Rosco Spectrum: Adam Murdoch was the Lighting Designer for “Henry V” and “Julius Caesar” in Stripped-Back Shakespeare at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). “Stripped-Back” meant no set, no costume designer, and no sound designer – which meant that all of the responsibility for setting the story’s time & place fell squarely on Murdoch’s lighting design. Below, Adam share’s how he maximized the lighting of the productions to fill the void left by the other minimized production-elements and how he put all of the various flavors of Bastard Amber to work warming his stage.
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I don’t mean to be rude, as all of the photos look rather interesting and I’m sure the production as a whole looked good, including the lighting, but every single gel that was mentioned was a very standard and fairly obvious choice. This article basically can be boiled down to “I used R302 and R54 for my front light because of course I did.” They’re safe and relatively effective colors, but not when they become the cop out, no wonder he used the cyc all the time. It was the only thing in the rig that could be remotely interesting. I get that this is an article for Rosco, and they’re probably just posting it to demonstrate how good and standard their colors are, and I understand that this production wasn’t trying to change the world or anything, but there are so many great colors in Rosco’s inventory that are likely used in so many more interesting productions. I wonder why they chose this one.
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