Magical Glow

This is also a picture of a concert that my friend had been to. Instead of Arctic Monkeys though, this band was Taking Back Sunday. These lights make it appear as if an upbeat song was playing; I have often found this effect to be a great way to get the adrenaline of the audience flowing. I can also imagine some of these lights being on rotators–if not all of them, than at least a few. This is actually a really cool set up to me. The strong beams give it that quick laser like feel. Like my previous blog though, it looks as if there are very few front lights. Maybe the reasoning for this is to help conform to the already mythical status musicians’ walk around with. As we addressed in class, the use of back light can often push the objects out into the audience, or give it that halo glow. The effect these dim lights produce is the magical glow that make us buy clothes in a dressing room, only to find out we look terrible in them when we walk in the sunlight–a reference to a great Seinfeld episode. Overall, I love the limited amount of illumination, and I feel that although this is a relatively simple lighting design, it is quite entertaining.