I have been tasked with designing a new rep plot for the space a theater company I volunteer with rents. Its been about 4 years since anyone touched it. Focus has drifted over time, and most of the gels have faded to clear. System is a decade old with 24 360Q 6x9 and 19 65Q (I feel like I missed a 65Q in my count).
Based upon the constraints imposed upon me in terms of mandatory specials by the facility, I think I have 10 each 6x9 and 65Q to accomplish a 5 across/2 deep stage wash. No barn doors. No downlight due to space constraints. I'm debating between an R02/R60 using the 65Q for the downstage zones (dead on unfortunately) and the 6x9 for upstage, or doing a single monochromatic wash with the 6x9's and trying with 12' ceilings to do a down light system with the 65Qs. If you could have only 1 gel color, what would it be? R02? R00? R60? R33?
I know whatever I hang is most likely going to barely fall under functional, and the next person in that space is probably going to wonder if I were thinking at all, and just what and how much I was smoking when I hung this, but I need to try and improve things so that the DS wash is actually uniform enough an actor can walk across the stage instead of tracing a path around the dark spots. I've always been more of a technician than a designer.
Based upon the constraints imposed upon me in terms of mandatory specials by the facility, I think I have 10 each 6x9 and 65Q to accomplish a 5 across/2 deep stage wash. No barn doors. No downlight due to space constraints. I'm debating between an R02/R60 using the 65Q for the downstage zones (dead on unfortunately) and the 6x9 for upstage, or doing a single monochromatic wash with the 6x9's and trying with 12' ceilings to do a down light system with the 65Qs. If you could have only 1 gel color, what would it be? R02? R00? R60? R33?
I know whatever I hang is most likely going to barely fall under functional, and the next person in that space is probably going to wonder if I were thinking at all, and just what and how much I was smoking when I hung this, but I need to try and improve things so that the DS wash is actually uniform enough an actor can walk across the stage instead of tracing a path around the dark spots. I've always been more of a technician than a designer.
