Unlock the secrets of creating captivating lightshows in dynamic live environments such as concerts, festivals, and theaters with our comprehensive course, "Mastering Live Lightshows: The Art of Busking." Whether you're a seasoned light operator or a budding enthusiast, this course will empower you to excel in the exhilarating realm of live performances.
Unlock the secrets of creating captivating lightshows in dynamic live environments such as concerts, festivals, and theaters with our comprehensive course, "Mastering Live Lightshows: The Art of Busking." Whether you're a seasoned light operator or a budding enthusiast, this course will empower you to excel in the exhilarating realm of live performances.
In this course, you'll delve into the essence of "busking," a skill crucial for light operators in venues like music clubs, festival stages, and theaters. Busking is the art of creating live lightshows on the spot, adapting instantaneously to the music and the performers without the safety net of rehearsals or predetermined plans. Imagine yourself as an integral part of the performance, synchronizing your lights in harmony with the musicians on stage, all in real-time.
What You Will Learn:
Fundamental Concepts: Explore three fundamental concepts essential for creating adaptable lightshows in unpredictable live settings.
Busking Techniques: Master the art of busking, learning how to improvise and synchronize your lights seamlessly with live music performances.
Effective Preparation: Discover tricks and strategies for preparing a busking show, ensuring you can respond swiftly and creatively to any situation on stage.
Universal Applicability: Learn principles that are applicable across various lighting consoles, such as Ho(TM), Chamsys(TM), Avolite(TM), and MA(TM), allowing you to adapt the techniques to your specific setup.
Software Proficiency: Utilize MADot2onP(TM) software for hands-on practice, although the concepts taught are easily transferable to other software and hardware setups.
This is the offical trailer of the course, not more not less than a teaser.
In this chapter I will talk about the structure and the general concept of this course.
We download, install and prepare the software and the 3D simulation and load the first show into it. If you work with your own console, you also can skip this chapter.
In the attachement you will find the starting showfile "concertbusking.show.gz" for the next chapter. Follow the instructions in the video to load this file.
The first busking concept is a typical "daily bussines" job. A concert stage with fronttruss, backtruss and 4 floors. Here, in this video I will explain the general idea of the show.
In the attachement you will find the empty show with all patch, so you will be able to create this show from 0. The finished showfile will be availeble in the next chapter.
Ok, that is a very long video. We gonna programm the show from skratch. Have fun!!!
Here we got a stage with a lot of traditional fixtures, as fresnel, PAR64, profiler. Also some movinglights. In the attachement you will find the Showfile with the patch.
Here we gonna prepare the basic elements of the show. The general frontlight, some focus with profiler on the musicians, a reset button and so on.
Here we are programming the first design.
Now we do a colder design, the "Cool" design
And now a classical Rock n Roll design
Here is the general lighting concept for a small festival with fronttruss, centertruss, backtruss and some floors.
Here we take a look at our setup and create some groups
Now it is time to make some presets.
We create a matrix for our colors.
Now we gonna make some positions for our movinglights.
Let us do some effects fpr the spots, washs and beams.
Now we programm some chases
A shot chapter dedicated at the gobos.
We add a second cue to our first faderwing.
Some special executors for smoke, reset, strobe etc.
We dedicate two executors for some zoom crossfades.
A very powerfull technique is programming in Blindmode.
Here are some ideas how to practize busking.
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