Hello all,
I've been asked to a light a show for the community theatre. It's a decent enough space for a proscenium configuration. However the director wanted to do the show in the round. The play is "Spoon River' by the way. So here comes my list of problems. The building is rather old...
There are no permanently attached battens. All I have are 6 torms, 4 are 12ft and the other 2 are going to be I think 10ft. Now the really fun thing is that half of the "stage" is on the actual stage space and the other half is down in the house. The stage is 20'x20' and it's about half in the house and half on the stage. The house has a slight rake to it. I'm trying to keep the torms out of the way except I can hardly get any light on the acting areas without lighting up half the audience because of the angle and with the shallow angles the light's going to be right in the audience’s eyes.
From what I can figure I’m going to try to put a torm on each corner of the playing space and then two in the middle against the walls in the house.
My original idea was to use the two side torms only for fill light and the 4 corns for the main acting light. However now I'm thinking that it may be a better idea to use 4 torms in the middle of all the sides and then use the other two for specials from the corners.
If anybody has any ideas on placement and types of lights to use let me know. I have a decent budget to rent some lights. I have 11 40 degree shakes and 15 or so 6" fresnels.
I'll try and get some picture up tomorrow.
Thanks
I've been asked to a light a show for the community theatre. It's a decent enough space for a proscenium configuration. However the director wanted to do the show in the round. The play is "Spoon River' by the way. So here comes my list of problems. The building is rather old...
There are no permanently attached battens. All I have are 6 torms, 4 are 12ft and the other 2 are going to be I think 10ft. Now the really fun thing is that half of the "stage" is on the actual stage space and the other half is down in the house. The stage is 20'x20' and it's about half in the house and half on the stage. The house has a slight rake to it. I'm trying to keep the torms out of the way except I can hardly get any light on the acting areas without lighting up half the audience because of the angle and with the shallow angles the light's going to be right in the audience’s eyes.
From what I can figure I’m going to try to put a torm on each corner of the playing space and then two in the middle against the walls in the house.
My original idea was to use the two side torms only for fill light and the 4 corns for the main acting light. However now I'm thinking that it may be a better idea to use 4 torms in the middle of all the sides and then use the other two for specials from the corners.
If anybody has any ideas on placement and types of lights to use let me know. I have a decent budget to rent some lights. I have 11 40 degree shakes and 15 or so 6" fresnels.
I'll try and get some picture up tomorrow.
Thanks