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| Next Year Film (Lighting) Aug 2005 |
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| This was a film shoot for a 40-minute film written and directed by Andy Skroska. We plan to submit it to the Sundance Festival, and perhaps other festivals as well. The film revolves around some hard feelings between a couple guys, after the final game of a losing softball season. It's set mostly in a bar. We used Jack's Tap in downtown Chicago. Lighting was pretty minimal due to a lack of power - a pinspot, a couple of 6" theatre fresnels, a couple Par64s, and a few 500w video floods. | |||
| Vineyard Christian Church New Facility 2005 |
Vineyard purchased the old Shure Microphone r&d facility in Evanston, IL in 2004, and I've designing the stage and general lighting for three of its spaces (main auditorium, lobby, children's stage). |
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| The new system uses a pair of ETC Sensor dimmer racks, with a number of
circuits shared between the spaces to save on dimming costs.
ETC Unison time-of-day programming controls the house lights, normal weekday lighting, and weekly service needs, while a theatrical console handles more specialized needs. With only a 14' ceiling, heat and beam width were issues that had to be dealt with. 5' pipe grids above the main and lobby stages are planned, and cold-mirror S4 Pars for typical weekly lighting (to reduce heat on stage). Several drawings are available for download: Auditorium stage plan (PDF) Lobby plan (JPG) Full floor plan (JPG) |
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| The photos above show some of the construction, and before and
after shots of the space. I came up the concept of the two-level booth, with sound on a slightly
lower level (more in line w/the speaker outputs), and lighting above for a better view.
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| We were finally able to open the facility in June 2006. Due to delays
and permit issues, the church ended up with two mortgages for longer than anticipated, and to help get
this new facility open more quickly, I drastically cut the lighting install budget, delaying a good
portion of the lighting costs until after move-in. At the time of opening, only 6 dimmer circuits had
been installed in the main auditorium (floor pockets upstage); all ceiling circuits were put on hold.
The full grid in the auditorium was installed, but only a couple grid pipes went up in the lobby and
kids' areas. The ETC Sensor and Unison systems were completely installed; the rest of the distro
circuits and lighting fixtures will be added later.
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| Vineyard Christian Fellowship Little Theatre 1997 |
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| These photos are from the Little Theatre I helped design for
Vineyard Christian Fellowship. It was a collaboration with Eriksson Architecture; my contribution was
the lighting system, ceiling treatment, house lighting, and access / storage / wall layout around the
stage area.
The room's design was limited by budget, but included an ETC Sensor dimming system, with a mere 13 dimmers dedicated to the stage and another 7 for house lighting. House lights had 7 zones and were usually controlled by an ETC Analog Address system, which also controlled stage lighting for simple events. House and stage were both controlled by an ETC Idea 24 console for more complex events. |
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| This room was dismantled in June, 2004, but it was used for nearly 6 years to produce small theatre events, coffeehouse concerts, seminars, wedding receptions, worship services, and children's theatre. You can see photos from the children's shows and concerts elsewhere in this portfolio. For a final note, here's Josh pulling the old sound snake out of the wall, in the room's last days: |
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