Week 9: The Show and The Load In

Yesterday I loaded in my the show I’m designing (hence why I am now posting this). It was a tiring process, but it went smoother than my last load in (though the cyc flickered, making the dimmer rack surge, royally freaking me out).

I’m really happy I decided to my the pipe ends high sides. I think it really helped a lot to make more of an interior feeling. When I would change the intensity of my cool or warm high side, there wasn’t a chance of the feeling of source. In the past I’ve has to deal with loosing the sense of source for an emotional moment, or have a system that is there just for source.

The tonals have turned more into color mixing I think, which has actually been pretty useful. I’ve been able to create a motif for my show, without hopefully ruining the realism. We’ll see when we run through it tonight if the shifts aren’t too dramatic.

One problem I’ve been running to is that my lights will all be at full and I’ll have no where to go.

I really enjoyed Alyssa’s show. I think there were a lot of good shifts, of the colors really made it feel like a the inside of an office. It wasn’t very academic. I think she also did a really good job not hitting the scenery. The red fresnels during the transitions were really beautiful.

My one critique is during the final sequence (or scene, after the last transition). The cyc was a really beautiful “gray” (I know the color doesn’t exist). It looked like a cloudy, overcast day. But then, it kept changing color. To me, the cyc during the other scenes was sky, not emotion (except for the transitions). Then it kept changing color. I wasn’t sure if it was for an emotional statement or the passing of time, of clouds changing. It was confusing.

Otherwise I really enjoyed it. Especially the composition of the office once the gobo was removed. I liked the gobo, but it was a beautiful composition without it.