Focusing or pointing?

[gareth]

I was led to belive that the X/Y position was actually refering to the movement of the head from a control point of view - and not the physical moving of the entire unit!!

Nope. The movement of the head is pan and tilt - altering just one of those moves the light beam in at least two, usually three, of the X/Y/Z axes. Notably, the Wholehog 2 did pioneer the plotting of moving lights using XYZ positioning rather than pan/tilt values, but it didn't seem to catch on as much as it might've done.

 

back to plotting

Oh, but are you sure you mean plotting? Because the dictionary definition of plotting is "to create a graphical representation of something" - and you're not drawing a picture of a lighting state, are you? What you're doing, to be strictly accurate, is recording a lighting state, so surely the sessions during which the lighting designer creates lighting states which are then stored by the board op should be called recording sessions, not plotting sessions.

 

See? Pointless arguments about the semantics of words which have been used perfectly adequately for many years to describe a particular component in the process of creating a piece of theatre are pretty much a waste of everyone's time. Now, haven't you got any coursework to do?

[DavidLee]

Oh, but are you sure you mean plotting? Because the dictionary definition of plotting is "to create a graphical representation of something" - and you're not drawing a picture of a lighting state, are you? What you're doing, to be strictly accurate, is recording a lighting state, so surely the sessions during which the lighting designer creates lighting states which are then stored by the board op should be called recording sessions, not plotting sessions.

 

Rubbish! Plot also means Plan or Contrive. (Or to make a secret plan - which may be more relevant )

 

An operator may only be recording but the LD is most definitely plotting.

 

David

[Kevin Ross]

Sorry I cant resist any longer,

 

 

 

Why do lampies get hacked off when you call a lamp a bulb? As in “The bulb has gone in that PAR”

 

 

 

p.s. I always call them lamps but I just wanted to know

[Jammie300]

Just for my 2p(15%VAT Excl.),

 

Focus the profiles and fresnels,

 

Point the PARs, but I do rotate the lamps to get the oval across the stage.

 

Pan and Tilt the moving heads

 

James

[Mr_Jules]

Why do lampies get hacked off when you call a lamp a bulb? As in "The bulb has gone in that PAR"

 

Because a bulb is something you plant in the ground!

 

A 'light bulb' on the other hand almost always specifically refers to an incandescent lamp, whereas 'lamp' refers to the replaceable component that produces light - be it incandescent, halogen, fluorescent, LED, discharge, carbon-arc or whatever. Semantics I know, and we all use one for the other now and again.

 

Also, while we're at it, a PAR is a lamp a Parcan is the unit containing it

 

Now, what about calling a lantern a 'light'?

[LXbydesign]

Now, haven't you got any coursework to do? :P

 

Er, excuse me Mr, but your only 2 years older than me thankyou - and as LD I was "plotting" my own states into the desk.

 

I would kindly request you check ones profile before you make a comment like that.

[heinz57]

Interesting discussion.

 

I would say focusing. However you are right, with a PAR it is just pointing, because you cant alter the beam etc.

 

I suppose the only reason I call it focusing is because its how I was introduced...

 

Just my thoughts

 

:P

[MarkPAman]

Interesting discussion.

 

Where? :P

[Kevin Ross]

Interesting discussion.

 

Where? :P

 

 

You just cant see it because the lights are not pointed, I mean plotted, I mean focused :)

[gareth]

Interesting discussion.

 

Where? :P

Over there. {Points to another thread. ANY other thread ...}

[Andrew C]

This really has gone far enough. There is no more to be said on the subject as far as I can see...