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Become a profesional concert and festival light operator

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.6

- Create
- design and prepare a professional busing lightshow for a concert
- festivall or theater situation.

What you'll learn

Create
design and prepare a professional busing lightshow for a concert
festivall or theater situation.

* Requirements

* You should allready have some experience as a light operator or light tec. I am not teaching how to use a console
* but teching the general concepts of working with lightconsols.

Description

What will you learn in this course?

I will show you three basic concepts how to work in concert, festival or theater situations when you have to prepare a lightshow in a very flexible situation, without knowing what kind of music will be there, later on stage. It is the daily business if you work as a light operator in a music club, for a renting company or in lots of festival situations.
This kind of working, called "busking" is one of the most exciting parts of a light operators job, because it is "live", it is in real time and there are no reheursals, no plan "b". In "busking" you are not only a light operator, you are also a part of the band, jamming and improvising with your lights toghether with the musicians on stage.
But there are also some tricks, how to prepare a busking show, to be able to react fast to everthing happening on stage. With a good preparation and a logical configuration of you light desk, you will be prepared to do a good job on every situation.
This course is made for everybody who allready got some skills with ilumination, also for profesionals light operator without that much contact with busking shows, for example traditional theater light operators.
I am not teaching how to program a special console, but I will show you the general ideas of planing a jam show, so, that you can adapt it to your console. In the videos I will use a MAonPC(tm) software to realize all the ideas of the busking concepts. You can download the software and the 3D simulation for free. But also you can adapt the ideas and follow programming on your own console. Every modern console, as Hog(tm), Chamsys(tm), Avolites(tm), MA(tm) etc. will work fine, because the concepts of jamming is universal.

Who this course is for:

  • Light operators without busking experience, semipro light operators, new professionals, light tecs from renting companys.

Course content

5 sections • 23 lectures

Introduction 2 lectures

Course Trailer Preview 00:36

This is the offical trailer of the course, not more not less than a teaser.

Course concept Preview 03:08

In this chapter I will talk about the structure and the general concept of this course.

Software setup 1 lectures

Download and prepare the software Preview 05:12

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.

Busking concept Number 1: Concert show 2 lectures

Concert Busking, general idea Preview 14:51

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.

Concert Show, how to programm. Preview 01:46:11

Ok, that is a very long video. We gonna programm the show from skratch. Have fun!!!

Gala Busking 5 lectures

Gala Busking, the theory Preview 07:40

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.

Gala Busking. Preparing the basics of the show Preview 47:18

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.

Glamour design Preview 01:08:31

Here we are programming the first design.

Cool Design Preview 54:20

Now we do a colder design, the "Cool" design

Rock n Roll design Preview 37:03

And now a classical Rock n Roll design

Festival busking 13 lectures

General idea Preview 12:29

Here is the general lighting concept for a small festival with fronttruss, centertruss, backtruss and some floors.

Setup and groups Preview 05:47

Here we take a look at our setup and create some groups

Presets Preview 24:03

Now it is time to make some presets.

Colors Preview 28:28

We create a matrix for our colors.

Positions Preview 38:18

Now we gonna make some positions for our movinglights.

Effects Preview 24:23

Let us do some effects fpr the spots, washs and beams.

Chase Preview 14:22

Now we programm some chases

Gobos Preview 03:37

A shot chapter dedicated at the gobos.

Second cue chase Preview 05:09

We add a second cue to our first faderwing.

Smoke, strobe, reset etc. Preview 10:29

Some special executors for smoke, reset, strobe etc.

Zoom Preview 03:36

We dedicate two executors for some zoom crossfades.

Blind programming Preview 09:57

A very powerfull technique is programming in Blindmode.

Practize tips Preview 07:40

Here are some ideas how to practize busking.