Monday, February 4, 2013


Yesterday I watched the Super bowl and in the beginning of the third quarter the lights went out. A statement was release saying a piece of equipment monitoring electrical load sensed the abnormality and opened a breaker, which cut power off for a moment. This is something that could happen in theatre, but I wonder in what kind of situations in theatre, can you have a light/device that is drawing to much energy and what ways would you fix the problem? In Beyonce halftime performance at the Super Bowl a lot of media screen were being used. Does media screen make it harder for a lighting designer or does it just add on to their designer or is it even part of a lighting designer design. Knowing that Beyonce performance was more of a spectacular I feel the media screens did not really affect the lighting designer, but this would be different if it was a play or musical.

2 comments:

  1. Screens only have an impact if they are on the same plane as the performer then they have a huge impact - we have to keep light off of them but still light the performer, the screens act as a cyc, etc.

    Many scenic and lighting designers are becoming projection designers as well

    We should talk more about lighting and projections

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  2. Yes can we please talk more about this, because I have been becoming more interested in projection designer.

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