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Topic: small screen for live theatre's "coming soon" events
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-26-2013 09:46 PM
Scott, I have done exactly what Mark suggests -- we've painted the Fire Curtain white and have projected on that. I used that to project Disney's CINDERELLA because the 1.37 really was dwarfed and the Fire Curtain was downstage of the screen so without any masking I could get a really nice size image. BUT, of course that requires that everything is set up behind it. We have an orchestra pit that comes up to stage level so that it effectively becomes a thrust stage. Most of the time musicians set up on the pit all the way upstage of the Fire Curtain so it presents the same problem as flying the screen -- stuff gets in the way of it, although a really fascist stage manager can demand that enough space be left for either the Fire Curtain or the screen fly to fly in unobstructed. Our Fire Curtain flies in with the push of a button, no pain in the butt as far as that goes, but it does take a good 45 seconds to complete its journey -- not too bad if you can cover it with music or an MC, but the downside with ours is that it makes quite loud grinding and moaning sounds of the hydraulics. I think there is a NYC ordinance still on the books saying the Fire Curtain must be brought in for every show, but we stopped doing that about two years ago -- not sure why or even if we are not in violation. We never use it during a show, only before and after and only when the house is not yet opened. (Hey, anyone ever see what happens when you cut the safety cord on that massive Fire Curtain? Ask me.)
More often than either the main screen or Fire Curtain, we use rear screen for projection with live acts going on in front of it. We do have a shallow stage -- 35ft back from the proscenium line (it does not include the thrust stage -- so the RP screen is about halfway downstage at the first second traveler. That necessitates are very short throw lens; only thing with rear screen projection and especially with a short throw lens is, just like silver screen front projection, RP has a nasty hot spot. I mean REALLY nasty. For promotional stuff that is not the main focus of the show, it's tolerable for audiences -- for me, just looking at it and I need to take serious anti-psychotic medication.
If your stage is deep enough, RP is a good solution.
As for a fly screen either RP or FP, almost always the frame is heavy enough that they don't sway unless someone is messing with them. Our RP has a bottom skirt and usually the stage hands put a sand bag on it and that's enough to stop any movement that air flow might cause. Our main screen is on heavy metal frame; NOTHING moves that once it's flown in. We to use stage anchors which bolt it to the floor to secure it in position only because it was not hung absolutely dead center and with the scope image going pretty much the full width of the proscenium, you can't be off even a little or you'll be hitting the wall, so we anchor it to force it to play center.
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Jack Theakston
Master Film Handler
Posts: 411
From: New York, USA
Registered: Sep 2007
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posted 03-01-2013 02:43 PM
At my theater, the line that has the screen is something line the 7th and 8th bar back, so it's relatively close to the foot of the stage. We drop the full screen down, and set up as close to it as possible, and have the DVD audio coming from the PA system (the trailers are on a loop on DVD).
Since this isn't an option for you, I agree with the previous poster that you might drop the screen down half-way (we've done this to varying degrees of success). If it were my theater, I would probably work with the band's tech director and my tech director to make it work with the screen down full, but I understand my politics are different than others.
quote: Frank Angel In NYC they required all theatres with asbestos fire curtains to be removed
It's not actually a requirement, that's a choice a theater owner makes. As long as the asbestos curtain is encapsulated or free of rot and loose fiber (thereby adhering to Title 15, Chapter 1 of the Rules of the City of New York), it's legal to have an asbestos fire curtain. Anyone who tells you otherwise is blowing smoke up your butt.
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