Frankly, we don't care whether or not he agrees, and nor should you, once you're out of his class. Control Booth is designed to supplement knowledge gained from teachers and professors, not replace or contradict it. Now, once you're out from under him you can do whatever you want. The suggestions posted here are just that--a collection of suggestions we have learned as to what works and what methods some Lighting Designers use. There are no right or wrong answers....It is close to what my prof wants and I will send him the definition to see if he agrees...
Kevin, what you have described above most closely resembles a Focus Chart, or possibly an Instrument Schedule, but is incomplete as it is missing, at a minimum, Channel and Color information.i just thought of this. Could it be that the OP is looking for something like this:
Electric | instrument # | Type | Degree | Distance from CL | Pan | Tilt
---1----------1---------S4------36----------18" SL-------(45)-(-45)
---1----------2 --------S4------36----------18" SR-------(-45)-(45)
Etc Etc.
I am not sure if I did this right, and i know there is a term for this. Off the top of my head, I cannot remember.
On my crews I was fairly strict about everybody useing the correct terminology so everyone one would be on the same page. This was very useful with touring companies comming into our theatre. Nomanclature should be universal, so as one moves from one theatre or venue to another we are all on the same page. I know, we will always have some differences.
Not true. Its interchangable with source or primary light in the theatre. Every theatre I've worked at in the past ten years I've heard somebody refer to it as a key light.
Unfortunetly its not and never will be. Its regional...If only we lived in a perfect world where it could be universal. Granted in this perfect world you'd never say Kleenex or Leko either....
But keeping a crew using the same terminology is a must...or at very least making sure everyone explains themselves when they say "just fly fish that."
I do. Either ERS, ellipsoidal, or by brand name and or degree. Typically by degree those...as in I need a bunch of 19's.Grog, I tried to avoid the Leko thing, but who calls them anything else these days,
I am away from my research materials at the moment, but I believe, technically speaking, Strand-Century only sold LekoLights. Once they dropped the Century name, from 1991 until the SL Coolbeam, Strand sold LEKOs (with the star in the "O").
You're referring to PC spots? (not the Morpheus ones)? Selecon still makes them, although I don't know of a single place in the US that uses them.
You're referring to PC spots? (not the Morpheus ones)? Selecon still makes them, although I don't know of a single place in the US that uses them.
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