{"id":1647,"date":"2018-09-22T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T22:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2018-09-22T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T22:10:40","slug":"i-finally-see-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/i-finally-see-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"I Finally See The Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay so anyone who knows me knows that as far as the AVL world goes, I specialize in audio and only audio. Sure, I can do some graphic design and snap a few quality photographs like the next person, but as far as lighting\u2026.. it\u2019s a no from me. I\u2019ve never really paid attention to the lighting aspect of this business, because honestly I just never really cared. I guess I just didn\u2019t think it was as important. This week, my entire mindset was catapulted out of the window.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my coworkers is kind of a lighting genius, and he let me get my hands on Vista this week. He started out with showing me a lighting program he set up for the song \u201cThe Greatest Show\u201d from The Greatest Showman<\/i>. I don\u2019t say this often but, I was SHOOK. The theater lit up with bold reds and blues and it literally transformed the entire vibe and feeling of the theater. The flashing of the lights synced up with the colossal beats at the beginning of the song, and it was honestly so breathtaking. I\u2019m pretty sure my jaw actually dropped while I was watching it. The crazy thing is, we were just in a giant empty room with a song playing! There were no people, nothing was going on onstage, it was just the song blasting and the lights doing their thing. I don\u2019t think my coworker realized this when he was showing me, but this setting was exactly what I needed to realize the power and effect that lighting can have. That song is already catchy and commands attention, but synced up to a room full of colorful lights takes it to a whole new level. The layout of the theater definitely helps as well, because there\u2019s a ton of light fixtures scattered between the ceiling and stage area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s an additional aspect of lighting that I really didn\u2019t consider until this week: haze. We always use haze machines during on stage performances, but I never really gave it any thought. I just thought it made the room a little foggy and dramatic, and that was the point. To put it briefly: I was wrong. Yeah, haze adds a nice foggy effect but I never realized what it does for lighting. Without haze, most lights are just shining bright and pretty, but they don\u2019t really travel. Adding a layer of haze in a room allows the lights to cut through it with colorful strobes and rays, and the haze just swirls in the spotlight. It. Is. Gorgeous. I can\u2019t believe I never noticed that the haze is really what makes that all possible.<\/p>\n

A couple days later I actually got to play around with Vista in the main auditorium, and honestly it\u2019s really cool. It\u2019s a super user friendly program and everything is visualized, which I love. I can clearly see which light is doing what, and when it\u2019s doing it. I learned how to make patterns, gradients, and how to gradually turn on certain lights to make different effects. Later, I got to help set up the lighting for an event we were having, which needed to be different shades of green. I loved that I finally understood the method of how lighting works, and it\u2019s definitely something I\u2019ll pay more attention to in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay so anyone who knows me knows that as far as the AVL world goes, I specialize in audio and only audio. Sure, I can do some graphic design and snap a few quality photographs like the next person, but as far as lighting\u2026.. it\u2019s a no from me. I\u2019ve never really paid attention to … Continue reading I Finally See The Light<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/creative-arts-internships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}