Spot Light

Spot Light

You there! Yes, there flowers seems to be calling you to its nest. Pollinate me! The bright yellow and spreading outer hand are waving and the centre deep orange are spotlighting on you. These flowers were shot in the Camp Cooriemungle again. Lots of flowers I must say. Anyone knows the name of this flower?

There are many general principles to lighting a stage, although to allow for artistic effect, no hard and fast rules can ever be applied. The principles of lighting include:

• Illumination: The simple ability to see what is occurring onstage. Any lighting design will be ineffective if the audience has to strain to see the characters; unless this is the explicit intent.

• Revelation of form: Altering the perception of shapes onstage, particularly three-dimensional stage elements.

• Focus: Directing the audience's attention to an area of the stage or distracting them from another.

• Mood: Setting the tone of a scene. Harsh red light has a totally different effect than soft lavender light.

• Location and time of day: Establishing or altering position in time and space. Blues can suggest night time while orange and red can suggest a sunrise or sunset. Use of gobos to project sky scene, moon etc

• Projection/stage elements: Lighting may be used to project scenery or to act as scenery onstage.

• Plot: A lighting event may trigger or advance the action onstage.

• Selective visibility: Lighting may be used to show only the areas of the stage which the designer wants the audience to see.

A dimmer is a device used to vary the voltage to the instrument’s lamp. As voltage to the lamp decreases, the light fades or dims. It is important to note that some color change also occurs as a lamp is dimmed, allowing for a limited amount of color control through the dimmer. Fades can be either UP or DOWN, that is increasing or decreasing the intensity. Today, most dimmers are solid state, although many mechanical dimmers still exist.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)