RandyBraunm said:
Heh, I have the same problem trying to get equipment for my old high school. They, too, came with about 100
IPS dimmers from
ROSCO... unfortunately, they came with zero lighting instruments (and the 25 subsequently bought were highly ineffective)
Granted that 25 lights is not a lot, but how is it that they are highly ineffective? Light coming out of a coffee can has an
effect. With some imagination and placement just about every light can be useful even if all you have is a six
channel Dove board and some clip lights.
Granted I lived a good deal of time with some
Colortran Mini-Ellipses without shutters until I made them for the
fixture - such a
fixture was not even really designed for theater use it's an architectural
fixture by the catalog listing of it. Beyond that all, they had green lenses, even a radial style of
Altman would have thrown out a more effective light thus I also cursed them and their dim lamp every day I used them, but some Lekos was still a far cry from no Lekos or any
stage lighting equipment I had worked with at times. Curse your equipment but treat it as gold. Learn to use it to it's best advantage, than ask to supplement it instead of overall replace it. Look what I can do with this, I'm limited in it's overall use but given more and better gear we can go even further might be a better presentation for the need for more gear.