Concert Lighting
The Art and Business of Entertainment Lighting
4th Edition
Published on 19. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
362 pages
978-1-138-94291-2 (ISBN)
Description
Concert Lighting: Tools, Techniques, Art, and Business Fourth Edition provides readers with an updated look at how to succeed in the complex world of concert lighting design and technology. The authors have reorganized the book into three comprehensive and thoroughly revised sections, covering history, equipment and technology, and design, and containing new information on LED technology, pixel mapping, projection options, media servers, automated lighting, solutions for moving lights, DMX, and Ethernet problems, and designer communication and collaboration. This book also explores the cross-media use of concert lighting techniques in film, video, theatre, and the corporate world, highlighted with advice from master designers such as Bruce Rodgers, Cosmo Wilson, and Sarah Landau. From securing precious contracts to knowing the best equipment to use to design a show, Concert Lighting covers everything a designer needs to know about working in the touring industry.
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
34 s/w Tabellen
34 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 281 mm
Width: 217 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1448 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-94291-2 (9781138942912)
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Persons
Jim Moody is the Head of the Technical Theatre Program, Technical Director, and Lighting Designer for The Theatre Academy at Los Angeles City College (A Professional Conservatory Program). Considered one of the founders of concert lighting he received the first Concert Lighting Designer of the Year Award from Performance magazine in 1980. Active also in television, his work has been recognized with two Emmy nominations and one team award.
Paul Dexter has been the lighting and set designer for such concerts and concert tours as Rick James, Motley Crue, DIO, Ozzy Osbourne, and Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Rod Stewart. Paul is president of his own design firm, Masterworks Design, Inc. His recent activities include touring the world with REO Speedwagon as production and lighting designer, production designer for Heaven & Hell and architectural lighting designer for Activision Motion Capture Studios.
Paul Dexter has been the lighting and set designer for such concerts and concert tours as Rick James, Motley Crue, DIO, Ozzy Osbourne, and Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Rod Stewart. Paul is president of his own design firm, Masterworks Design, Inc. His recent activities include touring the world with REO Speedwagon as production and lighting designer, production designer for Heaven & Hell and architectural lighting designer for Activision Motion Capture Studios.
Content
1. The Rise of the Concert Lighting Field
2. Touring Personnel (Unions are a side note)
3. The Importance of Business, and Effective Communications
4. Pre-Production
5. The Design Stage
6. The Designer's WorkBox
7. Writing Music Cues
8. Life on the Road
9. Venues and Local Lighting Equipment Theaters, Amphitheaters, Arenas, Casinos,
Festivals, Fairs, and Racetracks
10. Working Outside the United States
11. Risk Assessment and Safety
12. Finding Solutions
EQUIPMENT DESIGNED TO TRAVEL
13. Lifts, Hoists and Roofs
14. Lighting Trusses
15. Lighting Consoles
16.Protocol, Control, and Ancillary Enablers
17. Conventional Lighting and Accessories
18. Portable Dimming and Distribution
19. Automated Lighting
20. LED Lighting
21. LED Screens, Projection and Media Servers
22.Lasers, Smoke and Pyrotechnic Effects
DESIGNING WITH TOURING EQUIPMENT
23. Master Designers
24. Designers' Perspective: Art vs. Business
25. The Artist Perspective (and the Producers')
26. Live Broadcast, Film and Video
27. Looking Forward
2. Touring Personnel (Unions are a side note)
3. The Importance of Business, and Effective Communications
4. Pre-Production
5. The Design Stage
6. The Designer's WorkBox
7. Writing Music Cues
8. Life on the Road
9. Venues and Local Lighting Equipment Theaters, Amphitheaters, Arenas, Casinos,
Festivals, Fairs, and Racetracks
10. Working Outside the United States
11. Risk Assessment and Safety
12. Finding Solutions
EQUIPMENT DESIGNED TO TRAVEL
13. Lifts, Hoists and Roofs
14. Lighting Trusses
15. Lighting Consoles
16.Protocol, Control, and Ancillary Enablers
17. Conventional Lighting and Accessories
18. Portable Dimming and Distribution
19. Automated Lighting
20. LED Lighting
21. LED Screens, Projection and Media Servers
22.Lasers, Smoke and Pyrotechnic Effects
DESIGNING WITH TOURING EQUIPMENT
23. Master Designers
24. Designers' Perspective: Art vs. Business
25. The Artist Perspective (and the Producers')
26. Live Broadcast, Film and Video
27. Looking Forward