ABSTRACT
Lighting paperwork is a living thing continually evolving throughout the production process until opening night. Focus charts, sometimes called “conventional focus charts,” describe the focus for every conventional and static fixture in the show. Their purpose is to enable the head electrician to be able to refocus a fixture accurately without the designer or assistant present. For manual followspots, the word “frame” is used to indicate which color is desired. This is because manual followspots house their color in “boomerangs” that hold typically six individual gel frames within one mechanism. Differently colored gels or gel and frost may be combined within a single frame if the designer prefers a specific color combination, but keep in mind that frost combined with color eliminates the opportunity for hard-edge spots. When a malfunctioning moving light is replaced, if the new fixture is hung level in the same orientation as the original, the focus of the new unit can be fairly accurate.
