[SML] Flashbulb look on stage...

[jdunfee12 at yahoo.com]

 It is not clear in your audience if the audience will be seeing the flash source.
If you want the flash on the camera, in the past, I adapted the guts from a disposable camera in the past, to put it into an old camera.  There is a trigger wire.  Another situation, we simply took an electronic flash unit that normally attached to the top of a 35mm, and just taped it to the back of an old Polaroid land camera.  There is a "test" flash button that you can press. Normally, this is the red LED that lights up, and also serves as the button to trigger it.  In the base mount, you can also trigger the flash by shorting two of the contacts...but I don't recall which ones they are.
If the audience is instead seeing the effect of the flashes on the faces of the actors, I would say use dedicated DMX controlled strobes, since they are much brighter.  But, you are not likely to have as many of them around. But, the plan on how to use them is the same as with any LED fixtures, since most of those have a flash function. Use several of them, all at different locations, and program a chase, that varies the speed of the flash, and also when each unit starts up, so that their first flash is not together. 

-Joe
  
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