Air Con & punters
Mon, 26 Oct 2009, 02:49 pmJoeMc18 posts in thread
Air Con & punters
Mon, 26 Oct 2009, 02:49 pmJust a thought, as the weather is warming up at day time Matinée, especialy if it has not been used for a while. A good idea is to run the system for while prior to opening the house, this allows the air return system filter to clean up the air. Especialy in very old buildings with open frame roof viod structures.
I went along to Garrick for the Sunday Matinée of Hotel Sorento, when I took my seat in the back row the ceiling fans were on, but as the show started they switch from fans to the ducted air con. Good idea as the bcollected heat of the punters started to rise, as most were from the blue rinse set it started to become cooler. Then about 10 minutes into the show the coughs & weezes started, brought on by the dust in the air & became like a mexican wave for a lot of the first half. By the end of the act the air return filters had caught up & scrubbed up the air & the coughs abated.
It's something to think about as we come into summer, especialy when considering our punters in preference to economy.
One thing which I though was quite specky was the blue light spill from the FOH bar lights. It was a great effect on the back of the heads of the front row punters. It realy set off the rinse in thier hair do's.
Also the ambient light coming from under the eaves of the roof into the auditorium, assisted the odd punters going to the loo & helped the warm props moving around the set in the blue outs.
I only seen the first half, I enjoyed It & the set worked well!
G'donya Don!These bubbles
Tue, 10 Nov 2009, 11:54 amG'donya Don!
These bubbles will reduce the need for a lot of ameatre groups to resorting to using those gawd awful Autio workshop elcheapo floods. While these convertions work, they creat a lot of heat & reduce the life of the gels.
I remember years ago one of the LD's of the Aussie Balet, waxing lyrical about his new idea of using Border Battens, as it was a great inovation. The mere fact theatre has being using Xray border lights for epns, didn't enterr into his press release.
This new halogen ES bubble may certainly hearald the return to 3 & 4 colour X ray wash lighting again, even with the use of floats [Footlight] Z ray lighting?
With the stray light sills, I was taught, when I was a wee bloke, to aviod any spill on the punters. Especaily when operating the Limes [followspot]. Which was a problem in those days using carbon ark limes from a pulpit over hanging the audiance. Or heaven forbid lighting the pidgeon holes. As they "would not be amused", especialy if the Box Legie drapes were drawn.