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For example, we offer ETC Source-4 pars and ellipsoidal light fixtures, LED multi-color pars and multi-strip light fixtures with built-in DMX dimming, cyc lights, moving light fixtures, dimmers, follow-spots, truss, lighting consoles, rigging, and special effects. We supply a variety of A-V products and services, including theatrical lighting equipment. If you need help buying, renting, or setting up stage lighting, contact Southwest Audio-Visual today. In addition, you will adjust the many qualities of lighting to create the ideal setup, modifying the lighting equipment’s intensity, color, position, direction, and more. For example, dimmers, lasers, and architectural lighting equipment may all come into play. To accomplish these stage lighting techniques, you can use a variety of products. Finally, revelation of form can help the lighting technician emphasize or intensify the shape of a character (their curves, angles, form) in order to invoke a particular feeling. It also helps performers, scenic elements, and props stand out as three-dimensional objects against the overall background. This makes the performer, their shape, and their movement the focus of the audience’s attention. If you want to highlight the form of a particular performer (a dancer, an actor, a musician, a speaker), you can use the technique revelation of form to make them stand out from their background. And in “Peter Pan,” the fairy Tinker Bell is not portrayed by an actor but a darting light. The audience interprets elements of the scene based on the lighting effects: matches lit by the man, the light from an open refrigerator door, etc. At one point, she turns off all the lights so that a man cannot see. For example, in the play “Wait Until Dark,” a blind women is terrorized in her own home.

Sometimes lighting can trigger the plot or even act as a character. Lighthearted performances, like comedies, often use bright and cheery lighting.

Typically, darker performances (in mood) use darker lighting and lots of shadows. Mood:Īlthough a playwright might contrast the lighting with the mood of the show for an interesting effect (setting a gruesome murder in a brightly lit garden, for example), most people use lighting to convey and reinforce the mood of the production. For example, you can use lighting to convey whether the action is occurring inside or outside, at day or night, in a stale and stuffy environment or in a magical, glowing place. If you want your performance to be located in a particular environment or at a particular time, you can use lighting to establish this. This can also be an effective way to distract the audience from something occurring in the shadows. Since the audience is only viewing one element at a time, they won’t miss anything important. For example, a spotlight might be cast on a single member in a crowd of performers, so that the audience knows who is speaking. Selective visibility refers to the ability of the lighting technician to show the audience exactly what they want them to see. By illuminating different parts of the stage or set, a light technician can quickly refocus the audience’s attention. Offering structure and form to the set, it can help set the stage and inform the audience’s thoughts about the scene, perhaps even changing their overall perception of the performance. Why not use lighting to convey the eerie, suspenseful mood of your play? Have you considered how the right lighting could refocus your audience’s attention during crucial parts of your concert? Plus, many stage lighting techniques can be used off-stage to light video shoots or provide décor for weddings and parties. Explore the possibilities to enhance your production.Ĭomposition lighting is often said to “paint a picture.” It enhances the set design, and in some cases, it may replace all scenery on stage. However, many productions require the use of more creative stage lighting techniques. Today we want to put a spotlight on stage lighting techniques. To light a stage for a concert, theatre performance, dance recital, or speech, you could stick to basic lighting that simply illuminates important elements of the stage.