While there are sadly not 39 steps to the design it was a adventure to say the least.
fixtures
In this design, I used a handful of fixtures including a normal lamp, Altman 6x9’s source 4’s (S4), source 4 jr’s (S4j), 6' Farnell’s, 6' parnells, Chauvet DJ hurricane haze 4d, Chauvet DJ slimpar’s and sl wash 350’s this show was programmed and ran on an ETC Ion xe20
big thonk
When laying out the ground plan of this show I started with a few zones that would need to be lit the biggest of which being center stage and the smaller zones being library/hotel, house, box, and bridge. most of the face light consists of S4s with a few S4j’s and the use of 2 of the Showline movers. For the side light, I used 4 6x9s and 4 parnells.
TRAGEDY!
On opening night of the show, I was able to sit in the audience with my former technical director however in one of the final scenes when the professor gets shot, due to hardware failure one of the movers points in the opposite direction that it was supposed to, giving the control booth a bright red glow. After the show, we took this light down, dissembled it, and gave the Hall sensor and Taco sensor a clean before re-hanging the fixture. The 2ed performance did not go without trouble from this light about halfway thru the 2ed act the light moved to its bounds and continued to try to move past them creating an awful noise, I went to the electrical room and shut down the light and my light console operator parked the light so it could not move. To resolve this problem for the remaining shows we kept this light parked and hung an S4j and an S4 to fill the voids this light created. As of now, this light is no longer in service.
takeaways
For future lighting designs, I would like to have a more formal lighting plot and spend more time drafting my plot as while using more side lighting.
