Re: Hey i thought we could share pic of our shows
Hey thanks. Our very antiquated mechanically dimming
house light
system totally fritzed in the beginning of the year. Despite hours of babying and rewiring and cleaning, the only solution was to rewire the
system for ON/OFF.
So my solution for the shows that we have done since is to use some of our instruments to fill in. For Everstock it was those big rectangles on the wall that undulated with our
house music. For Les Miserables, I don't have a good picture of it but because I was so incredubly short on dimmers, I pointed the VL2500s out to the
house and shot them up against the walls with a prismed "
block"
gobo and threw in some cyan. During
intermission I tossed in some magenta into a few of the fixtures to reflect the change in the mood. Simply "GO"ing to black wasn't an option esthecially for either shows. I think its important to bring the audience into the magic of the show as well. Make them feel involved from the very start.
Ha in reference to the
haze. Well yes, its great what you can do when you don't have
AEA breathing down your neck, or rather choking and coughing. The type of camera that was used to take these shots doesn't do a great job and controlling the highlights so at times it appears as though there is more
haze in the air then there actually was on
stage.
However, for Les Miserables I won't deny it was pretty well fogged up. The way that we imagined the show, it really needed it. Given the lack of scenic elements, the atmosphere was great for making it appear as though we were sort of in limbo as opposed to still in a black box and was a great way to evoke shapes out of the light which weren't actually present on
stage. Also, I used a tremendous amount of top/backlight for this show which really emulates the
haze.
There were seens such as during the
barricade battle scenes and Javert's Suicide where I just held down the
submaster controlling the F100 USC for a few seconds to really blast the place. That thing was beautiful in making the ACLs USC really look like muzzle or
cannon fire or to hide Javert as he jumped from the
barricade (which magically tranformed into the bridge) into the river. When I get a better shot of that part of the show, I'll post it. Really one of my favorite moments.
The only complaint I got from actors was about the smell. Oh well, tough. Obviously, I'll have to be more careful when I start working in union houses but its nice to
play around in high school and see what really works best for you.
BTW Everstock emlployed the use of a Reel FX DF-50 and Les Mierables used a LeMatire Neutron XS and High. End F100