topsy100 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Hi forum people I need a bit of help. I have been around this lighting game for many years but never come across the term 'blob plan' any ideas what this is, what I may know it as and where the term generates from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marineboy63 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Not heard the term, but I would asume it's a lighting plan. Blob - bulb - lamp - lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the kid Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Blob plan ? as mentioned in Unit 67 of the btec in production arts ? cause thats all I can find. I am going for a plan that lists areas. http://www.pgstage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/six-area-stage-lighting-plan.jpg I would say each of those areas are "blobs". It is perhaps more blobby if you have lots of set, and key areas. Say a rectangle up stage, and lots of action DSL, and then some small action CS, and a false corridor created in light SL>SR. Lots of weird blobs on the plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 At least I'm not to blame - Much of that is copied and pasted from the old one I did, but somebody added one of these new crazy educational terms. A Blob Plan is a general conceptual drawing - fag packet sketch we might have said years ago. If I'd still been doing it I'd have mucked that out in the first review! I think it's of American origin, but I've heard a few people use the term in the design area, but never linked to lighting! Just shows doesn't it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Sounds like someone got bored and started making up daft names for things. I've been working in this business for 22 years and I've never heard the term 'blob plan' before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkiDonki Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I thought it was a strategy for dealing with a certain monthly problem. I'll get me coat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itiba Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 I hadn't heard of the term either but I would have assumed it was something like this - which is often something I see sent out with riders for small musical acts on tour and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topsy100 Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 thanks for that guys it is indeed used in BTEC module. So im going to assume its ###### ** laughs out loud ** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Being serious for a moment, if you contact BTEC, you can ask them. They then contact the subject leader, who will google, and find this topic, and he will then call the senior team member of the subject who is not an employee of the board. He will then talk to the person who wrote it, and they will decide what it is. Clearly, somebody cannot be assessed on producing something that even the internet cannot produce a definition for. The likelihood is that the unit was written by somebody who thought the term was in common use, based on their experience, and sadly it's perhaps a local term used where they work, rather than an industry term. Probably a simple mistake, which I can understand. Proof reading wouldn't have caught it unless the proof reader was a subject specialist,which is unlikely. It does need sorting because people will be trying to produce one! I'll let the right person know so he can be prepared for the inevitable questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik10_4 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Searching the recesses mind from my IT Project management days, I'm assuming this refers to a 'Blob Chart' rather than a 'Blob Plan' ... the 'Blob Chart' is defined here .....just as a matter of interest, 'blob' is also somtimes defined as 'Binary Large OBject' in database terminology where a field of the blob variety typically contains something like an image...don't know whether there is any connection with the blob chart though http://www.blue-room.org.uk/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indyld Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I'm trying to remember if I've heard it from the mouths of BTEC Prod Arts students, the phrase is somehow recognisable to me but not directly from practice. As suggested above, this evokes in my mind the practice of dividing the stage into areas and drawing shapes on a plan of the set, something that many do, including some directors in my experience (not exactly the blobs of a band's stage plan on a tech rider, but with some similar uses). The practice could be somewhat related to what Shelley calls the Slinky Method, but no-one else I've ever come across does, so one assumes he made it up. Perhaps the 'blob plan' is similarly narrow in its usage but appeared in the BTEC syllabus somehow. It's certainly not in any textbooks I can recall nor have I come across it in the field. However, the phrase is not new to me, for some reason. Edit to add: // The key for me is, if I hear it again, not to reinforce it and take it up myself. While language develops, I wouldn't wish to bring a term of unknown provenance and that doesn't really exist in the profession. Of course, it would grow to be so should enough people continue to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 They're now aware of this, and the right person has read the topic - they're sure that as it's just an indicative component, it won't impact on assessments - so is just an anomaly and not to be concerned about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Pearce Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Are they also aware of the "lowest takes precedence (LTP)" mistake (learning outcomes, page 2) in Unit 66? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indyld Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Are they also aware of the "lowest takes precedence (LTP)" mistake (learning outcomes, page 2) in Unit 66? Everyone knows this stands for Last To the Pub!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Well I know what I think! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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