Return-Path: X-Processed-By: Virex 7 on prxy.net X-Real-To: stagecraftlist [at] theatrical.net Received: by prxy.net (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.2.6) with PIPE id 20879425; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:00:46 -0800 X-ListServer: CommuniGate Pro LIST 4.2.6 List-Unsubscribe: List-ID: Message-ID: From: "Stagecraft" Sender: "Stagecraft" To: "Stagecraft" Precedence: list Subject: Stagecraft Digest #330 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:00:35 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on prxy.net X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.4f2 X-prxy-Spam-Filter: Scanned For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see --------------------------------------------------- Stagecraft Digest, Issue #330 1. Re: Living Wage WAS: ETC Expression/Express Wireless RFU by Sunil Rajan 2. Re: Color Codes by "Chris Summers" 3. Re: ETC Expression/Express Wireless RFU by "Tony" *** Please update the subject line of your reply to use the subject *** line of the message you are replying to! Please only reply to *** one message subject in each reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: From: Sunil Rajan Subject: Re: Living Wage WAS: ETC Expression/Express Wireless RFU Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:04:03 -0500 On Mar 14, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Stagecraft wrote: > Frank, have you ever spent much time working with > moving lights? Even a single unit? I don't mean just looking at one > running a "flash and trash" demo at a trade show of the talk of designing Industrials/Trade Shows, and abominable theatre wages, bear in mind that the LOWEST person on the totem pole for that trade show (probably the assistant to the assistant designer for said "flash and trash") probably made more in a DAY than the poor staff member who gets paid $300/wk + housing!! It's no wonder no one wants to do theatre anymore! Why would I want to design or work on a theatrical piece (that may be artistically/intellectually incredible), putting in 72+ hr weeks (for probably at least 3-4 weeks), when I can make the same amount if not MORE, for a few days of crappy industrial work? Flash and Trash pays, and pays WELL! my 2 grumpy cents... Sunil Rajan Freelance Audio Mercenary ------------------------------ Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: "Chris Summers" Subject: RE: Color Codes Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:06:27 -0500 The one benefit to creating your own is that you don't get confused when you (or someonelse) sorts between your cable and rented or borrowed cable. Just my thoughts, Chris Summers >From: "Jeffrey Kanyuck" >Reply-To: "Stagecraft" >To: "Stagecraft" >Subject: Color Codes >Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:20:31 -0500 > >For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see >--------------------------------------------------- > >Hello All, > I was trying to find the archive for it and for some reason can't >access it. > I'm looking for the color codes that the list had come up with for >lengths of cables and lighting lens degrees. >Were they different than other color codes the USITT or other such >official groups are giving as standards? >I want to try to get the college to conform to what the nation seems to >generally be using, versus what they are using now. > >Jeff Kanyuck > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <00bd01c5294d$7f1ec230$0800000a [at] Tony> From: "Tony" References: Subject: Re: ETC Expression/Express Wireless RFU Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:55:21 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Stagecraft" Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:56 PM Subject: Re: ETC Expression/Express Wireless RFU > For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see > --------------------------------------------------- > > In a message dated 14/03/05 19:17:10 GMT Standard Time, FrankWood95 [at] aol.com > writes: > > > > Point in fact: The fact that you can reach any of your instruments in > > > fifteen seconds helps us not one whit. Even if we could, we would > > > sometimes like to use the automation to change the shutters, color, > gobo, > > > gobo rotation, focus or someother parameter faster than fifteen seconds. > > I missed this one in my previous post. It is not 'automation'.. It needs > exact programming by the LD. Once that has been done, it will do what it has been > told. But, 20 or 30 parameters! It's easier to walk to the luminaire and > adjust it, or to rig another. For me, at least. If you have to play with > cherry-pickers, maybe not. > > > > Frank Wood Frank All this, and your other replies, do is show us (again) that you know not of what you speak! As usual! If you have a complex show that needs a wide variety of specials in different places, then a handful of movers can and DOES present an easy alternative to lots of conventionals. If you need 5 pairs of gobos at 5 different locations in the first act, with the SAME 5 gobos on 5 different locations on stage with different colour in act 2, then can you not see that using just TWO properly equipped and positioned movers will save you hiring (and hanging/pointing/gelling) TWENTY profiles??? OK - that's an exaggerated example, but potentially not that far out of likelihood! And when you consider that those 2 movers can also be used to fill an area that maybe needs an extra lift from time to time (ie use it as a fixed position conventional type source, but just position it when dark) then that's another bonus. Yes, the movers are nice for flashy effects, but if you ever took the time to actually LOOK at what many are used for in real theatre, Frank, you'd likely see that movement whilst lit is quite often the least of the parameters used in theatre design! I only have a small number in our theatre, but the two goldenscans we have sitting full-time FOH were used quite a lot in the January panto this year - but you only actually SAW them move in ONE scene. The rest of the time I complemented the conventional rig with colour lifts, or fixed spots, or static gobos etc. The only time they moved was during a walk-across the auditorium floor (otherwise unlit) where I followed a pre-ordained path that one performer took. Using the goldies as follow spots (the follows weren't being used at all) I then managed to a) save myself the need to hang & focus probably 4 lanterns to do that job, and b) made that portion of the show look a little different. So, Frank, Speak NOT of what you know not, and please stop trying to denigrate that which thousands of experienced LD's DO know and use daily in a cheap attempt to make yourself look more knowledgable than you undoubtedly are!!! Ynot > ------------------------------ End of Stagecraft Digest #330 *****************************