Nov 25 2008
Lighting The Stage
The flood is the most basic type of lantern that is made up of a lamp in a reflector box with no lens. There is no control when focussing a flood all you need to concentrate on is the direction. This would probably be ideal for our production as it is so basic and easy to use. However on the down side the flood produces a lot of colour though the shutters can be closed or open accordingly you do have to be careful not to get too much light from the flood.
The Fresnel is a soft edged spotlight that gives more control over beam angle compared to the flood. The Fresnel is a good light to use in conjunction with some other lighting. We want warm social ambience effects in our production we could achieve this by using a warm red/orange colour gel. We want a range of different colours in our production, but mostly warm colours like orange and red’s will look good for what we want to achieve. Certain areas of the stage will need more colour than others we can achieve this by fading in and out. We do not want any part of the production at any time to go to black. When the scene has come to an end fading can be used to light another area where the scene continues. For example we will be going back and forth from interviewer to contestant.
