If you are taking your production out on the road, you will need to make sure that all of the equipment you use is compact enough to travel, yet still powerful enough to be effective.
When it comes to lighting for indoor or outdoor events, you can hire pretty much everything you need to ensure that your audience never misses a moment. In order to be sure that your mobile production is always perfectly lit and absolutely awesome looking, you will need to hire the right equipment for the job
Rigging
The first thing you will need to set on your mobile stage, runway or podium will be the rigging that holds you lighting in place. Lighting trees and pipework speaker stands are fully mobile and can be used with ease on the road. To ensure that your lighting trees or pipes are always safe, you should add extra support by way of sandbags at the base of each tree to prevent them from tipping.
Dimming
You will need to be sure that you have enough power to operate all of your dimming packs. Using a range of dimmer packs will allow you to have intensity control over your lights from a lighting console, allowing your lighting techs to create the affects you are looking for.
Because dimming packs run off of mains power, you will need to find out in advance where your nearest power source is. You can then run the power to your lighting trees using extension cords, before taping them down to hold the cable secure and take the strain off the power connection.
Lights
The most important part of the whole lighting set up is, of course, the lights themselves. When you are preparing a mobile lighting set up, you should still be able to produce professional lighting that is equally as impressive and effective as any major theatre or studio production. Using a mixture of profiles and spotlights, fresnels, pars, floods and beam you can create magical moods and effects, no matter where you are performing.
Consoles and Cabling
Once you have hired all of the light trees, dimming packs and lighting equipment that you need to take your production on the road, you will then need to think about how you are going to control it all. A DMX console will enable you to control the lighting, and make it dance to the music. If you aren’t able to control the lights yourself, you can also hire a lighting technician to come on the road with you.
Professional Lighting Hire from Frank Gatto & Associates
Our experienced lighting team can provide you with everything thing you need to take your production out on the road. From cables and consoles through to complex lighting equipment and designs. We can even send our experience and highly efficient lighting technicians out on the road with you. Call us today at 561-368-0101 to find out more.
Frank Gatto & Associates, Inc. are specialists in lighting for television events of all kinds. If you have an event that needs expert lighting, please call us today to see how we can help.
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