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Creating a gobo with a transparency projector

Creating a gobo with a transparency projector

From the course: Video Gear: Lighting

Creating a gobo with a transparency projector

- Hi, I'm Professor Ravi, and today in math class, no, I'm kidding. This is just so funny. - This is so old school. This brings back so many memories of people writing with the pens on the transparency sheets. - Yeah, we have an overhead projector, and if you're old enough, like Rich and I, we had these in class instead of fancy flat screens and touch boards and all that kind of stuff. But, Rich, this is a practical thing to have on set. The overhead projector, of course, literally just looks down on what is on this light table, and then projects it onto something up here, and of course, that could be a projection screen. But in the case of doing productions, you could use this as sort of a digital gobo, or a sort of gobo light, or another way of doing it. - What's happened here is I've just taken the logo into an application like Photoshop or Illustrator and made it negative, white on black, and then just printed it out. What we have here is actually five or six transparencies, the…

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