When Lighting Designer Matthew Grenier helped his old high school upgrade to LEDs, he struggled with coverage issues. Rosco’s OPTI-SCULPT Filters enabled him to shape the beams to fit the space.
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What A Difference A Little Color Can Make
Stephen Arment, a High School Drama Teacher in Florida, shares his thoughts and feelings about the power of light and color in theatre after installing a fresh set of gels in his lights.
How To Make Your Own BlackWrap Ripple Effect
Rob Sayer and his students at Bath Spa University devised their own ingenious ripple generator to create a reflected water effect on stage using materials and equipment from their lighting lab.
4 Gift Ideas For Designers, Technicians and Photographers
Shopping for the stage technician, filmmaker or photographer in your life? Rosco’s Chad Tiller shares his favorite gift ideas, which are as thoughtful as they are practical.
Revealing Subtle Warmth With Bastard Ambers
Adam Murdoch put several of Rosco’s Bastard Ambers to work warming his stage as his lighting designs filled the voids of the other minimized production-elements in “Stripped-Back Shakespeare” at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Take Your Stage Into the Woods
Disney’s recent adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods for the big screen not only performed well at the box office, it’s also poised to capture three Oscars this weekend – including nominations for Dennis Gassner, Production Designer and Anna Pinnock, Set Decorator in the category of Best Production Design of a Feature-Length Film. Being…
We’ve Got A Machine For That – 10 Uses for Rosco’s Vapour Series Fog & Haze Machines!
Whether you’re lighting inside a nightclub, a theatre with a few hundred seats or Madison Square Garden, Rosco Fog Machines and Fluid provides the perfect solution for any atmosphere!
Spectrum Wavelengths: Green – Somewhere in the Middle of the Rainbow
Whether it’s used to create the verdant fields and forests of Oz or the Emerald City itself, the color green can be used to evoke emotion and create a time & place on stage. We’ll showcase this hue by focusing on three shows set in the land of Oz – The Wizard of Oz, The…
Russian Inspiration From The Bolshoi & Blade Runner
Thanks to the Sochi Olympics, the eyes of the world are getting a glimpse into Russia’s culture and heritage. Just as Bob Costas and Mary Carillo might introduce us to Russian culture in their broadcasts, we thought we’d share some insights with you into Russian theatre. Damir Ismagilov, chief lighting designer for the Bolshoi Theatre…
LitePads Center (and Back) Stage
We’ve shared several stories about the spectacular architectural installations featuring Rosco LitePads and other stories from filmmakers about how they’ve used LitePads on the sets of your favorite movies & television shows. This post will show off some creative ways LitePad has been used in theatre – including a backstage installation that illuminates theatrical line-sets,…