Next, I had to figure out some key positions to highlight. We all know that models walk to spots on the runway, stop, pirouette and walk away. My client pointed out a half-dozen spots where the models would be doing this. I focused Lekos on these areas. I needed enough white light so that a model could stand out in those positions, despite the fact that there would be strobes, gobos and flashing colors going on all around them. For floor lighting, I wanted something different. Moving lights on the runway would be distracting as well as physically hot. Marquee-style runway lighting with little golf ball lights bore me. So I chose a bright LED fixture housed in a PAR-style body. These lights were the workhorse of the show. They were plain sexy as a color wash, but I had them running every kind of chase available when I needed more eye candy. Besides those, I placed a few wash lights on the stage to silhouette models and fill some dark holes in the set.
– From Nook Schoenfeld’s LD-at-Large column in the December issue of PLSN
