Rosco Spectrum: When VIETV TV, a television network that provides cultural connection and news for Vietnamese families living in America, decided to build a new Houston studio, they based its design on their Dallas studio. John Ngo, the nationwide technology manager at VIETV who had previously designed the Dallas studio, was charged with conceptualizing the new Houston studio.
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I can definitely appreciate a non-solder LED tape that works. Over the summer, I had to install LEDs in a 14 foot tall standing wall shelf style cabinet (case) in the museum I worked at. The case had three windows that all had to be on different circuits. I was the only one at the museum that understood how LED strips worked (the museum was rather small, so the Installation Coordinator doubled as the lighting designer for all of the museum's galleries), so I was stuck with the task of buying, connecting, and installing the strips. Because the cabinet builder hadn't been given any communication about the led strips, there was barely enough space between the plexiglass and the grooves the LED strips were sit in. I didn't have access to solder or an iron, so I had to use cheap strip connectors and hope. I had to ask the cabinet shop to cut more grooves into the cabinet in order to make the LED strips work. In the end, the designers didn't end up using the strips. I can definitely appreciate a non-solder LED tape that works.
I always find it nice to read about Vietnamese media and designers since I, myself, am Vietnamese. I love that so much thought has been put into designing a news station specialized for Vietnamese audiences as many similar networks often create sets with shortcuts that make the overall aesthetic seem cheap. In addition to this, I love the way the set turned out. Though news stations are not as "fun" and "creative" as theatrical sets, I can definitely appreciate the work that goes into designing and building such environments. Over the summer, I worked as a carpenter for a news station company named FX Group. This station designed, built, painted, and installed all of their sets in house. From my experience, I can tell that, though the sets needed to appear professional, a lot of work was put into creating each anchor desk and screen wall. I found that there were many methods used that I had never heard of before that expedited the process and made are that everything that would show on camera was finished to perfection. I also think its interesting that this set was based on another because it creates a cohesive brand across stations of the same company.
I love things that make unnecessary tools obsolete. If there is ever a way that I can make something using a material that doesn't require another skill/tool to create I will always take that product. It's just easier the less tools you have the less processes required to do something the easier and more enjoyable it is to work with. Soldering is something that is becoming more and more common knowledge while at the same time more obsolete as things like Led strips move to a more user friendly experience. This is a challenge that I constantly face at home actually though where my tools and resources are somewhat limited to what I am capable of and what my dad is willing to pay for and put up with in the house. Soldering is not one of those things and I have had plenty of electrical projects in the past that I have wanted to do and had to find inventive and more painstaking ways to get around that issue. With things moving in this direction things like that will no longer be a problem for young and "limited" creators.
This is a nice piece of native advertising, it not even subtle about trying hide what it is. And that honestly really has started to annoy me these days how much Native Advertising that exist in the world these days. That being said LED tape seems like it is being used more and more often on a lot of the projects that I am working on these days, in fact I just finished a set where it was on every single flat to help accent it. The reason for this is probably because of pushed like this by Rosco to develop LED tape that is easier to connect and use, meaning that it is easier to intergrate into designs these days. I wonder what the next big thing in the light world would be after they have improved LED tape to a point of diminishing returns, it should be interesting at the very least.
LED tape has become a phenomenon in the past few years. It seems like it is everywhere – and especially here. Any time a designer wants to put lights inside a set piece, LED tape seems to be the default. And I can understand why. It is low profile and easy to install. The downside, as the article mentions, is that it does require a lot of soldering time. I can’t speak to price, but many times there isn’t much effort to retrieve it after the show and it is sometimes considered “disposable”. I can only imagine what it is doing to our landfills. The technology is impressive to be able to get the brightness, colors, and control in something so small. I would ask designers, again, especially student designers, do they really need it? Whether soldering comes into the equation or not, it is still time consuming to install though the process is usually easy.
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