There are no silly questions
Sun, 22 June 2008, 05:26 pmDavid Ashton26 posts in thread
There are no silly questions
Sun, 22 June 2008, 05:26 pmEvery week I get phone calls asking "Where can I get fake blood"? or "where can I get a car for "Grease"? or "how does a scrim work"?, well if all us technical crew could ask these questions on this forum it would soon become a gold-mine of information for everybody concerned.
So how do you make fake blood?
Don I came across a Pt 76,
Thu, 26 June 2008, 04:12 pmDon I came across a Pt 76, from memories there may have been 2. At the Old Mill. Hywell & myself hung them in the foyer, as a Memorabilia decoration, a while ago. i didn't bother rewiring them & they probably ended up in the skip.
In Mal's day he also flogged Pt 60 floods as part of the school package. Along with heaps of Pt 45's, which were & still are a good little Fre'nel. I remember messing about sticking a mirror on the back access door, which did make a difference, as a reflector. A wee bit delicate off course, if handled roughly, because of the tinkle tinkle!
But what did work safely, was reflective oven foil, on the inside of the access door.
At the time they were cheap of course, except for the lack of a reflector, they would be just as widely used as the 123. But generally end up in the skip, which is a pity, where a wee bit of TLC & you have an affect little lamp.
I was at the Garrick last night, unfortunately from my sight line angle of the lens. I couldn't see type of Fresnel used as back light. But would have assumed they were the 123's? I did see a while back in the UK, they were flogging some chrome plated ones, for around 20 Quid each. Probably they had been used in a Disco set up or whatever.
I prefer them to the Birdies [One over PAR] in a lot of cases, for soft high lighting.
It's great with this 'Tech Talk' now, old farts like me can waltz down memory lane - Thanks everyone I might get to be a 223 & be a 1KW - becoming even brighter?
TOI TOI TOI CHOOKAS
[May you always play to a full house] Hear the lights & see the sounds.