The Dark Knight Rises Real Bat-Signal?

[ComicStalker]

Since it was used in the Nolan Trilogy. Does a floodlight (Batsignal) actually work in real life? What I mean is, if you took a huge spotlight like the one typically shown in Batman movies and put a bat symbol on it like shown, would it actually create a bat symbol in the sky? Would you be able to make it out? Or would it be all blurry?
Sounds like a job for Mythbusters...

 

[SuperFerret]

You wouldn't. You'd get a spotlight with maybe a dark blur in the middle. A projector is more like what the signal would need to be.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Yeah, they show in The Dark Knight what it would look like, a mess, which is why Gordon was able to pass it off as a "defective piece of equipment".

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

They attempted to use one for real if I remember Nolan saying somewhere, and it just didnt work.

 

[Brother Jack]

Yeah, they show in The Dark Knight what it would look like, a mess, which is why Gordon was able to pass it off as a "defective piece of equipment".

It actually looks much better in the movie than it would in real life even though it's messy.

 

[Fudgie]

It actually looks much better in the movie than it would in real life even though it's messy.

It would want to for a movie. Realism or not.

 

[Nizzemancer]

You could probably get a sharper bat symbol in the sky if you used lots of laserspointers instead of one large light though, the reason it's so fuzzy is because the light spreads, with a bunch of lasers you'd get a lot more focus I think. Then again unless you have something to project it on it'll probably be fuzzy anyway so...

Still, when Batman sees the big spotlight on the police HQ's roof shining I doubt he cares wether it's projecting a bat, cat or a mermaid, he'll get the jist of it...