Stage lighting and music skills

Whether it is a large concert, variety show, or a small music party, the effect of rendering the atmosphere with lighting effects, accentuating the concept of music expression, and creating live effects has an irreplaceable role. Now there are a variety of effect lamps. Except for traditional tube lights, Backlights, spotlights, and effect lights include computer scanning lights, color-changing lights, moving head lights, as well as sky roses, luces láser, etcetera. In the face of such a wide range of lamps, how should lighting designers use them reasonably to express their ideals? What about lighting effects?

The effect lighting design relies on the imagination of the designer. First of all, it is possible to realize the effect only by thinking of the effect. If you can’t think of it, you don’t need to talk about the realization. The foundation of imagination is the understanding of music, because music is the basis and purpose of the design of lighting effects, that is, lighting effects are to better accentuate the music atmosphere and express music concepts, so let’s talk about how to use light to express and Set the music. Because the mood of music is colored, such as warm and passionate music, then the warm light can be red, yellow, and so on, and the gentle music in small tones can be used in cold blue light. This is well understood, that is, the synaesthesia of art, the expression of the same thing, different art categories are just different ways of expression, and the feeling of expression is the same. With the understanding and grasp of the mood of the music, we can first determine the general tone of the light, what kind of music uses what tone color of light. This is what we usually call the co-shooting of lights and music.
First of all, you must understand whether the beat of the music is four, three, or eight or six, and understand the strong and weak beats. You can use different colors of light and light strength to match the beat of the music. If the music is fast, That light doesn’t have to match every beat, its weak shots can be ignored, only strong shots are reflected, and the rest of the music can be reflected in the dark field. We can use the changes in the duration, intensity, color, and category of the lights to reflect the changes in note length, intensity, pitch, and tone. We divide the structure of light into physical structure and non-physical structure. Lighting designers often divide the tube light, back light, computer light, and color-changing light into different levels to install in different combinations to form the three-dimensional space effect of the light. This is the light. Physical structure (spatial structure); what is the non-physical structure of light? A piece of music consists of intro, interlude, main melody, sub-melody, etcetera. The light is also divided into different parts, different combinations of light, and different changes to reflect different parts of the music. We can make some lighting changes “tools” according to the needs of the rhythm and melody of the music, and then combine them into different ways to express them according to the various parts of the music. These different combinations of changes in lighting actions constitute the lighting Non-physical structure. So we say that the structure of music determines the structure of light is the non-physical structure of light. The colorful in the music, the SOLO of a certain instrument is a wonderful part of the song, the effect lighting should be particularly emphasized and reflected, so when designing the lighting effect, we should arrange some special lighting action changes for the special important details in the music. reflect. All in all, the design of effect lighting should be based on music, with the aim of rendering the atmosphere of music. Therefore, lighting designers must have a deep understanding of the structure and content of music in order to design satisfactory lighting effects.

Post time: 2020-04-11