latest news headlines
Draft Guidance Document for Followspot Positions Available for Review
BSR E1.28, Guidance on planning followspot positions in places of public assembly, is available for public review on the ESTA website through January 14, 2008. The document offers advice on planning practical permanent followspot positions in theatres and arenas. Sometimes positions for followspots are less useful than they might be or are useless because they are placed so that obstructions keep the light from reaching performers, the passage to the followspot position is so tight that large equipment can't be moved into position, or there is too little power to operate a followspot suitable for the throw. The draft E1.28 document is intended to help people avoid these problems. The document and its supporting public review materials are available at http://www.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php.
In addition to being asked to review the document to see if it offers adequate advice, reviewers are asked to look for protected intellectual property in the draft. ESTA does not warrant that its standards contain no protected intellectual property, but it also does not intend to adopt any standard that requires the use of protected intellectual property, unless that property is necessary for technical reasons and can be licensed and used by anyone without prejudice or preference for a reasonable fee. Any protected intellectual property in the document should be pointed out in the comments.
For more information, please contact: Karl G. Ruling, Technical Standards Manager ESTA, 875 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1005, New York, NY 10001, USA telephone 1-212-244-1505 fax 1-212-244-1502.
26th November 2007
HEADLINES
news archive
search stories
FOOTNOTE: Select the news type you require in the red band above; this will enable you to see the current news stories from that section
© 1999 - 2012 Entertainment Technology Press Limited News Stories
