Get ready to pack your bags and go on tour with the most trusted and comprehensive text for concert lighting. With a special focus on rock and roll, learn how to use computer aided drafting, moving luminaires, learn about the people and the history that shaped the field and more. Expand your design possibilities by learning about cross-media use of concert lighting techniques and their application in film, video, theatre and the corporate world. From snagging those precious contracts to knowing the best equipment to use to designing a show, Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business covers everything you need to know.
Features
- New information on computer-aided drafting and visualization programs, moving luminaires, digital luminaires and media
servers, LED luminaires, new Protocol devices and more to keep you up-to-date with the most cutting-edge trends
- Everything a professional needs to know from fighting for contracts to the ins and outs of designing a show by current leadign
designers : Jeff Ravitz, Andi Watson, Paul Dexter and legendary Broadway designer Richard Pilbrow
- Learn how to light rock & roll concerts and use the same techniques in film, video, theatre and other medias
Section 1 Background and Organization
Section 2 Equipment Designed to Travel
Section 3 Designing with Touring Equipment
Section 4 The After-Word
"Jim Moody writes with authority, clarity, and conviction, and insists on keeping it fresh. Concert Lighting 3rd Edition updates his body of knowledge with the latest gear and trends in the industry. Moody's writing is easy to understand, not just because he knows his stuff, but because he's been living it for decades. Anyone who wants to understand any facet about the nuts and bolts of concert lighting should absorb this book into their personal library."
-- Steve Shelley, lighting designer, author of A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, and Field Template designer --
"Jim Moody is one of the captains of the concert and touring industry, having spent time on the road and at the head of the class leading new generations of aspiring professionals into the field. This, the third edition of Concert Lighting is the most up-to-date and complete work on the subject that you will find. Moody masterfully covers a lot of ground with just the right amount of depth and breadth of the subject, interjecting his own considerable experience with that of several major lighting designers and artists. If you consider yourself a professional or an aspiring professional you will devour this book."
-- Richard Cadena, author of Automated Lighting and Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician --
"This book is a great read, and I recommend it for those just starting out or for seasoned professionals. This book helps you keep your knowledge fresh and is a reminder that the industry is moving forward and that we should try to keep up with the advances that seem to be happening daily. This book should be considered a tool in the lighting technician and/or designer's toolkit. I highly recommend that you beg, borrow, or buy yourself a copy of this text."
-- Stephen Dean, CX Magazine --