[SML] media servers: was Re: Future of Luminaires

[Chip Wood]

On even a cruder scale.  My company toured a single set "Christmas 
Carol", everything fitting into a SUV.  We could have done it 
Shakespeare style "Here is a small boy in an empty schoolroom", but I 
added a simple front projector onto a 20"x20" white cloth worked into a  
masking flat.  After each show I asked audience members if the images 
helped or distracted from the show.  About 95% good reaction saying it 
added to story. The other 5% wanted the screen bigger.  I even got fancy 
and morphed  Marley's face on and off the door knocker.

BTW, usually you can buy an  ""Official Sound Effects" tape/CD w/ the 
script.  Don't! Never had a good experience with one and ended up 
rolling my own.

Chip 1

On 9/8/2015 2:26 PM, Alf Sauve' via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> Very amateurish compared to the others listed, but in the school arena 
> we're using more and more rear projection cyc's for grade school and 
> middle high musicals.  Typically it's a large rear projection center 
> screen, with one projector. Last school year on of the Jr. musicals 
> came with backgrounds on a DVD for just that purpose.