And we had an asst. stage manager who didn't know how to properly run the light board. Thus killing about three more lights. And I'm a little sad that our photographer didn't get pictures of music scenes. Or pictures of the death scene. That was by far the best scene.

However, this was my last show at my high school and it was an amazing one at that. I'm glad to have had the experience. It's also my senior project, so it was especially cool.

 

[Sony]

Just got done designing The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort at my college. Unfortunately I don't think the pictures are the best I've ever taken...it was difficult because the play was so dark in the first place that it was hard to get good pictures. They just seem very noisy and fuzzy to me, maybe I'm not doing something right but I'm using a Nikon D80 with a Nikon DX 18-135mm Lens.

Please keep in mind when viewing these pictures that this play is supposed to be very dark. a) It takes place at night b) the subject matter is very dark and c) we have a very small theatre where you don't need much light to see peoples faces. That said, any constructive critisism is very welcome! I love hearing what people think of my work and ways I could improve.

Attached is a PDF files containing the Plot and Instrument Schedule as well as Colors and Circuits

 

[Pie4Weebl]

Nice, but where are channel numbers on your light plot?

 

[Sony]

Nice, but where are channel numbers on your light plot?

We use a 1-to-1 patch at my college so those numbers are both Dimmer and Channel. When I go to write cues I compile everything I want into submasters. If I ever move to a bigger Venue I will definitely add Channel and Focus in there too.

 

[sparky_vision]

Hmm, concert LDs, too? I'm not really smart enough to do theater lighting.

Well, then here's a rodeo that we played in New Mexico, one of my favorite shows of the year. Because when you put VL3000s and HES Studio Colors together, the effect is magical. And of course there's Casino Rama, aka the gig of dreams.

 

[clbarker]

Hmm, concert LDs, too? I'm not really smart enough to do theater lighting.

Well, then here's a rodeo that we played in New Mexico, one of my favorite shows of the year. Because when you put VL3000s and HES Studio Colors together, the effect is magical.

Wow! I love your color choices! Looks great.

 

[Sony]

Nice, but where are channel numbers on your light plot?

I just realized I uploaded the wrong draft of my plot...I have one with Dimmer/Channel numbers on it. Sorry, my fault...it's on my laptop so I can't get it right this second but I'll get and upload it soon.

 

[Yellow_Fuzzy]

Some pics from an Oktoberfest show I did this year.
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