Temporary Architectural Lighting

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   A cheap, easy but very effective approach would be 150W HMI floods with coloured lamps in, you can get 150W fittings for leas then £40 and a few coloured lamps would give a solid, lightweight solution....

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shagnasty Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 30 July 2007 Location: Guildford, UK Status: Offline Points: 7683	Post Options Post Reply Quote shagnasty Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 August 2009 at 2:22pm
	A cheap, easy but very effective approach would be 150W HMI floods with coloured lamps in, you can get 150W fittings for leas then £40 and a few coloured lamps would give a solid, lightweight solution....

VPAS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 05 December 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1203	Post Options Post Reply Quote VPAS Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 August 2009 at 11:17am
	cheers for the help, i think i will be looking into lightweight floods ginger, its a very good point bout education. I have become very frustrated,at times, with the course im on because of this. There is no substitue for experience
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csg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 17 September 2007 Location: bedford Status: Offline Points: 6085	Post Options Post Reply Quote csg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 August 2009 at 11:40am
	the 150w mbi flood option is probably a good one - the blue / green / pink lamps are effective, particularly if you break up the colour a bit. Go for fixtures with a strong asymetric distribution if you have to mount them near to the facade, this will allow a greater throw of light from the fixture. city colours are great, but are big, cumbersome and are usually bolted into their flightcase bases by hire companies. you could also try throwing some breakup wash from some source 4 profiles or similar if you have an area away from the building to throw light from, or alternatively, if you have access to the inside of the building, how about scrimming the inside of the windows with casement material, and lighting from the inside - either colour changing led or static colours could look very good indeed, at the same time removing the rigging and weather exposure / security problems

Preacher Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 06 February 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1174	Post Options Post Reply Quote Preacher Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 August 2009 at 9:39pm
	Looking at the pic's city colours are a bit bulky, unless you end up rigging a whole load of scaff around the place above head hight, and that would just look sh*te. A cheap solution I used before we had things like DMX floods (city colours etc.), we used those standard outdoor cheap halogen floods. We had some 500w ones for small buildings or features in gardens, and big 1000w ones for bigger buildings. Lit a few country mansions with a load of these, and to give it a bit of colour we put a kind of chicken wire mesh over the front, arched/bowed out from the glass front and attached/clipped gels to them. You have to bow it out as the middle burns the gels to quick, a bit of 'black wrap' foil around the sides to stop light spill, job done. I like csg's idea about lighting from the inside, also you could get LED strips/battens on the window ledges possibly? And if you can get into another building you could use a profile spot with a rotating gobo in it, possibly the name of the event. Edited by Preacher - 19 August 2009 at 9:40pm
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VPAS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 05 December 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1203	Post Options Post Reply Quote VPAS Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 September 2009 at 8:44am
	Cheers for the pointers, the event is still a couple of months away yet so im still very much sat at the drawing board with this. The client has decided that they want the main area of focus to be the corner shown in pics 3 + 4. I witnessed a city colour in the flesh last nite... Just a tad bigger then i thought they were cjeers chris
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Marshy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 05 August 2009 Location: S.Wales Status: Offline Points: 108	Post Options Post Reply Quote Marshy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 October 2009 at 4:13pm
	We have used these and they work great! No cables to run and they are pretty bright for the size! Program them up and leave them run! They normally go out for around £30 p/w from out supllier! Where are you based? Opps... Link! http://www.actlighting.com/GDS/LiteWare-presentation.htm