ABSTRACT
A festival-style lighting design is a generic design of fi ve primary, full-stage, color PAR washes; usually between 6 and 12 ellipsoidal refl ector spotlights (ERSs) for key light specials; a few bars of 4 aircraft landing lights (ACLs); several 8-light audience blinders; and 12 or more moving luminaires, normally a mixture of profi les and washes. There normally will be a straight 12-inch box truss upstage on two motors for backdrops and sometimes corporate sponsor logo signs that can be easily moved in and out to change with backdrops that the various groups carry with them. The festival system is intended to provide a generic lighting arsenal for all visiting lighting designers to use. With so many visiting bands and lighting designers, one generic system for everyone is the most cost-effective method for maintaining a lighting rig during the course of a festival season. There will be very few color fi lter changes, no truss confi guration changes, and, consequently, no rigging changes. In addition, if the touring artist does not have a lighting designer, usually the lighting vendor’s staff designer, who more than likely is the person who designed the system, will be appointed to create and operate the festival’s system for that artist.
