patriot123
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Okay, so basically I'm a college student. I was given a job offer to light a wedding in the area -- they want uplight hitting draperies along the wall, and that's it so far. The thing is, clearly this place isn't going to have a dimmer rack -- that's a no brainer. My experience is from high school -- ie theatrical and stage lighting, so event lighting is new to me. I was thinking of renting a bunch of PARS and using those -- possibly LED's, too, and lining them up against the wall. I figured I'd rent a small ETC Express and just do looping cues from red to green to blue, or some range of colors. I'd daisy chain four or so groups of them. The problem, of course, then becomes power. See, at my high school we had old, 1970's lights so I unfortunately didn't get as much experience as I'd have liked, and therefore I'm unsure of what's best to do.
So: would renting a bunch of LED PARS be best for this sort of job? If so, how do I power them? I can't just rent a dimmer rack, right? How would I get power for it? You can't just plug it into the wall, of course. I've read about something called a "Company Switch," but I don't think a wedding place would have such a thing. Everything would probably need to be edison as opposed to stage pin, correct? If so, how many LED PARS can I fit on one 120V outlet?
Also, what happens if I use non-DMX lights? Like a conventional source four? Then how do I control it with the lighting board if there are no stage pin connectors, no dimmer rack and no grid?
Additionally, would it be best to actually use an ETC Express lighting board for this sort of job? Or would it make more sense to rent something else? Is it at all practical to rent an ETC Express board for this job, if it's one of the only boards I feel comfortable with?
And lastly, last question -- suppose I wanted to do some lighting onto each individual table. You know, make all the tables orange at one point, then blue... what would be the neatest and most professional way to hang such fixtures? Would You have to rent an entire truss system, and hang them overhead? Or could you get away with a few pipe trees around the room and just focusing each fixture onto each table? My only concern then would be that the light would be hitting people as opposed to just coming straight down.
Thank you!
So: would renting a bunch of LED PARS be best for this sort of job? If so, how do I power them? I can't just rent a dimmer rack, right? How would I get power for it? You can't just plug it into the wall, of course. I've read about something called a "Company Switch," but I don't think a wedding place would have such a thing. Everything would probably need to be edison as opposed to stage pin, correct? If so, how many LED PARS can I fit on one 120V outlet?
Also, what happens if I use non-DMX lights? Like a conventional source four? Then how do I control it with the lighting board if there are no stage pin connectors, no dimmer rack and no grid?
Additionally, would it be best to actually use an ETC Express lighting board for this sort of job? Or would it make more sense to rent something else? Is it at all practical to rent an ETC Express board for this job, if it's one of the only boards I feel comfortable with?
And lastly, last question -- suppose I wanted to do some lighting onto each individual table. You know, make all the tables orange at one point, then blue... what would be the neatest and most professional way to hang such fixtures? Would You have to rent an entire truss system, and hang them overhead? Or could you get away with a few pipe trees around the room and just focusing each fixture onto each table? My only concern then would be that the light would be hitting people as opposed to just coming straight down.
Thank you!