Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Theatrical Lighting Database, Split Gels and Other Stories
On Stage Lighting: "Funded by the New York Stage Council For the Arts , the lighting database is a great collection of lighting paperwork for a few of Broadway’s legendary shows, designed by the a few of biggest names in lighting design such as Tharon Musser, Richard Nelson and Jules Fisher."
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The theatrical lighting database is going to be an AMAZING tool for aspiring lighting designers as well as current professional designers. This will be a tool that will help collaboration in our profession immensely. People will be able to share ideas. I worry that people may start to worry about people stealing ideas, but we need to remember that we're in an artistic business. It's so difficult to steal artistic expression, because it is individual. I think this will be a great tool, I just don't want people to start fretting about copyright over their creations.
In following the link and checking out the theatrical lighting database, I think that it is going to be one of the most useful and intersting tool at our disposal. I loved looking at the different plots and cue sheets its interesting to see how professional designers work. I also really like the ispuint part of the arricle, that flickr account is really a good idea. I really liked the friday flickr porn of SUNY Fredonia it was just a good shot of a well lit shot
This article is a great resource for people that are in the lighting industries. Some of the sites that they highlight are great. The reference for GAM Split Gel Guide is a great resource. I never knew about the effect that you get when you mix and cut different gels and this provides a great resource when you are designing a show. Also the iSquint Flicker Group is great to keep you informed and in the loop of what are happening in the lighting industry and what other people are doing and what others think of it. All the other things that they highlighted are great to. I found this was a great article showing all the resource that lighting has and I think that I will use some of them on my next lighting project.
The split gel thing is something that we don't often explore. If color scrollers were designed with complementing colors next to each other, then perhaps this technique would be used more often. But scrollers often are in chromatic order (light blue, blue, green, yellow) rather than complimentary order. Blending blue and light blue has almost no effect on the visual quality of scenery.
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