LOAD OUT One of the happiest times of any show is the completion of load out. Especially if it is complete before last call at the nearest bar. However, load out is also, in my opinion, is often an overlooked event of show planning. By organizing your load out in the same fashion as your […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Broken lights are a nightmare. Moving lights are more so because they are complex machines that seem to never break down in an easily accessible location. Unless you have a magic wand in your toolbox, you will encounter broken moving heads somewhere in your lighting life. […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Building up anticipation is a powerful tool. You hear it in music with the lead up to a crescendo, you see it in a suspense movie, you read about it in great works of literature. But…you are supposed to also see it in lighting. I. Start […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Since my son was born 6 years ago, I have had a lot of experience with “some assembly required,” then having to show him how to use the thing that I just spent way too long building. Reading the manual helps a lot with situations like […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Over the past few years, we have covered a really wide range of topics. I don’t think we have ever covered video lighting. So, with no further ado, we proudly present, [insert drum roll here] … lighting for video. There are a few commonalities in how […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional One of my favorite lines from “The Breakfast Club” is “It’s an imperfect world. Screws fall out all the time”. Truer words have never been spoken. If you ask any seasoned show technician, they will tell you that they remember more shows that went wrong than […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional As a protocol droid, C3P0 is fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. As a lighting industry professional, I feel like we need to be competitive with that number. I’m not saying that we need to be able to speak and understand so many languages, […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that over the past 20 years. Too many times to count, that’s for sure. However, there are some simple and easy ways to make sure that the tools and gear you showed up with at the job […]
Written by Product Engineer for CHAUVET Professional Anthony Chiappone. Over the course of the last 18 months, LED video wall has become a necessity to large and even medium shows. With this growth, I’ve observed that video editors and video wall specifiers are struggling to keep up with the large variety of video panels in […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional By now, you know what kind of show you are doing and what it is going to look like. The plot is finished up and all of your gear is in pretty rows of road cases on your show site. Now what? Here are a few […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I love it when a plan comes together. We are almost done with the rig for InfoComm. Again, preshow planning has proved that going over and over (and over) your plans is time well spent. Having five days to load in doesn’t hurt either. Having this […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional When we left our heroes, they were sitting at the front of a theatre trying to decide — to pixel map or not to pixel map? Ideally, you want to do both, but let’s hope that this decision was made weeks ago during pre-production. The Wall […]