Festival & Outdoor Lighting
Main-stage and outdoor lighting that reads at scale and turns around fast between acts.
What it covers
Festivals are a different discipline to a headline tour. You are usually working on someone else's rig, with a changeover measured in minutes and a crew you met an hour ago.
- Working quickly and cleanly on a shared house rig
- Building a set of looks that survive a fast changeover
- Designing for daylight, dusk and full dark in the same day
- Liaising with the house LD and stage management
- Specials and signature moments that still land at distance
Reading at scale
Outdoors, subtlety disappears. Low-level states that look considered in a theatre vanish against a grey sky or a video wall. Festival looks need contrast, strong back light and enough saturation to hold up on a big screen and on a phone camera in row thirty.
The changeover
The practical craft is preparation: a show file that loads clean, palettes referenced to the house rig, and a plan for what gets cut first if the changeover runs late. A calm handover with the house team is worth more than any extra fixture.
Got a show coming up?
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