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May 12 2008
Let There Be Light…
… and there was. So it turns out they were doing yet another skit at church service yesterday, which for some reason required the use of some super spotlight. But no matter, experience is experience, so I gladly took up the challenge.
The Master Chief’s favourite weapon?
Yea, that’s the spotlight, the massive thingamajig that looks like a saber rifle. Being as long (or tall) as a 10 year-old kid and weighing some 20 kgs, this thing take some serious skill to control. The light basically throws a round beam onto the stage, illuminating (or blinding) the poor soul that happened to be standing there.
It is controlled manually, so while one end points to the stage, the other is held by the operator. With his two hands. My two hands. So basically the beam became a stethoscope, jerking slightly with each beat of my heart. The stand didn’t help much either; it wasn’t very stable and well oiled so any movement was rather jerky, on top of my heart beat.
But it did not fall off it’s stand. It did not cut out during the act. It just shone on the stage and lit up whoever was standing in front. So for that, I’m thankful. The skit went well, luckily I didn’t have to move it laterally to follow the people on stage, just slightly to compensate for the tall (and short ones). Overall? Great fun, shall do more of this stuff soon.
Perhaps some day I shall start a theatre. Or a recording studio. Fun.
3 Comments
May 27 2008
jane
it’s called a FollowSpot. lol!
May 27 2008
Marvin Sum
Same difference, Jane. Haha.
May 16 2008
Wes
That thing looks like it would be fun to operate! But I think I’d be nervous with it.