Seeking set / prop guru to assist with December production
Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 09:40 pmJohn Grim7 posts in thread
Seeking set / prop guru to assist with December production
Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 09:40 pmAchytex!
Sun, 25 Oct 2009, 07:47 amAchytex! Don't get me started, there was a whole thread a while ago - bless thier wooden sox 'n heads.
We used to be able to get used printers offset plates & make up great gobo's, but sadly they are now made of paper. But any sort of thin sheet metal works well.
I can remember making up glass ones when I was a kid, ok there were a bit fuzzy on the image edges but they did produce pasable projected images.
With the offsets plates I'd draw or find an image on paper, then trace it on to the plate using carbon paper. Then carefully cut it out using a craft knife or scalple, cut the plate to suit the profiles gate size & we had a workable gobo. Sure fine images whould burn out quickly but they cost next to nothing. I have not found anything similar or as good as offset plates as yet? - so I like you resort to producing breakup gobo's out of bits of tin, in the old fashion way.
Of course using computer images on mylar as Fergo's in the Selecon Pacific Lanterns or hiring in computer generated 'Proimage' projection lighting is the way to go now. But I still like messing about with a gobo on occasions.
There kits avaliable to make your own gobo's, but I never ventured that far, from all acounts they are quite cheap & easy to produce.