Powering Up the Up-Lights

My Stagecraft class mounted and focused the lights underneath the Plexi-glass platforms today. They removed the C-clamps that are normally used to hang the lights, and mounted the fixtures on flat bases. Then the bases were screwed to the floor.


Then they aimed the lights up through the openings in the floor. Here you can see a spotlight between my feet.


Then we brought power to the lights from the various backstage dimmer locations. But since we have to be able to roll that large bedroom door wagon off stage, we couldn't run cables on the floor. So the crew strung up the cables using a 10 foot tall lighting boom, seen on the right of this photo.


Power! This is what it looks like under the scaffolding with all the 750 watt ParNel spotlights turned on.


And this is what it looks like when we toast the actors with up-light! I took this photo from Eva's balcony above, looking down at the stage-right platform. Three crew members are lit from below in a very dramatic effect.