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H2O Water Lighting Effect Test

Lighting Test – h20 water light

This is a staged test on set at the performance area.

I tested this light because I have only used it a few times and I like the effect and the colors it gives off. I have never tried it before in a dark room with smoke and was unsure what the beams might look like and how wide the beam angle would be. The angle would need to fill the full wall of the projector screen wall, when I had a pre test I found out that the lens was too small so I swapped it for the wider one, which was quick and simple.

The test went well, first I put it in the shed on top of a projector A/V stand, shone it at the wall in the room I am using as the performance area, I blew a load of smoke out and used a fan to make sure that the smoke was light in the air so that the lighting beams would look even and fluid and not shown in little pieces. In a way I created a haze in the air, which is a dead soft very thin layer of smoke, which forms when the smoke cloud has been shaken up and blown about. Haze is the opposite to low lying fog which occurs when the smoke is made very cold which makes it very heavy.

When I put the light on I first had a look at the beam span across the back wall and what I saw looked good. I experimented with the positioning of it and even tried the lighting against the white projector screen. This idea did not work because the projector screen is too small in terms of the size of the wall that it is on.  The other idea I tried is to put the light behind the performer and this did not look right because by the time I had placed it higher than the performer it was too high to see the effect. The other problem was you couldn’t see the projected image, which is links well the theme of the song.

I kept the light on blue because I fits with the idea of water and the moving flow of mist or cloud. I put the water moving on the wall instead of the floor because there was not enough room to see the full effect.   

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