LightSoundJournal.com: Channing School, renowned for its commitment to creativity and excellence in performing arts, recently captivated audiences with its ambitious musical production of Hadestown. Known for its bold storytelling and immersive staging, the school’s Performing Arts team sought a solution that would bring the industrial, underground aesthetic of the West End show to life, while empowering students to lead on technical execution.
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I am fascinated by what this White Light company is. It seems to me that in the vast majority of situations this kind of high-level, little-e engineering generally has to be handled by the lighting manager on the show, rather than an external consultant. In my mind, throwing showbabys into a commercial headlamp and controlling it from a console is a pretty routine task, particularly in a citation where the venue already had a Multiverse system.
While this might seem an easy task to me, it does take a knowledge of industry tools that I may take for granted, and a basic understanding of electrical engineering to control the LEDs. I think I sometimes take it for granted that I am in school for Electrical Engineering as well as theater, meaning that I don’t understand a normal person’s lack of understanding of basic electrical engineering concepts. In that world it does actually make sense for a consultant to be able to come in and explain these things to someone who otherwise wouldn’t be able to make these effects.
Now exposed to a lot of the top high-tech theater spaces, I feel like the need to integrate this technology into more theaters is really helpful to the overall production process and also to any educational purposes. The point that the theater manager from the Channing School mentions is super crucial to the future theater industry: “This innovation not only elevated the visual impact of Hadestown, but also gives us sustainable, reusable tools for future productions.” Part of the reason why new technologies continue to shape our industry is that we can move to a more sustainable path that won’t keep making theater a wasteful process of spending materials on a single-use arts piece. I really wish that our high school had this perspective of viewing theatrical arts, luckily I worked myself into this field, and am now exposed to what I desire to learn more about. The way that LEDs are taking over most of the industry’s lights system is really innovative and allows for more and more creativity behind lighting design.
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