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So, I've got a Bard in Pathfinder Society who is fast approaching fourth level, and I've been thinking about what second level spells to take. Glitterdust would obviously be a strong choice, but based on my (admittedly limited) experience with subtier 4-5 adventures, I'm not sure I'm going to get much use out of it as a counter to invisibility. For that reason I'm strongly tempted by Pyrotechnics and it's absolutely amazing blinding effect.
Now, I'm not too worried about having a source of fire handy; in addition to the usual torches and campfires and so forth, I frequently adventure with an alchemist who likes to set people on fire with his Exploding Bombs. My bigger concern is that, with the huge area on the Fireworks effect, I'm just as likely to blind all of my allies with the spell as my enemies. After studying the spell, however, a thought occurred to me.
According to the text of the spell, anyone without line of sight to the fire I target with pyrotechnics is unaffected. As far as I can tell, that means that if I have a friendly arcane caster create a Silent Image of a wall or a screen or somesuch that blocks my allies' line of sight to the fire the alchemist made, I could then cast Pyrotechnics and only risk blinding myself. I have a wand of Silent Image that I can hand off for the duration of the scenario, and the Sorcerer could let the illusion drop on the following round and carry on as normal.
So, my question is, would this work, or would the light from the Pyrotechnics spell somehow negate the illusion's ability to block line of sight? Feel free to comment if you have an opinion as to whether or not you think the effect would be worth the two standard actions, or any suggestions for other ways I could use the spell that I might not have thought of.