Lighting a Night Parade

[John Sharaf]

HI Larry,

Where are you at? Presumably you’d want a vendor nearby!

JS

[Larry Zapotocky]

Hi John,

I’m in Central Pennsylvania. In the past the local businesses let us use their power. Each lighting bank had a max of 2100 watts which worked fine on separate 20 amp breakers. We light the block with 6 banks of these lights.

When you say vendor do you mean a lighting vendor?

Thanks,
Larry

[John Sharaf]

Yes, a lighting vendor would be a company that could do everything, including providing the units, crew, install, trucking, etc. to as little as just renting you the lights you need.

I’m in Los Angeles, and could do the job if you wee here, but considering your proximity ti NYC, there’s many vendors there that could accommodate you, not the least of which is PRG which is a gigantic lighting company with offices all over the world. I often also use Mandy.com to find local crews and facilities in remote locations like yours, and it’s often useful to find and build those types of relationships especially as you’re there too.

I used to light the Rose Bowl Parade for Good Morning America in Pasadena every year, until they decided it was too much money for the limited use, as it only showed live in the East Coast, because by air time the parade was beginning in the West Coast, and it was always a challenge and fun to light the big colorful floats, not to mention the Rose Queen herself!

JS

[Steve Kownacki]

Do a search for construction lighting. You can rent huge chimera-style softbox telescopic lights, I’m pretty sure you can get them withoutto a generator.

Steve

[Dennis Size]

Contact Craig Friedman (Craig Friedman Productions) in Scranton/Wilkes Barre @ (570) 430-5483, CraigFP@aol.com. He can supply all the gear you need (and crew if necessary). I use his company for all my lighting needs when working in northeastern to central Pennsylvania.

Dennis Size

[Larry Zapotocky]

Thanks Dennis, I will!