tenor_singer
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Hi every one.
I am probably one of the most fortunate drama directors in my area of the world as I just got a new stage with new lights and sound. My school administration was very generous with equipment. Here's a little back ground on me:
I used to use a stage in our high school gym. The play area was 32' wide by 24 feet deep. I would light it with 8 PAR 56's, 6 6" Fresnels, 6 8" fresnels and 8 6" Ellipsoidals. Needless to say, "mood" was an impossibility as washing was barely done.
We now have the following light inventory:
34 6" ellipsoidals (they look like they have 12 - 16" top hats).
18 6" Fresnels
6 8" Fresnels
12 12" scoop lights
6 3-cluster cyclorama lights.
I have a strand 300 series 24/48 light board and a full rack of cd-80 dimmers.
The channels are 1 - 20 first house
21 - 38 first electric
39 - 56 second electric
57 - 75 third electric
76 - 84 are stage right and left ports for future side lighting and specials (4 of those channels are wired non-dimming... "on/off" switches the guy from Vincent Lighting called them).
85 - 96 house lighting.
My poor tech director is overwhelmed and I have never worked with size inventory before.
Any ideas to help us organize our lights? As of now, I have divided our 34 x 28' stage into 12 circles roughly 8' in diameter. I am having them work on lighting each circle 45 degrees left, right, straight and one back light. That is 4 lights per area using 48 fixtures. I will use the rest for accents of various scenes (we're flying in three trucks with scenery).
My question (finally)... am I doing the right thing? What more can I do to help get all of this organized. I've gone from famine to feast and am uncertain with what course to start.
Help!
Tenor
I am probably one of the most fortunate drama directors in my area of the world as I just got a new stage with new lights and sound. My school administration was very generous with equipment. Here's a little back ground on me:
I used to use a stage in our high school gym. The play area was 32' wide by 24 feet deep. I would light it with 8 PAR 56's, 6 6" Fresnels, 6 8" fresnels and 8 6" Ellipsoidals. Needless to say, "mood" was an impossibility as washing was barely done.
We now have the following light inventory:
34 6" ellipsoidals (they look like they have 12 - 16" top hats).
18 6" Fresnels
6 8" Fresnels
12 12" scoop lights
6 3-cluster cyclorama lights.
I have a strand 300 series 24/48 light board and a full rack of cd-80 dimmers.
The channels are 1 - 20 first house
21 - 38 first electric
39 - 56 second electric
57 - 75 third electric
76 - 84 are stage right and left ports for future side lighting and specials (4 of those channels are wired non-dimming... "on/off" switches the guy from Vincent Lighting called them).
85 - 96 house lighting.
My poor tech director is overwhelmed and I have never worked with size inventory before.
Any ideas to help us organize our lights? As of now, I have divided our 34 x 28' stage into 12 circles roughly 8' in diameter. I am having them work on lighting each circle 45 degrees left, right, straight and one back light. That is 4 lights per area using 48 fixtures. I will use the rest for accents of various scenes (we're flying in three trucks with scenery).
My question (finally)... am I doing the right thing? What more can I do to help get all of this organized. I've gone from famine to feast and am uncertain with what course to start.
Help!
Tenor