beginner lighting tech tips needed!

[Peter]

yep yep, that's great advice!

(dont worry about the "only do lighting for my school" from what i can tell, that is exactly what most people arround here do, I know it's basicly what I do! (although i run sound too)

oh ya, by the way, Welcome to the forums! Please feel free to look arround and post in other forums too!

 

[Lil1]

Thanks ^^

I do sound as well, and next year I'll be stage manager too, don't ask me how I'll do all three but somehow it shall be done lol

 

[avkid]

multi-tasking is a fine art!

 

[SuperCow]

Agreed. Though, I hear that stage managing and running the sound board symultaneously is hell.

 

[Lil1]

great, sounds like I'm going to have tons of fun next year lol

 

[Rudy]

I agree with Matt, who I work with at my school and that it is VERY easy to get carried away and write many different cues and try to get really advanced, but I would suggest that you don't use many fixtures in your cues to just keep it simple.

Adam

 

[SketchyCroftPpl]

I agree with all that above and subtle light changes can make a big difference. Also whenever you switch cues, unless theres a good reason for it, make sure that there is a fad so its not like this huge flash or drop in light going from scene to scene. We're used no fade before but only in a time when the scene had a ton of action and it was uses to kinda make things confusing cuase the light changed every few seconds. Other than that we always use a 3 sec fade in and fade our if its going to / coming up from black and normally a 1.5 - 3.0 sec fade if we're going between cues.

~Nick

 

[zac850]

Really, the only acceptation to this rule is if it is a musical and you want to "bump" the end note either up to a higher intensity with a special on the lead or into a black out (though often it takes the instruments about half a second to turn off anyway).

In general, for a drama, there is really no need to bump things on and off, unless going for a specific effect.

But, then again, the first rule in theater lighting is that there are no rules, just suggestions.