Comments on: Stage Lighting Tutorials – Stage Lighting 101 Review

By: mallik

mallik — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:59:32 +0000

Hey i am india i realy want to.know how muchlights must be used for foh depending on stage how calculate lights as foh cutlightht backlight n colours pls.suggest me

By: deepa

deepa — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:25:36 +0000

Im based out of zurich, switzerland and would like to know if there are any specific lighting courses with respect to dance. Am a performing artist and choreographer and am looking forward to learn the aspects of lighting for dance dramas (Indian classical dance)

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:27:28 +0000

I am a new modern dance choreographer who would like to take a short lighting course in the Wash., DC area.

By: subee

subee — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:42:12 +0000

what is colour mixing live on stage

By: harout

harout — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:55 +0000

thank you Rob, n thnx for your friend request!

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:25:51 +0000

Hi Harout, this should be too much of a problem for a dance show. If you were planning to project from the front, the image will obviously end up being broken up by the performers on stage, so rear projection (or some really careful planning of angles) makes a better job of it. The key to lighting the performers and not ruining the background is to use lighting angle that don't end up actually lighting the screen too. In most situations, this means top light (from straight over head) and side light / cross lighting (across stage) which is ideal for lighting dancers anyway. The other thing to control is the relative brightness between the projector and the performers, which usually means attenuating the stage light or getting a brighter projector. Thanks for your question.

By: harout

harout — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:57 +0000

hi, i need help with lighting along with projection… i’m in a dance group and we wanted to have a separate background with each dance, so we’re gonna have a special kind of a slide show with each dance. now what’s worrying us is that when we have the slide show via projector we’re affraid that it won’t be obvious with the stage lighting (because then it won’t be dark enough to see the screen). is there a special way/technique that will let us have both stage lighting and a backgroung via projector at the same time without causing the slide show not to be seen? (sorry if i made it sound complicated) i would realy appreciate your help.
thank you

By: Thomas c

Thomas c — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:20:30 +0000

This is wonderfull i like to get continues tutorials o n stage lighting

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:58:24 +0000

Does anyone know of any short lighting courses in the UK? Preferably in the North West?

Thanks

Matt

PS Sorry to add to the growing list of request for short courses around the world!!

By: David

David — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:30:49 +0000

A dimmer (dimmer pack) is the physical box you plug your lighting instruments into. Dimmer packs controls the voltage (and as a result the intensity) to an instrument and are addressable (this translates into a channel number) and are ‘daisy-chained’ together back to the light board.

The channel is a unique address number associated to each dimmer pack and often to each plug on a dimmer pack if the pack has more than one.

Useful Wikipedia links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stage_lighting