How To Place Your Lights When You Can't Hang Anything (5 Minutes to Better Lighting) 

I agree, i also like side lights. They can be challenging when the stage fills up with people, they can block the the light completely or create some distracting shadows on the opposite walls. I try to balance with a side light on the other side. if your not careful the light showing up on opposite walls can really diminish the focal point of the stage and if your have up lighting near by it can interfere with that as well. thanks for the great video

If you're setting up an on-stage PA as well, a pair of 6-7 foot speaker stands at the front corners of the stage can serve double-duty as vertical trusses. With a pair of pole clamps, you can mount one or two vertical strip lights on each speaker stand, angled backward to illuminate the backline. If your speakers have screw holes on top, you can use them to mount lightweight COB or moving head LED's, pointed downward toward the center of the stage. Add some uplights next to the wedge monitors, and you have pretty much the whole stage covered.

Bro, what software did you use in this video?

I’ve worked with several bands in the last couple months that use zoom washes with moving heads on 8 ft towers. I’ve wanted to use sides but haven’t this year. I have had bars of fixtures sitting on the back stage pointing at the ceiling. I had 8 beams on the back truss not leaving much room for static wash so I had them on the ground where the beams shot through. When the beams were frosted out, it made some awesome crossing patterns.

At the mo I'm looking at Building Some A frames with a ridge bar...out of Q-Clamps and Staff Bars as a lot of venues I use don't have a Lighting Rig.....But I'm thinking about Building them up to 4 to 8 feet wide and anything up to 8 - 10 get high and they should be strong and stable enough to take multiple moving lights which x 4 - 6 would be a 100kg plus dynamic load....!!!! However if it's anywhere near 100kg dynamic load then I'm def going to be able to swing off it before I trust either my lights to them or anything anywhere near that audience....!!!! But Short of Truss which is really Expensive even just to Hire or Tank traps which are expensive to buy & have their limitations in terms of loading as well although ladders with 2 x Tank traps def look pretty good and stands which just aren't any good for Dynamic loads....this is the only solution that I have come up with which I seems to be anywhere near being either viable or cost effective....And which hopefully should have at least some of the positive attributes or using a standard lighting rig in terms of simplicity height and loadbearign capacity......Will feed back as soon as They're Built But Would love to hear if anyone else has any other ideas too....!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Forget erecting trusses. In India the auditoriums charge you like between 1500-4000$ to book the hall for a show, but they wont provide you even chairs for artists to sit backstage or in the wings, during setup or rehearsal or just plain you've arrived at the venue, you need to sit on the ground or they ask the Booker to bring their own plastic chairs. For plastic chairs which are $4 a piece. Such cheap mentality is that of Indians. Which is why not many international stars come to our country to perform.

Do spot lights usually come with a mounting bracket? I’m wanting to just mount them directly to the ceiling.

@2:30 - Before redoing the lighting in the youth auditorium at my church, we had set two 36x10W wash units on the sides (one on either side) like that on trussing with a base to sit on as side washes and it gave a nice look as near sidefills.

Thank you sooo much for the video😀 it has given me soo many ideas and insperation. You are soo good to do such videos😀

I like this as I do the Full Moon Fest in Phoenix AZ. This is the problem I have at the live music stage...

another cool trick is to mount the spot or front lighting on the speakers tops, or backs of them on speaker poles too that's what i do and works great

You literally moved lights into the air in your example. Not helpful at all

Great video, thanks. It is nice seeing the results like this. It would have been nice to see the results if the lights were on the floor. Without mounting hardware that is where they end up.

What are you using for the 3D models?

What type of lighting are you using for the side lights? Our church wants to do an open mic/jam event and we are trying to light our old school stage in the fellowship hall upstairs. Our budget is small. We'd love a bit of a retro vibe. It's the first event of this type we are doing. Thanks!

Hey David, I placed moving head wash LEDs as side lighting for my stage. They are about 4 ft high right now and the musicians are complaining about it blinding them. Any ideas?

very nice

What software is this and is it free?

whats program you are using, illustrator?

thanks

thanks for you great video. is it safe to mount moving heads sideways? i've always wondered if that will be ok for the motors etc..

The ceiling of our church is low, so what kind of moving lights should we use?

I've got 2 Chauvet Gig Bar Move 2 trees for our band. Where do you recommend putting them on stage? thanks!

what is the program you made this named?

What software is that?