Monday, November 26, 2007
Draft Guidance Document for Followspot Positions Available For Review
LiveDesign: "BSR E1.28, Guidance on planning followspot positions in places of public assembly, is available for public review on the ESTA website through January 14, 2008. The document offers advice on planning practical permanent followspot positions in theatres and arenas."
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3 comments:
Having read a few of this type of document in public review, I tend to have the following thought. Everything makes logical sense, and I understand that this is from working industry professionals, but certain things seem completely arbitrary, and I would like to see the reasoning behind them. Examples here include the distances and angles, and specifying the power connectors to be used.
Interesting that this is such an issue that standards are being made for it. One would think that architectural theater firms would have some idea about the needs about spot positions. Then again, it's not surprising consultants are not hired for churches, city halls, and other assembly venues that would have the need for a spot position.
This seems to be something obvious, as Alex said, though almost every theater I've worked in or visited has this problem with follow spot positions. I think it's good that their addressing the problem by having specifications but it's crazy that consultants don't seem to know better in a lot of cases. It really becomes a pain in the ass for the electrics department, and really everyone else because someone has to give up the space for these to be correctly placed where they're useful.
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