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Re: Second Bloom

That's a nice show, Ice Wolf. I'm sometimes wishing I had a nice wood floor to shine some gobos and color washes off. That one takes well, not too shiny and reflective yet still shows some depth. Was that part of the set or just the stage floor in that theatre?

But then again, there are advantages to matte(ish) black, too. It's nice to have things disappear sometimes.

The deck was built for the show. It is a rake and everything.
 
My name is Scott. I'm 14. Any Opinions are welcome? To light this is had 12 S4's 20 PAR64's, 3 movers, and some scrollers. Also I realize the blue wash is uneven, I have since fixed those cans.

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The North American Premier of Backborn, by Andras Visky. Directed by Stephanie Sandberg. Scenic Design by David Leugs, Costume Design by Amanda Ytzen, Lighting By Steve Hiben, Sound Design by David Schripsema and Julia Vander Molen. Produced by Calvin Theatre Company, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. Photography by Leighanne Evelyn Sturgis. Lighting by me.

This is my first ever fully realized design for theatre. Play is a very eastern european piece about a Nameless Man who has been released from the concentration camps, and now struggles to believe in life. He is prepared to end his own life, and comes into a ritual space, where the ritual of his life plays out before him. The play climaxes in total darkness (so no photos), and ends with God (or at least a divine being) rushing into the space in a burst of light. It was an incredibly difficult process, and we were changing things up until the show opened (thats pretty much how Eastern European theatre is done, everything is up for change until the show opens). After the photo shoot, we got my 2 favorite lighting moments from the show, which is a bit sad, but there are some great ones in the gallery.

Rig (at time of shooting) was 19 HUI cyc lights, 33 S4 50º, 3 S4 19º, 11 S4 36º, 3 S4 26º, 7 S4 70º, 24 6" Fresnelite, 4 L&E 6' MR-16 strips, 8 S4 PAR VNSP, 6 3" Fresnels, 4 PAR20s. Color from Apollo and Rosco. Gobos from Apollo and GAM.

Zenfolio | Leighanne Evelyn Photography | Backborn
http://www.leighanneevelyn.com/p507608147/h3faac67b#h257268f6
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Full gallery is available for viewing there as well. Feel free to comment/critique (in fact, I would like that).
 
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Very nice collection of photos shiben. Your friend Leighanne spent some time getting this gallery together- props to her! The depth within the scenes is wonderful, and the cast looked as though they appreciated your efforts.

Nice gallery- thank you for sharing it with us!
 
My name is Scott. I'm 14. Any Opinions are welcome? To light this is had 12 S4's 20 PAR64's, 3 movers, and some scrollers. Also I realize the blue wash is uneven, I have since fixed those cans.

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You're first drop says Peachtree Street. Are you in Atlanta? Kinda odd that London has a street name Peachtree in a production of Oliver! . Been to London several times and never found such street. Good looking set. Good Looking lights. Keep up the good work!
 
Tonight's show... Ben Folds... for some reason my camera stopped doing the exposure bracketing mid show.... fun show though, for the first time in my life an audience member came up to me after and told me how amazing my lighting was :oops:

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Hey all,
These are some pics from a recent show. I just shot some of the set-ups. I was pretty happy with the combination of projection (which can fight with the lights), and our limited lighting instruments. I also use Modul8 to run the projections. I am really impressed with the control you have over the visuals with this software, as far as combining and multiplying images for the fire and for the marching projection.
Thanks,
Tim
 
That's a nice looking show, shiben. What did you use to light the back wall with the brown and the floor with the purple? Very nice isolation on your set, floor, and acting areas. And I LOVE your use of gobos, especially the text-like open ones used in the first few photos in the gallery. It's a beautiful production.
 
That's a nice looking show, shiben. What did you use to light the back wall with the brown and the floor with the purple? Very nice isolation on your set, floor, and acting areas. And I LOVE your use of gobos, especially the text-like open ones used in the first few photos in the gallery. It's a beautiful production.

Back wall was a combination: 4 N/C Fresnels from the front, 2 PAR20s in Blue and 20 PAR20s in N/C (footlights, mainly for lighting actors), and then 3 HUIs from the back. The entire set was translucent so that it would glow, and was covered in newsprint held on by brownish stain. The floor being purple is actually a complicated beast. Sometimes, it was the result of N/C and R74 mixing together, occasionally they make purple when the N/C is at low intensity. Other times, it was combinations of Submissive and Dominant Lavender from Apollo. Thanks for your comments!
 
So we just did "The Full Monty"

We went all out on the sign. Here's some specs:

~900 Individual Lightbulbs
~40 watts each
36,000 watts total
300 amps
21 individual 20 amp circuits
3000+ feet of wire
~2000 wire nuts
"The Full" Weighed about 525lbs
"Monty" Weighed over 900lbs
20 Feet tall
20 Feet wide
Too many man hours to count

Total time on stage? Less than 30 minutes.

"It nearly killed us all, but it was worth it" - Barry Whitfield

The wiring on the back was an electrician's nightmare. It started out neat, but quickly grew into a rat's nest.

Here's a demo video that we made. This is the last time the sign lit up. Immediately after this video, we disassembled it.

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Wow. Very impressive, zuixro. How many channels did that take? 14?
 
21, 3 each for "THE", "FULL", and each letter of "MONTY"
 
Here is my latest show. One night only Best of Broadway concert.

6 movers, 10 ERS units, 6 LED PARs.

Mike
 

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I don't get to do a lot of actual shows any more. In my job I am more focused on architectural jobs. These are pictures of the building I have been programming lately.


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One picture from an Eli Mattson concert (America's Got Talent runner up - went to our school and lives in the county) and a sample of Southern Door High School's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

If anyone wants, I have additional pics from Joseph.
 
video and lighting design from that dance show I did in April:
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Think about your life Pippin!

This is the production of Pippin at the high school I work at. The productions are all student run and mostly student designed.
 

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