Saturday, September 29, 2007
The Future of Concert Design
Live Design: "When it comes to lighting, set, and projection design for concerts, there are a lot of technological firsts that happen on the road in our industry. While using hundreds of PARs for concerts used to be the latest and greatest in concert design, we've come a long way, from the introduction of moving-mirrors, to moving yoke lights, to the integration of video via media servers and LEDs."
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I think for once theatre is ahead of the game. I dont event have LED lights in my home, barely a few CFLs, and an old CRT television. Concerts nowadays have high powered LED lights and video screens acting as lighting effects... I thought it was cool to hook up the itunes visualizer to my tv set, nevermind use it as a main source of FX in live shows.
I think that we've known for some time that LED's were the next step for a lot of solutions but a lot of designers were skeptical about it. Now we've gotten to a point where they've gotten bright enough and are beginning to move into a new range of applications where they have evough punch for a stadium or are being used to get the full colour out of the backdrop.
Though I agree with both Bryan and Ryan I think that a huge issue with new technology in out business, which is mentioned in the article, is that it requires more policies to be taken into effect and it creates a bigger and harder wall to bypass in terms of jobs. Sure, we're in school now and we'll have jobs when we graduate but for people that can't afford school or don't find themselves in the business until it's "too late" it's not a very good situation.
It always seems that concerts and theatre are competing to always have the latest technology. Usually you wouldn't expect to see projections in theatre, nor would you expect to see moving lights in theatre, but nowadays it seems that theatre want to add more visual effect to the show to keep up with the technology in concerts.
I am very limited in knowledge about lighting design but I feel like there is a huge demand for them in entertainment these days. The quote in the article "that the industry doesn't seem like it's as welcoming to those who aren't academically backed or certified in some way" relieves me that we are studying at CMU for a better job in the future.
So all this means is that we will get to play with cooler gadgets, but at the same will have to do a lot more homework to make sure that those cool toys can tour with us or can be used in that country, or it will create another paid position on the production team to cover all of the regulation bases.
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