Rosco Spectrum: The iconic Metz Cathedral in France recently celebrated its 800th anniversary. For this occasion, numerous events were organized to highlight the Gothic monument, renowned for its large stained glass windows designed by Marc Chagall. The program included creating illuminated text throughout the cathedral that described its spiritual and artistic heritage.
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Whenever I begin to plan out work I always start way to big and sometimes my core concepts stay a bit to grand but for the most part that is how I like them to be and to feel, it gives them importance for me, and when I think massive cathedral and religious experience I expected a lot more intensity and flashiness that, although I did not get in the projections and such that I saw I think what they did was much more important and engaging that what I originally conceived. It felt very private, as if I was the only one that could see these words and the smallness of them made them seem so much more valuable as if they could vanish at every moment. I think this is a great example of paying attention to the space you are going to present in and working with it, rather than trying to force a space to be something that it is not prepared for because you had an idea.
Having talked about hyper-detailed gobos in lighting class, it's quite something to see a real world example of it–especially an absolutely gorgeous real world example. The iconic Metz Cathedral in France recently celebrated its 800th anniversary and for the celebration, numerous events were organised to highlight the Cathedral. One of the events was the creation of illuminated text throughout the cathedral, describing its spiritual and artistic heritage. Lighting designers, in collaboration with graphic designers, used custom glass gobots to create the illuminated text effect, which was highly successful. Not only this, these lights are DMX controlled, allowing the text to fade in and out. Like I've mentioned before, the combination of old and new is something truly spectacular, especially old architecture and new technology, altering the way one experiences the former through the use of the latter. The gobos at Metz Cathedral exemplifies how successful that combination can be.
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