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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Designing Spider-Man: The Musical » Blog Archive » Spider-Man: The Lighting Paperwork
LiveDesign: Check out all LD Don Holder’s lighting paperwork from associate lighting designer Vivien Leone.
I looked at the initial groundplan and thought to myself, "This can't be all there is, it looks too simple for a Broadway show..." and that thought continued until I saw the section drawing, which scared the pants off of me. THEN I saw the LED floor details...
The shows complexity has a direct correlation to how much I'm unable to read the plot...
Given the magnitude of the show I still appreciated seeing the conventional lighting instruments in this plot. I can't even guess how long it would take to program something of this magnitude. I agree with Jake that it is a lot to process but I think the LED floor is impressive.
Definitely interesting to take a look at parts of the lighting plot for a Broadway show, especially since we are just starting our lighting plot project in studiocraft 2. The most interesting part is to see how they plot out the lights in the scenic pieces, and that LED floor is pretty amazing as others have noted. Great to take a look at and see how the plots look out in the real world (and that they aren't that different from the ones we produce here)
This is certainly a lot more to draft than I've ever had to. Though, at the core, it's still a pretty straightforward document. Getting the chance to pick apart the nomenclature, styles, systems, etcetera, of such a large show was a very fun experience. I think at first I found it surprising that nothing really shocked me, nothing seemed unfamiliar. But I guess that's the point of standardized paperwork. These documents look like the countless others I've looked at or worked on. Though, it's always still fun.
When I saw the inventory list for the show, I commented about how I thought it would be fascinating to see the plots. Now that I've seen the plots I think it's even more insane of a plot. I'm surprised that there are so many ladders in the plot. The number of lights on the electrics and in the front of house makes sense for a large scale production, but the addition of all of the flying ladders, dance ladders, the huge number of practicals in the scenery, and the LED floor make this show the hug scale production that it apparently is though.
From watching the webisode to looking at the plans; again I must say that it’s amazing. The things that you can do and have with a large budget!! I do wonder what the process of tech rehearsal was like as well as how long they were in tech for. I could imagine the nerves/ excitement of the Stage Manager on opening night and dress rehearsal. I would love to have viewed their technical rehearsals.
The design for this show was amazing looking! I am even more impressed by their own creating of the LED lights laid out to make the glowing spider web. Don Holder's design is really complex and you can tell he though hard about connecting with the other aspects of the show, such as, the costumes and set.
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I looked at the initial groundplan and thought to myself, "This can't be all there is, it looks too simple for a Broadway show..." and that thought continued until I saw the section drawing, which scared the pants off of me. THEN I saw the LED floor details...
The shows complexity has a direct correlation to how much I'm unable to read the plot...
Given the magnitude of the show I still appreciated seeing the conventional lighting instruments in this plot. I can't even guess how long it would take to program something of this magnitude. I agree with Jake that it is a lot to process but I think the LED floor is impressive.
Definitely interesting to take a look at parts of the lighting plot for a Broadway show, especially since we are just starting our lighting plot project in studiocraft 2. The most interesting part is to see how they plot out the lights in the scenic pieces, and that LED floor is pretty amazing as others have noted. Great to take a look at and see how the plots look out in the real world (and that they aren't that different from the ones we produce here)
This is certainly a lot more to draft than I've ever had to. Though, at the core, it's still a pretty straightforward document. Getting the chance to pick apart the nomenclature, styles, systems, etcetera, of such a large show was a very fun experience. I think at first I found it surprising that nothing really shocked me, nothing seemed unfamiliar. But I guess that's the point of standardized paperwork. These documents look like the countless others I've looked at or worked on. Though, it's always still fun.
When I saw the inventory list for the show, I commented about how I thought it would be fascinating to see the plots. Now that I've seen the plots I think it's even more insane of a plot. I'm surprised that there are so many ladders in the plot. The number of lights on the electrics and in the front of house makes sense for a large scale production, but the addition of all of the flying ladders, dance ladders, the huge number of practicals in the scenery, and the LED floor make this show the hug scale production that it apparently is though.
From watching the webisode to looking at the plans; again I must say that it’s amazing. The things that you can do and have with a large budget!! I do wonder what the process of tech rehearsal was like as well as how long they were in tech for. I could imagine the nerves/ excitement of the Stage Manager on opening night and dress rehearsal. I would love to have viewed their technical rehearsals.
The design for this show was amazing looking! I am even more impressed by their own creating of the LED lights laid out to make the glowing spider web. Don Holder's design is really complex and you can tell he though hard about connecting with the other aspects of the show, such as, the costumes and set.
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