Live Design: Lighting designer Alain Lortie's plot and gear for Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Zarkana: Light Plot and Lighting Gear List
Live Design: Lighting designer Alain Lortie's plot and gear for Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana.
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It is interesting to see how large of a role moving lights must play in this show. They out number the conventional lights almost 2-to-1 something we wouldn't have seen a few years ago.
The drafting style is also an interesting choice, it is very colorful with not a lot of information presented on it which I am not crazy about. Also I find it interesting that this show is drafted in WYSIWYG which is probably beneficial for visualisation of the moving lights in a show like this but I feel like it is missing a few key drafting elements that intrinsically make a plot look better.
Following Jackson's thoughts, I'm sure that this is the designer's paperwork only because it would not be useful to anybody else. It doesn't show the venue, and it has a sloppy aesthetic. While it's cool to see how they've deployed equipment, I would have liked to see the assistant designer's neater/informative light plot and the Solotech folks' technical drawings.
I also notice they have several DL3s on here, and that's basically a panning and tilting projector with a media server built-in, so I wonder how that's used in conjunction with the media system provided by VYV.
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