Lighting Comparisons

Dance Show Lighting

“Dancers live in light as fish live in water”

L.E.D Parcans to create a chase of colours, to compliment the theme of the show, I would use this because you can use different variations of colours.

Moving heads, used for solo performances to highlight that one person. This is so they can be lit while they are moving around the stage.

The designer would have to liaise with the choreographer so that the dancers could step into the light should they need to.

The side lighting used when lighting a dance show 

Dance may begin with sidelight, but that is not to say that other options are unavailable to the designer. Back lighting, top lights, front light and foot lights should all be considered part of the designer’s tool kit. In addition to all these, lighted drops and cycloramas play a critical role in dance lighting.

Back lighting and top lighting often play a very prominent role in dance. Because the primary lighting angles keep the majority of light on the dancer and off the floor, the floor is left relatively dark. From this place, the designer has at their disposal any combination of overhead lighting positions to design shadows and patterns on the floor itself.

Shop Window

The aim of lighting a shop window is the grab the customer’s attention as they are walking past (or to prevent them from walking right past).

To grab the customer’s attention, you lighting display needs to stand out from the general mall lighting. Most malls use an even, bright fluorescent lighting. If you use the same style of lighting for your display, no one will notice and you will be lost in the back ground of the rest of the mall. When lighting for a shop window display it is crucial that you hide all of the fixtures of the lights. If you don’t the display will very easily look tacky.

Music Concert

The aim of lighting for a music concert is to create a huge atmosphere, you will want to light the performers from behind, and this would normally be done using floods. As well as using the floods as backlight on the band it will also be used to light the audience. This will give an amazingly powerful feeling to the audience as well as having moving heads that can be programmed or cued to fit with the music that is being played. This will obviously be very fitting with the music, a variety of colours being used can be semiotics, in a rock concert the colour red could be used a lot as well as it being dark in the area the concert is happening. This could be seen as quite an aggressive colour, which during the concert could be quite effective and appropriate. Chases of light can be very effective as well which during a fast part of a song or ‘drop’ can really appease to the crowd.