Sun rise effect

[Jambo_UK]

Hi all,

 

Just wondered if someone could tell me the best way to achieve a sun rise effect using very basic equipent it for a school proformance and the budget is VERY limited, think I have a £10 to do this effect :< But I already have a pale sheet backdrop and access to a follow spot, couple of spots, pars 56, profiles, etc, Anyone recommedn a way or maybe a gobo or somehting

 

thanks for the help

 

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Jambo

[SceneMaster]

I too will be doing a similar effect soon but in a church using a few p56s but it won’t be the best :D . You have a white backdrop and because of your low budget have you considered using a groundrow of lights with orange, yellows and maybe a few whites. This wouldn’t make a specific spot for a sun like you could create with a follow spot but if done correctly can make a stunning effect (well certainly sunset as I have worked on a show recently which did this not sure if it would be so effective for sun rise) For the ground row, floods work best, I think we used several coda flood battens (5 or 6 I think) with the filters slowly getting lighter as they moved into the centre of the sun.

 

Hope this is of help and I will think more on how you could do it with a follow spot. Would you want the sun to actually rise or just the colour of it? I not sure but I think a moving follow spot for a moving sun rise would look rather tacky.

 

Anyone else have any thoughts? ;)

 

Scenemaster

[Brian]

Step 1 - Get up early and watch a real sunrise.

 

First up, I'd not bother projecting an image of the sun itself; sunrise it about so much more than seeing the actual sun. As I write this, sunrise it actually happening outside my window. 20 minutes ago the sky was black with a few stars, 5 minutes ago the sky was a deep lavender with an amber horizon, and now the colours have gone paler and lighter. Still amber at the bottom and lavender at the top.

 

I don't expect to see the sun for a long while by which time the sky will be a bright pale blue and the day will be upon us.

 

Personally, I find looking 'at the real thing' is a great way to work out how to do an effect.

 

[EDIT]

and here we are 20 minutes later, it's now what most people would think off as 'day' and the sun is still not visible.

[James Chillman]

Hey

 

I spoke to james whiteside about a year ago now when my school was putting on calamity jane the musical. One of the main things I wanted to discuss with him was how he created the sunrise as can be seen Here.

If I remeber correctly he used a gobo (cant remeber the exact one im looking it up now) and a couple of profiles fanned on the side of the stage.

 

We couldn't get hold of the gobo's in time so we had to settle with 4 par 64's mounted next to the backdrop.

 

Hope thats of some help.

 

James

[Andrew C]

[EDIT]

and here we are 20 minutes later, it's now what most people would think off as 'day' and the sun is still not visible.

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...and here we are an hour & 20 mins later and STILL no sign of the sun! ;)

[computer]

I've done this before using the groundrows with pale blue (lavendarish), yellow, orange and darker blue. I've also used 4 cheap profiles (might've been par somethingarathers) with brightish yellow colours in them pointing at the cyc slighting higher than the last, in a arc shape. the round shape created by the lights allowed me to 'track' the sun around the cyc in time with the changing cyc colours.