#Marcy Tuttle

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Common Types of Stage Lighting Fixtures

Lighting has become an integral part of concerts, theatrical, and all sorts of stage performances. Lighting professionals create spectacular shows to enhance performance and impress the audience. Their primary tools are various stage lighting fixtures. The most widespread include ellipsoidal reflector spotlight (ERS), parabolic aluminized reflector (PAR), floodlight, follow spot, fresnel, and moving head.

An ERS produces a powerful bright beam of light and is ideal for front lighting. Lighting professionals predominantly use them for strategically lighting people or objects on the stage to draw attention to them. This type of fixture allows for adjusting the beam’s focus to soften or sharpen the edges, using shutters to alter the shape of the lighting, and preventing any overthrow onto surfaces that must remain dark. In addition, ERSs can also hold gobos and gels for a pattern or logo projection and colors.

Gobos, resembling stencils, are thin metal discs with a pattern cut that, when fixed with a holder in front of a light source, cast the pattern on the stage. Gels, also known as color filters, are colored transparent sheets that lighting professionals place in the color frame of a lighting fixture to change the light beam’s color.

PAR fixtures have a simplistic design and resemble classic car headlights. In their essence, they comprise a metal cylinder holding sealed-beam lamps. Lighting professionals use them for washing or filling the entire stage or large parts of it that spotlights cannot cover. While PARs lack focus or zoom options, they come in a wide range of lens types that enables getting different beam angles. Available in standard and LED variations, this type of fixture can also support gels for colored lights. PAR’s affordability and great coverage have made them a staple in concerts and theatrical performances.

Floodlights are the go-to choice for creating a wash. Operators can move these large fixtures horizontally or tilt them vertically. They lack lenses, so the created light varies based on the type of lamp and the reflector. Floodlights can be symmetrical and asymmetrical. The first distributes the light equally above and below the lamp’s horizontal axis, while the latter produces unevenly distributed light going much farther in one direction than the other on the horizontal axis. Like their PAR counterparts, the only accessory that floodlights can support is color gels.

As its name suggests, a follow spot follows performers moving on the stage. A type of spotlight, follow spots emit a powerful, focused light beam to bring extra focus. Human operators manually operate this type of stage lighting fixture, which is particularly handy when they do not know which direction the performer will go and have to react instantaneously. Besides adjusting the follow spot position, operators can also alter the light beam’s size and level of intensity.

Named after their inventor, the French physicist Augustin Fresnel, fresnel fixtures combine features of PARs and ERSs. They lack focus but have a zoom option and typically produce less intense light than an ERS. Fresnels do not support patterns or shutters. Their distinct feature is their lens, which consists of concentric rings. The light at the center ring is the brightest and gets softer by approaching the edges. This type of fixture is especially useful when venues do not allow to position lights in an optimal spot and lighting professionals resort to adjustable optics to create the look they want.

Finally, a moving head is an automated stage lighting fixture that affords maximum versatility and range of motion. They come in various designs and light beam angle ranges, starting from the narrowest beam through the wider spot to the widest wash. A hybrid variation is also available, which can combine any of the other three. Moving heads also offer a multitude of color options and gobo patterns.

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Three from Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing The Human Body, compiled and Edited by John Little for Tuttle Publishing, 1998. The author acquired Lee’s ‘muscle machine” - the Marcy Circuit Trainer (second photo)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/518750.Bruce_Lee

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CRUEL INTENTIONS

Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term.

The remake of Cruel Intentions started as an indie project and was never meant to be more than a short film. In 2016, the film was entered in international film festivals and received very positive reviews which sparked interest in a feature length movie. The first-time director got started on a script and was ready to start production in early 2017. While the premise remains the same, the tone is much darker than the original. It's almost somewhat of a social commentary on the sexual manipulation, decadence and perversion of wealthy and powerful people who mean harm. While it was never meant for a big release, the buzz about the short film and the increasing popularity of its cast make this movie a serious contender to become a cult classic like the original.

MAIN CAST

Katheryn Merteuil - Sylvie Hugo, played by megan Sebastian Valmont - Annette Hargrove - Cecile Caldwell - Leah Choi, played by tess

SUPPORTING CAST

Ronald Clifford - [must be POC] Blaine Tuttle - Greg McConnell - Marci Greenbaum - Dr. Greenbaum - Bunny Caldwell -

Since this is a somewhat smaller film, I'd prefer it if the actors weren't A-listers but rather starting out or trying to break away from previous typecasting. Genders, faces etc. are completely open! Ages for the main cast are between 20-29, ages for the supporting cast differs depending on the role. If you have any questions or would like in on this, you can contact me via private message or on discord, tess#5821.