Firstly, if you're using red
gel in a source4 to
throw beams, i think a better way to see th red would be to use your shutters and sort of widen the beam horizontally. This will make a thicker beam of light from the audiences view
point and so help that difficult red stand out a
bit more? You could also have a
boom in each
wing with three or four source4's focused in this way, creating red beams everywhere that you can
play with cross-focusing, or have the beams in different angles and places through the show??
Play around with it!
For the car
chase, try having a
stage hand side
stage, holding a PC or even a wide
Parcan focused horizontally. he should hold it facing in front of him, as though he were the car, and move acording to the physics of a
vehicle side
stage, whilst playing the car
chase sound
track. this way, the spills and reflections, could kinda give the illusion of a
vehicle moving around side
stage...?
...Just my 2 cents