Synopses & Reviews
Concert Lighting is a comprehensive primer on lighting design for concerts. Placing special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting equipment and techniques, the book takes its reader on tour, covering every aspect of that experience for the touring professional lighting technician and designer. It also devotes several chapters to cross-media use of concert lighting techniques. Discussions of applications in film, video, the theatre, and the corporate world demonstrate the ways in which today's lighting designers cross over into other design areas.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new sections on computer-aided drafting, moving lights, hi-bred consoles, concert techniques in television production and features designs by some of the top concert designers in the industry. Concert Lighting is designed to assist students and professionals in understanding the unique fixtures, structures, special effects and design element used in concert lighting today.
Thoroughly updated with new sections on Computer Aided Drafting, moving lights and other new equipment and techniques.
A real-life look at what a lighting designer does- from fighting for contracts to designing a show.
Special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting.
Review
"This is a book you will read from start to finish, if you are serious about lighting. Then you will read it again."--Lighting Dimensions
Synopsis
Concert Lighting is a comprehensive primer on lighting design for concerts. Placing special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting equipment and techniques, the book takes its reader on tour, covering every aspect of that experience for the touring professional lighting technician and designer. It also devotes several chapters to cross-media use of concert lighting techniques. Discussions of applications in film, video, the theatre, and the corporate world demonstrate the ways in which today's lighting designers cross over into other design areas.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new sections on computer-aided drafting, moving lights, hi-bred consoles, concert techniques in television production and features designs by some of the top concert designers in the industry. Concert Lighting is designed to assist students and professionals in understanding the unique fixtures, structures, special effects and design element used in concert lighting today.
Thoroughly updated with new sections on Computer Aided Drafting, moving lights and other new equipment and techniques.
A real-life look at what a lighting designer does- from fighting for contracts to designing a show.
Special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-266) and index.
Table of Contents
Part One: The Concert Lighting Field: The Birth of Rock and Rise of the Concert Lighting Designer * Tour Personnel and Unions * Business * Pre-Production * The Design Stage * Cueing the Music * Road Problems and Scheduling * Road Safety * Dealing with Problems * Part Two: Equipment Designed to Travel: Technical Innovations * Lighting Consoles* Lighting Trusses * Lifts and Hoists* Moving Lights * Part Three: Practical Examples of Techniques: Designing to Fit the Space * Rigging with No Ceiling * A Look Inside the Design: Other Designers Talk About Their Designs* Concert Designers: Art versus Business * Overseas and South American Touring* Part Four: Cross-Media Use of Techniques: Industry Wide Benefit from New Developments* Concert Techniques in Television Production* Music Performance on Tape and Film* Postscript * Bibliography* Glossary* Index