Les Mis

[DoctorStar]

Hi Folks,

 

At a forthcoming musical night, I want to try to recreate that classic Les Mis "Tricoloure" look for some of the songs. I have substituted Parcans for whatever excellent bit of kit the real production uses. I have a decent red gel but which blue colour is best for this effect?

 

Even holding a sheet/swatch in front of me, my "eye" for blue gels is poor/untrained and I either choose something too pale or too purple or too wrong! As I don't want to buy one of every blue in the shop, can you give me a hand?

 

BW

 

DocStar

[Guest]

can't help on the colour to choose but do make sure you get them in the right order.

I was lucky enough to be using LEDs so it was an easy fix but don't make the same mistake of checking/trusting with a cast member.

 

 

Jon

[GridGirl]

I think both times I've done the show the LD used L119 (in parcans ) for the tricolour.

[brianeades]

I used lee 119 in parcans as well.But you need a lot of haze to get the fx over.Make sure the colours are blue ,white and red stage right to left,as this is the right way the tricolor is flown.Greatshow to work on.Have fun.

 

Brian

[Cody Allen]

try the congo blue

[Brian]

try the congo blue

Completely the wrong colour. The whole point is that the three colours should match the colours of the Tricolore.

 

The actual colours are mentioned on the Wikipedia page.