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Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business (2nd Edition)

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by - James Moody

James L Moody

James Moody has over twenty seven years experience in theatrical lighting and has been a major influence in concert as well as television innovation.

Features & Benefits

Thoroughly updated with new sections on Computer Aided Drafting, moving lights and other new equipment and techniques. A real-life look at what a lighting designer does- from fighting for contracts to designing a show. Special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting.

Reviews

"This is a book you will read from start to finish, if you are serious about lighting. Then you will read it again."--Lighting Dimensions

Description

Concert Lighting is a comprehensive primer on lighting design for concerts. Placing special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting equipment and techniques, the book takes its reader on tour, covering every aspect of that experience for the touring professional lighting technician and designer. It also devotes several chapters to cross-media use of concert lighting techniques. Discussions of applications in film, video, the theatre, and the corporate world demonstrate the ways in which today's lighting designers cross over into other design areas.

This new edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new sections on computer-aided drafting, moving lights, hi-bred consoles, concert techniques in television production and features designs by some of the top concert designers in the industry. Concert Lighting is designed to assist students and professionals in understanding the unique fixtures, structures, special effects and design element used in concert lighting today.

Contents

Part One: The Concert Lighting Field: The Birth of Rock and Rise of the Concert Lighting Designer

Tour Personnel and Unions
Business
Pre-Production
The Design Stage
Cueing the Music
Road Problems and Scheduling
Road Safety
Dealing with Problems

Part Two: Equipment Designed to Travel: Technical Innovations
Lighting Consoles
Lighting Trusses
Lifts and Hoists
Moving Lights

Part Three: Practical Examples of Techniques: Designing to Fit the Space
Rigging with No Ceiling
A Look Inside the Design: Other Designers Talk About Their Designs
Concert Designers: Art versus Business
Overseas and South American Touring

Part Four: Cross-Media Use of Techniques: Industry Wide Benefit from New Developments
Concert Techniques in Television Production
Music Performance on Tape and Film
Postscript
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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Readership: Lighting professionals in live performance, TV, video, and film. Academic market for students in theatre, broadcasting, and recording arts programs.

Book/Paperback

Line Illustrations: 100
Measurements: 11 1/3 X 8 in
Pages: 279
Imprint: Focal Press

Publication Date: 28 October 1997
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Stock#: 2834
Publisher: Focal Press
Pub. Code: 0-240-80293-4
ISBN: 0-240-80293-4
Subject: Technical
Illus: 100
Pages: 279
Weight (lbs): 1.00
Year: © 1997
List: 47.95
Sale: $47.95
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