Let’s face reality: Video elements have become implanted on most touring shows and all the industrial shows I work on. If you’re an LD and you haven’t jumped on this wagon yet, you’re late. I am not a huge fan of all this technology. I still prefer good theatrically-lit scenes as opposed to high-tech gadgetry, but I would be ignorant to ignore it. It’s fun. But why am I picking and choosing video content, let alone creating it now? I once thought set design was complicated and best left to professionals who do this for a living. Show me the set and I will then design a lighting rig to illuminate it. Those rules have all changed as well. What’s happened to me in recent years is that I will show some lighting concepts to an artist, and the next thing I know, they are asking me what their set will look like.
– From Nook Schoenfeld’s LD-at-Large column in the March issue of PLSN
