Theatrical Lighting

  How do you control the lights?  Each lighting fixture has a DMX connection running through it. The DMX connection is then addressed to the lighting board. Once it is  addressed onto a channel and connected to the DMX connection correctly, all you need to do is type in the channel and give it certain commands to do as seen in the video above.  

Many technical issues While working on my projects for the auditorium, I ran into many problems. Over the summer our auditorium house lights were redone and our whole dmx system was changed. When I tried getting the lights to work they would just strobe and did'nt have a stable DMX connection. We come to find out that each DMX output station needs to be on its own channel on its own universe in order to be patched and connected to the light board correctly. I plan on fixing this issue on a weekend I am free with our technical director 

     Theatrical Lighting    Theatrical lighting has many different aspects to run a show, assembly, or any other events. In the Alden High School Auditorium we have an ETC ION which is a DMX powered lighting board which control all lights in the auditorium    There are many complex ways in order to make the lights work and in order for you to make a show. In order to make a show, you need to record every light segment. In our booth, we use our ETC ion to record every light cue, and then we convert it over to a simple program called "QLab" which can run a whole show with a click of a button on our I Mac.