Moving light patterns

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DVX100Shooter

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I am trying to get a list together of some lights I need to rent and I need to know what kind of moving light shoots out various patterns on a wall or whatever. The light and the pattern appears to be moving or maybe just the pattern is moving through the light. I have seen this is nightclubs and in various music videos as well.
 
You name it and they have gobo wheels.

Martin, Clay Paky, Highend Systems, Varilite, SGM, Coemar

The real questions are, how much do you need? How much power do you have? How much space? How big of a surface?

I'll give you my current favorite lights, the Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300 HPE. It is a 300 watt light that has great output and speed. The best thing to me is that it is only 50 lbs. It is super easy to rig and has a rotating gobo wheel and a fixed gobo wheel. The patterns are much more theatrical based than rock and roll and I like them for corporate work much more. The other deciding factor is where you would rent the lights from. Since you just need a basic pattern projecting fixture pretty much anything would do. You may also need a controller depending on the situation so make you budget for that as well. I see your info says Delaware, if that is where you are looking for something I would suggest getting in touch with Mainlight. They are a Martin and Coemar house where I am going to get sub rentals more often now.
 
You could try a Source 4 elipsoidal with either a gobo rotator and / or an animation disk.

Check out Rosco for gobos ranging from plain stailess-steel to fancy textured and coloured glass. They also do rotators and disks, and some fairly fancy VFX units.

If you want your patterns sharp ETC (Who make the Source 4) do Extended Definition lens sets.

Dave
 
I was also looking at a light called Intellibeam. The place is pretty big but I am going there tonight to take measurements so I can decide where to place them and how much wattage I would need and how many I should get. I haven't heard of Mainlight. I was going to check with Lightaction and there is another rental house in NJ I was going to check with as well. In terms of power I was going to rent a generator if they require a lot of power. Thank you all for the suggestions. I will do some more research on them.
 
The I-beam is quite an old light. Are you getting them cheap/free? The Source 4 idea is a good one as well. Cheap and dumb, no console programming required. The biggest problems with the larger ML's is that many of them require 208v. They don't draw much power but they need the 208-240 range. This is true more so with older lights, many newer ones have auto ranging power supplies that can take 110-240v. Once you find out how much area you have to cover that will give you a good idea of what you need.

Here is a good resource for finding lighting shops:
http://www.epdweb.com/
 
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