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.

Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business

Moody, James

Dexter, Paul

Humor & Entertainment

Focal Press

Get ready to pack your bags and go on tour with the most trusted and comprehensive text for concert lighting. With a special focus on rock and roll, learn how to use computer aided drafting, moving luminaires, learn about the people and the history that shaped the field and more. Expand your design possibilities by learning about cross-media use of concert lighting techniques and their application in film, video, theatre and the corporate world. From snagging those precious contracts to knowing the best equipment to use to designing a show, Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business covers everything you need to know.
* New Information on computer aided drafting and visualization programs, moving luminaires, digital luminaires and media servers, LED luminaires, new Protocol devices and more to keep you up to date with the most cutting edge trends * Everything a professional needs to know from fighting for contracts to the ins and outs of designing a show by current leading designers: Jeff Ravitz, Andi Watson, Paul Dexter, and legendary Broadway designer Richard Pilbrow * Learn how to light rock-and-roll concerts and use the same techniques in film, video, theatre other medias * Interviews with three established, multi-platinum touring recording artists

Routledge

Concert Lighting: The Art and Business of Entertainment Lighting

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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Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business

Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business

Concert Lighting: The Art and Business of Entertainment Lighting

Concert Lighting: The Art and Business of Entertainment Lighting