Re: multi-color gel
Can learn a lot from a designer - good and bad. If that's what the designer wants, why not?
Certainly be something to learn from and is that designer's design. Support that designer instead of out think for other than
safety reasons. I would hope others once you are a designer you realize the need for support of your even at times wacky concepts by the staff in support of you - this no matter how wacky the idea it might seem. You see what you know, the LD is trying to make art and you are in support of that effort. Unless TD and even at that
point, unless unsafe should also support a design concept if it can be done realistically. Designer is there to make art not fight off conventionalism - or is this some form of Art = what the Church approves of type of thing dating back centuries?
Less about gonna look good in saving the show this designer has requested a detail of it for you to do, more about supporting even if seemingly stupid something that might just work, or if not was something learned from by you and the designer.
Yea, at times double gelling can do interesting things, beyond that you are fighting
intensity verses the subtractive nature of
gel. Perhaps the LD already compensated for that though or not. Did you concept with the LD while choosing what might seem odd design with him/her that choice? Unless in the room... you as support staff to the LD cannot say what was thought in planed design in making art. Simpler ways in perhaps you seeing - this perhaps until you fight amber
shift in dimming for the color you really want. Perhaps this designer has studied all possibilities in finding the color he/she needed for making art and this is right for the picture.
I would totally support what the designer wants and learn from it in working or not - but that's the designed concept for doing so. Advice, your job is to support the designer in that the best leaders are the best of followers. Learn from what was done, but support the heck out of the choice until you see it done and learn from it. That and further understand why it was done in working or not = something tried and learned from but not persay not to try in a differeent way once you fully understand the concept and rational behind doing so in your case.
Lots of crappy designers out there - and not a place to voice opinion of the designer given in initial post of questioning a concept the designer chose - you didn't reference it. Also, lots to be fair and more so, lots of designers out there doing curious stuff that others in doing so learn from.
In the end, that's the LD. Your job is to support not second guess this person. Want to have to support your own design by way of person cutting the
gel when it's your time to design? Trust and learn no matter what you might think for now and learn from it. You work in production for the LD in convaying not correcting his/her concepts and for the production itself in saving it from what ever the LD did. Be proud you worked on this production, another under the belt and what did you learn from it?
The best leader is the best follower. Charge up that hill and don't question, just learn from what that LD your boss has decided. Good/bad possible but something to learn from - time to close the text
book way and learn in the live. Keep an open mind- many times I thought a designer insane... at times they did make art.