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New Photo Contest Sponsored by Rosco Labs
It’s back! One of the most popular activities we’ve ever done here on TheatreFace.com is returning, bigger than before!
Wanna brag about a great production you were involved with? Want to show off your great design? Want a chance to win some incredible prizes from Rosco? Then start combing through your portfolios, because it’s time for another TheatreFace.com Photo Contest!
The sponsor of the contest this time around is Rosco Laboratories. They make paint, gels/filters, fire proofing sealant, fog, gobos, gobo spinners and a whole lot more—but this month we’re going to focus on gobos! All you have to do to enter this month’s contest is share a photo of a production you worked on (in any capacity—designer, stagehand, actor) that used a Rosco gobo! Standard, custom, steel, glass, scenic or pattern breakup—any Rosco gobo is eligible! (NOTE: We will NOT accept pictures of your last romantic breakup. Pattern breakups only, please. :-) )
Once we have all of our entries, they will be pitted against each other in a Thunderdome Poll – all photos enter, but only one wins. The poll will be open to the public, and while you are only able to vote once—anyone can vote. (Friends, co-workers, cast members, drinking buddies—which, since you’re involved in theatre are all the same people…)
You better get a lot of people to vote, though, because the winner will walk away with a brand new Rosco SimpleSpin Dual Gobo Rotator. And because those work best with multiple gobos, Rosco’s throwing in 10 gobos, too! You’ll get to choose 6 steel gobos and 4 glass gobos from their collection. Sound good? Then share a photo!
THE RULES
From Friday, May 4 to Sunday, May 20, TheatreFace.com members can enter the contest by posting a comment on this blog page containing a photo (or a link to a photo hosted on the TheatreFace.com servers) with a short accompanying sentence describing the gobo used, and how. A simple “Here’s a moment from our production of Annie, we used Rosco Gobo 77203 ‘New York’” or “I lit a production of Uncle Vanya, and used Rosco Standard Steel gobo ‘Mottle Breakup’ during this scene” is all you need. And yes, the gobo effect needs to be on display—you can’t say “We used a Rosco gobo, but not in this scene.”
Members can upload photos via the TheatreFace.com Photo Uploader, and link to them in their comment, or add them directly to their comment on this post.
Starting on Monday, May 21, all entries will be displayed on a new blog post, and an online poll will be opened for readers to vote for their favorite picture. ANYONE can vote—the poll will be open to everyone on the web. If you want to promote your photo on Facebook and ask people to vote, go for it!
Voting will close on Monday, May 28 (Memorial Day), at 10 p.m. Pacific Time, and a winner will be announced Tuesday, May 29!
(Enjoyment of the prize to begin soon after…)
THE FINE PRINT:
1. – If we receive more than 15 entries, voting may be broken up into various rounds so photos don’t get buried in the melee. This will affect the dates of the final voting and the prize announcement. If we need to move to a multi-round format, an announcement will be made.
2. – Yes, only TheatreFace.com members can submit photos—but anyone can join TheatreFace.com. If you want to participate, simply click on any of the “Join TheatreFace.com” links. I have to approve your membership (and that might not happen immediately if you’re requesting to join at 2 in the morning) but it’s the best way I know to ensure that we don’t have spammers flooding the community.
3. – Photos MUST be uploaded to TheatreFace.com. I know is says this in the normal rules, but I really want to be clear about that. If you link to a photo on Facebook (or Flickr, or Photobucket, or etc…) we can’t use it, it’s not entered. Sorry.
4. - One entry per person. Multiple people can enter for the same show, but they must submit a separate picture of a DIFFERENT gobo effect.
And that’s all! If you have any other questions, post them in the comments, or send me a message.
And, of course, big thanks to our sponsor on this contest (in case you somehow missed it before now): Rosco.
Comment
- Comment by Alex Zylka on May 19, 2012 at 3:32pm
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Hung for my high school's performance of How to Succeed, and used below for a one-off Battle of the Bands - on our musical set...
Rosco 78421 - Jagged Moonlight Thick
Rosco 71026 - Foliage Breakup
These two lights are crossed, coming almost straight down onto the wall, and were used as bumps for the end of a few songs, and during the entirety of "Brotherhood of Man." I experimented a little, and loved how this looked because it was originally supposed to be texture for the terrace scene on the wall, but I hated how that looked, so I moved the lights and focused them how they look in the picture...
- Comment by Michael Diederich on May 16, 2012 at 2:38pm
- Comment by Amanda Clegg Lyon on May 16, 2012 at 1:02pm
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This is from "Please Don't Touch" with Enforced Arch Dance. It's a 77780 high side NC system cutting through green LEDs from the booms.
- Comment by Amanda Clegg Lyon on May 16, 2012 at 1:00pm
- Comment by Al the Tumbleweed Williams on May 14, 2012 at 3:42pm
- Comment by Adair Redish on May 14, 2012 at 2:07pm
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This photo is from the production of The Mollycoddlers, by John Corrigan. The barn interior set was designed by Dennis Horn. Lighting design by Adair Redish. The moonlight gobo effect on the floor and wall was created by using several Rosco 77833 Water 1. The gobos were placed in Source 4 36d and from a high FOH angle. No gel.
The gobo on the door was a Rosco 77806 Leaf Breakup Medium. Again no gel. The show was directed by Greg Wanless and produced by Thousand Islands Playhouse in Ganaonque, Ontario, Canada.
- Comment by Kate Noel Artistry on May 11, 2012 at 5:10pm
- Comment by Ethan Krupp on May 10, 2012 at 10:06am
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The Winter's Tale at Bloomsburg University of PA. Our production set the Sicily sections in 1950's Little Italy in NYC and the seacoast of Bohemia in a 1960's northern California hippy commune in the late 1960's. The Lighting Designer, Bruce Candlish, used R77785 [Sharp Breakup (Medium)] along with other patterns on the cyc during the sheep shearing scene to accentuate the mood and create a festive atmosphere for the "party" that also captured the psychedelic vibes of the setting.
Shown here is Greg Hoagland as Autolcyus, the peddler. I was the Scenic Designer. Photo by Dawn Cureton.
- Comment by Nathaniel Jewett on May 9, 2012 at 5:44pm
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"The Blinding of Gloucester" Scene from King Lear at Boston University(part of "The Shakespeare Projects", a Keyword Violence Production)
I used R77960(Fire & Ice) with R25 from each side to create bloody claw marks on the back wall, underscoring the pain and violence that was a predominant theme in the production.
Photo by my assistant, Kayleigha Holten
- Comment by Hannah Gaydos on May 9, 2012 at 11:38am
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