1. Colour calls are used when rigging and they tell
us the following. The gel code column is the gel
number which corresponds to a specific colour.
If the designer asks for a specific gel, I can read
my colour call and know what gel it is. The
name column is the name of the gel so we
know what the gel is called and what colour it
is. For example plasma red. The light column
tell us what light the gel is for because different
lights have different gel frames so a gel frame
for a source 4 is different to a gel frame for a
selecon. The aim column is to tell us what the
lights are being used for. This can help us for
programming and focusing because we know
what the lights are being used for. And the
total number tell us how many gels we need.
This is useful if the lighting designer asks us to
do all the gels for the warm wash, we know
how many gels we need. Plus using all the
other columns, I know that the warm general
wash using gel 109 light salmon, the light is a
Minuette Fresnels, its for a warm general wash
and we need 6 of them.