Stage Lighting Basics Colors

We covered the basics of lighting fixtures in our article stage lighting 101 part 1.

Stage lighting basics colors.

If you decide to use colored light consider what colors will compliment your work. You can use it to blend colors fade lights in and out or even time the strobes to the tempo of a track depending on the system. The dmx controller allows you to control the intensity color and movement of every fixture in the chain. What problems or issues might we run into.

Understanding the basics about what fixtures are and how to place them so now how do we control them. A combination of dark and light colors on adjacent light fixture gives a very good colorful effect. It s a digital communication network used to control stage lighting and effects. These have become quite a rave recently despite their high cost due to the fact that they are low in power consumption clear and bright.

The previous techniques can be problematic for video as they tend to have shadows. Here s an exercise you can use to learn all of the color possibilities and make your head spin with wonder. Stage lighting basics at on stage lighting lots of links. This stage lighting technique comes in handy when video is involved.

Three point stage lighting uses two lights out front about 45 off axis and 30 up. Then the third light is placed behind and about 30 40 up and 60 70 off axis. Sit down at your lighting console with just rgb lights selected. The colors that you use on the fixtures set for stage areas should not clash but blend.

How do they work. Slowly over 10 seconds mix each of the colors above and fade between them slowly.