LIGHTING HELP!!
Mon, 10 May 2004, 03:58 amWalter Plinge5 posts in thread
LIGHTING HELP!!
Mon, 10 May 2004, 03:58 amHello everybody
I have a question about lighting that I am havign a really hard time finding the solution to. If you have any idea how to do this or where I could find out how to do it that would be so great!
I need to find out how to have two boxes onstage be one color the entire play until the very end when we will use a lighting/painting effect to make them really stand out and change colors but we dont want to see this change until the very end. The director said that if they glowed it would be cool but it doesnt neccessarily have to be a glow effect. ANy suggestions would be great THANKS SO MUCH
Dramanut
I have a question about lighting that I am havign a really hard time finding the solution to. If you have any idea how to do this or where I could find out how to do it that would be so great!
I need to find out how to have two boxes onstage be one color the entire play until the very end when we will use a lighting/painting effect to make them really stand out and change colors but we dont want to see this change until the very end. The director said that if they glowed it would be cool but it doesnt neccessarily have to be a glow effect. ANy suggestions would be great THANKS SO MUCH
Dramanut
Re: LIGHTING HELP!!
Tue, 15 June 2004, 10:08 pmWalter Plinge
What do the boxes have to be made of?
if they didn't need to be structurally sound, then you could make them of a temprature-resistant, transulecent material, and put a small light inside (remembering that your material will absorb some of the light, and any structure on the inside will cast a shadow)
That would give oyu one colour and the glow effect.
You've then got a couple of options for the colour change. Firstly, do what everyone else suggets, and hit is with an external light, or simply put another, gelled fixture inside the box.
Whilst this is probably goign to be more of a pain than just hitting it from the outside, what with having to worry about shadows and such, it would probably be a touch cheaper (espically if you haven't made your boxes yet), and free up a couple of your all-important profiles to deal with the "improtant" acting areas. (Plus, you wouldn't get pesky actors walking in the way of your beam).
Just one final thought on the structures casting shadows, you could use perspex as a support structure- it's pretty cheap to buy raw sheeets of it, and is workable to a degree.
Or you could get that whole "border" effect on your glowing box.
For more help, contact me at cpl_crud@shagtech.com
if they didn't need to be structurally sound, then you could make them of a temprature-resistant, transulecent material, and put a small light inside (remembering that your material will absorb some of the light, and any structure on the inside will cast a shadow)
That would give oyu one colour and the glow effect.
You've then got a couple of options for the colour change. Firstly, do what everyone else suggets, and hit is with an external light, or simply put another, gelled fixture inside the box.
Whilst this is probably goign to be more of a pain than just hitting it from the outside, what with having to worry about shadows and such, it would probably be a touch cheaper (espically if you haven't made your boxes yet), and free up a couple of your all-important profiles to deal with the "improtant" acting areas. (Plus, you wouldn't get pesky actors walking in the way of your beam).
Just one final thought on the structures casting shadows, you could use perspex as a support structure- it's pretty cheap to buy raw sheeets of it, and is workable to a degree.
Or you could get that whole "border" effect on your glowing box.
For more help, contact me at cpl_crud@shagtech.com