AKICOLJ - stage lighting/band lighting ...
... at the filkcons (and even at the smaller science fiction conventions) there are times when a small, portable, low power lighting system would be great, just to fill a small stage with white light ...
... for example at both the UK and German filkcons recently it was obvious that the hotel/venue room lighting was insufficient for video/photography without flash, and also it helps to "present" the performers.
But in many of the small venues we're sharing a single ring main with the PA system, mixer desk, recording equipment, possibly guitar amps etc. so sticking a couple of kilowatts of lighting in there is going to be a *bad* idea.
So anyone have any useful advice/experience? What should we be thinking about in terms of lamps, gels, controllers, T-bars, cabling ... and in particular, would something like a white LED Par 64 be a suitable lamp? Too big? Too much drain? Too tightly focused to throw light from a short distance away?
And the performers don't want to be blinded by stage lighting and not able to see the audience ...
... for example at both the UK and German filkcons recently it was obvious that the hotel/venue room lighting was insufficient for video/photography without flash, and also it helps to "present" the performers.
But in many of the small venues we're sharing a single ring main with the PA system, mixer desk, recording equipment, possibly guitar amps etc. so sticking a couple of kilowatts of lighting in there is going to be a *bad* idea.
So anyone have any useful advice/experience? What should we be thinking about in terms of lamps, gels, controllers, T-bars, cabling ... and in particular, would something like a white LED Par 64 be a suitable lamp? Too big? Too much drain? Too tightly focused to throw light from a short distance away?
And the performers don't want to be blinded by stage lighting and not able to see the audience ...