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Top Ten LD Tricks

This post originally written for my friends at Elite Multimedia. It’s hard to be in this industry for a while and not accumulate a wide range of tricks, subtle insider knowledge, and other arcana which collectively fall under the umbrella of “experience”. These are the sorts of things it would have been valuable to know when I was first starting out; things I wish someone had told me. And so now, I pass on my top ten ideas and tricks to you, dear readers. 1) Advance your show No seriously, advance your show. If you show up to a venue and that front color is Rosco 80 instead of 383 and your artistic vibe is all thrown into a tizzy… Read More »Top Ten LD Tricks

Lighting With Video

In a recent LD@Large, John Featherstone spoke of his distaste for the trope of the lighting versus video mentality that pervades parts of our industry. Any production where IMAG is used needs to have a crew that understands the intricacies of lighting for not only the stage, but also for video. I’ve worked with tours and productions that use IMAG many times in my career, and these are some of my strategies for dealing with lighting for video from an LD’s perspective. On my current tour, I have a pretty awful scenario as far as mixed sources are concerned. I have some 700-watt wash movers, some RGB LED washlights without a white emitter, as well as some standard 1200-watt spots… Read More »Lighting With Video