Well, allow me to help Ian's questions along, since he left out some info that would help:
First, its a concert outside from 12 to 7, so all
daylight. We were thinking that tbe 'back wall' set would be scaffolding with two pipes forming an X inbetween them. From this X and from the scaffolding we would be able to hang fixtures.
My inital thought was mainly to hang something like this
Code:
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
Each pipe would have 4 colors, twofered going inwords (due to dimmers everything must be twofered)
So it would look kinda like:
Code:
f4\ /f8
f3 \ /f7
f2 \ /f6
f1 \ /f5
f5 / \f1
f6/ \f2
f7/ \f3
f8/ \f4
f1 is twofered with f1 f2 is twofered with f2 and so on.
These lights would be aimed stright out at the
stage/audience so we see the beams of light, since the lights won't win the fight with the midday sun.
There would be a
no color source4
par, so this way we can do chases into and out of the X plus swap pipes, and some other cool stuff that can just be programed into a few pages of subs.
Power-wise, we have 12x1.2k dimmers and 5x600w dimmers.
Sadly, I can only easily find 80 amps of
power, though i
may be able to find another 15 amps, if I have the
power to run.
My biggest question is what lenses do we want in the S4PAR's. I was thinking put the VNSP lenses in them, as this way the audience sees the brightest beam, plus since we're lighting for senic reasons, it would look best
IMO.
From what I hear, we have acustic acts, ska acts, regee acts, rock acts, and god knows what else we'll get to deal with.
Color wise I was thinking a basic red/blue/yellow/orange to kinda
cover me for most acts, but I an open to sugestions for colors.
Oh, i'd probably also set up 10 egg-strobes that just came into my posession as well as a 50' source4 shooting up from being the drum kit, just for the hell of it. Any other cool sugestions?