Lighting

 

Performance

In the performance part of the music video we intend to have the members on a small stage/ low platform in a minimalistic room. For the lighting we want to use a mixture of spot lights and stage washes for the stage area, the spot lights are going to be used to introduce each band member and as the song introduce there instrument they will be illuminated using an individual spot light . When the song starts to pick up we will use a stage wash to illuminate the whole band a merging them together instead of individual spotlights. The lights we will use to do this are some source 4 spot lights to do the individual spot lights.

 

For the stage wash we will use a industry standard theatre light called a Fresnel which comes with barn doors allowing the light to be narrowed down onto our small stage/platform to give a more realistic performance environment. These  light will be mounted behind and above the camera to make the angles and position of them correct for a performance area and also so there is a full coverage of light on the individual band members, these lights are a older style light as they are halogen light bulbs instead of the modern day 21st century  LED lighting. These lights will produce a warm white light (golden white) which is the stereotypical light colour for a minimalistic, indie/pop  artist stage lighting, we are also having this colour to give a warm and closeness felling to the performance element, the colour is made possible by using the old style of halogen lighting. Contributing to this lighting we potentially are going to have a row of lights behind the band point out towards the crowed to give the representation of the performance element and to make it more realistic for the viewer that they’re performing on a stage. For this we will use either use old fashioned par 56’s halogen par can with long noses on these will produce a warm white colour the same as the spots and Fresnel’s, however with these lights we have the potential to change the colour using a coloured plastic filter called a gel. If we are uable to use the Par 56’s we will use the modern day equivalent which is a LED version which used DMX control to change the colour so which we can use to make a similar colour to the halogen Par 56’s or a different colour like we would using the gells. Below is a picture of the effect these lights would create, we intend to us different colour to what the picture shows. To run all the lighting we will have the use of a dimable circuit board so we can get the right intensity of light this will be controlled by a DMX unit. Below is a diagram of how it will all be connected up and the lights