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in this video you are going to learn the
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four crucial steps to achieving
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professional lighting design for your
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lighting without further ado let's dive
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into the lesson
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in this lesson you are going to learn
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about lighting theory and best practices
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it is so important before you start
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putting together a lighting system and
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using control software that you
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understand the foundations of lighting
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theory you guys know we are big on this
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if you've taken any of our other courses
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in worship ministry school like our
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audio courses it's all about getting the
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fundamentals right before you try to get
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all fancy because that's not going to
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end up well for you if you skip the
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fundamentals so that's what this lesson
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is all about let's talk about lighting
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objectives for the local church what is
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the purpose of a lighting system in the
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context of a worship gathering both
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in-person gatherings and online
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gatherings there's really two objectives
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in my opinion number one illuminate
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subjects make sure you have adequate
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light so the congregation can see the
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pastors worship leaders
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the rest of the congregation maybe and
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any other people or objects that they
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need to see
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in worship and things that they they
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need to see that's going to support
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what's being communicated throughout the
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service or what you're trying to
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convey to your congregation or have them
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experience
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during the worship service and you can
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get really creative with this but you
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know simply put make sure people can see
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your pastor and the worship leaders and
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the people on the platform who are
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communicating or leading a song or
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sharing announcements or leading
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communion or leading a baptism you want
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people to see people getting baptized
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right we have a sense of sight that god
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has given us and we use that sense of
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sight in the worship gathering in the
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most foundational way we do that is
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through just simply illuminating
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subjects the second objective which is a
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bit fancier and this will be
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contextualized to your local church
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setting is creative design
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it's the ability to enhance and support
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the message in various moments during
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the worship experience and usually we do
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this through color in special
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atmospheric effects the lighting design
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world can get as complex and creative as
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you in your church want it to be
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and that is a pretty important objective
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of our lighting system we want to be
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able to support the emotion and dynamics
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of the songs that we're singing because
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again it's just engaging another sense
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that we have as human beings to speak
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the truths of the gospel whether that's
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through songs or through preaching or
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whatever it is maybe it's just the
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environment of the room the way we have
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the lighting and the aesthetic of the
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room and the stage that that speaks to
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people's hearts even though it's not in
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an overt you know verbal way it's kind
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of more in a subliminal way right so um
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the way you light your church says a lot
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about what you your church believes and
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what your church believes about god and
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we can get more into the nuance of some
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of that design theory later on in the
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course but um
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simply put creative design can be let's
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throw some color in there again color is
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a simple way to
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enhance or emphasize the emotional theme
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of whatever it is you're trying to sing
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or communicate so let's throw some color
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let's throw some
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lighting movement with moving fixtures
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to kind of you know add to the dynamics
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of a song
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that's simply put what the creative
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design objective is i want to make this
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important note too that adequate
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lighting design is crucial for your
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church's live stream cameras need
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light
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even the most high end of cameras out
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there if they don't have light
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that are reflecting the image in this
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case me is being reflected into this
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camera right here that you're watching
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me on um if if i didn't have my key
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light on it's to look horrible actually
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let me demonstrate that to you how would
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you feel if for the rest of this
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training i kept my lighting like this
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maybe you don't want to see my wonderful
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face as clearly as you did a few moments
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ago but it's it's distracting it's just
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it doesn't really capture your attention
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as well you just don't see me
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communicating quite as clearly so a lot
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of churches their lighting design looks
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like this and this is why their live
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stream looks horrible so before you go
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spending a ton of money on expensive
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cameras and lenses and live stream gear
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please please please make sure you have
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adequate lighting
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in that you've configured your lights in
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a way and your cameras in such a way
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that they're actually going to be
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working together the camera side of
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things we definitely cover a ton of in
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our live streaming courses so use this
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course in conjunction with our live
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streaming courses they're going to talk
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more about camera exposure and things
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like that so let's get let's get some
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good lighting back here much much better
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and i want to illustrate for you a case
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study of a church that i go to this is
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grace church i started going here within
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the past year when i moved to florida
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it's an awesome church i love it there
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and they have really a great foundation
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of all the gear that you need in a
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modern worship context and they have a
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really great lighting system like
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whoever
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designed this lighting system the
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integrator who they hired they built
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this church about a year ago
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they knew these fundamental concepts of
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what fixtures they would need and where
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where to place the fixtures
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but there's an issue there's some sort
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of gap in terms of just getting the
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actual worship team and tech tech team
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up to speed on the best practices of how
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to use those fixtures properly so you
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can see a before and after here we did
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not change
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anything about the fixtures or the
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control software um in this setup like
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the same same fixtures were hung before
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and after all we did is we actually just
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re-aimed fixtures and we controlled the
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beam of our lighting fixtures more
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effectively
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and then we did just some brightness
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adjustments at the control software i
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think a lot of churches watching this
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course could be in a similar place to
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grace church where you're going to learn
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about the concepts of great lighting and
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you're going to realize oh we actually
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do have all the fixtures we need
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maybe some of them are kicking around in
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a closet somewhere we need to hang them
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still but maybe you don't need to hang
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any new fixtures you just need to aim
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them and control them properly to get
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better results so before you can see
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here that you know if you just compare
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the images you can see our worship
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leader here asa he looks darker his skin
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tones look a little weird um and there's
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just not much dynamics to this image
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like the the brights aren't very bright
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the darks aren't very dark it's kind of
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flat um and there's not much color in
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the background at all it's kind of green
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but not really and a lot of churches
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will kind of settle for this because if
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this what you see on the left is is all
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you know and what you're used to
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you kind of don't think
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any different like it could be much
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better but i knew when i got there i'm
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like man this lighting needs to improve
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because it looked pretty much just as
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bad in person as it did online actually
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probably looked worse online and there's
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some some weeks during the live stream
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like you just could not see
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basically anything that was going on
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again combination of camera exposure and
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poor lightning but poor lighting is
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where it starts and that's what the
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problem was
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so what we did is we
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just again we re-aimed the lights we
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controlled the shutter on the
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front lighting that they had and we made
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some adjustments to the brightness and
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now just look how much better the
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subject stands out and you can see asa
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as he's leading worship much clearly in
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the background we have much more color
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control so we can actually light up
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these panels in the background and you
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can see kind of that back kind of wash
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atmospheric effect happening with the
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lighting in there so it just looks much
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clearer and here's an example of what
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this change looked like for our
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preaching portion of service this is our
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pastor aaron and before
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you know during the sermon sermon they
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would you know put the lights on full
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brightness so he's actually bright
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enough as a subject but what was
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happening because the lights were aimed
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improperly
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they were flooding onto the back wall
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and that's why the back wall looks flat
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you can just see random light beams kind
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of flooding onto that back wall we we
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don't want it to be like that we want to
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be able to control that back wall we
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want it to be black when there's no
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light we want it to be
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a color when we have different colors so
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here you can see we've got this similar
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blue look it's kind of my favorite color
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for worship is blue
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maybe because it's just my favorite
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color overall but we have this blue look
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and now there's much just better
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separation between pastor aaron and the
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background so again these were changes
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that we implemented without introducing
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any new fixtures it was it was all just
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about getting the aim of the fixtures
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right and the control right here is the
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four step process to professional
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lighting design for churches if you can
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follow these four steps and apply them
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to your context you are going to get
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much better results when it comes to
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lighting so what i'm going to do is
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first i'll introduce the step and then
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i'm actually going to
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illustrate it to you
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in our worship center at south
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fellowship church step number one the
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front wash light this is very important
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to achieving that first objective we
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talked about earlier of illuminating
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subjects properly your worship leader
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your pastor whoever it is they are
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leading at a moment in time in worship
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and for them to communicate effectively
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people need to see them so that's where
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the front wash light comes in that's
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kind of the first half of meeting that
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objective of adequately lighting your
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subject right now i'm sitting at my desk
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and i have one front wash light right in
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front of me it's a nice soft uh key
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light and that's what's illuminating and
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i showed you guys earlier on what that
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looks like when that's turned off so
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that's my front wash light here now
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let's head on over to our worship center
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at south fellowship and i'll illustrate
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this to you there welcome to the south
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fellowship church worship center in
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which i'm going to demo for you some of
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these principles that we're talking
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about first let's talk about front
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lighting so you can see i'm standing
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here on the front little platform we
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have on our stage and i know every
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single stage out there is unique but
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most of these principles will always
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apply to any church context first i'm
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going to go ahead and turn off our front
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lights so now there's pretty much no
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light in the room except for the light
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coming off of the projection that i have
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behind me so we have four primary front
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wash fixtures in front of me i'll go
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ahead and turn those on this is pretty
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much at full brightness so you can see
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these
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lights uh basically you've got one two
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three four so if i'm looking straight
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ahead out to the congregation
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we've got the two lights on the right
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side of me
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they are about a 45 degree angle up and
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that's one important tip i also want to
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share with you when it comes to not
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having weird shadows on your subject
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with front lighting is try to have your
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lights for whatever subject you're
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trying to light 45 degrees vertically
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and then also 45 degrees to the side
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works well especially if you can have
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two front lights lighting one zone kind
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of coming together in one place we don't
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really have as many front light fixtures
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that i would prefer in this space
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but this works pretty well because
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whoever's standing on this front
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platform here is going to get a pretty
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even wash no matter what part of the
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platform that they are on so you can see
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here as i kind of shuffle back and forth
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across the frame sometimes with front
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lights you can get a more dramatic look
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when you only have one of them lit so i
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have this primary key light right here
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that's lighting one side of me and it
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has some pretty harsh shadows on the
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other side and it makes it a bit more
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dramatic so that can be appropriate
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sometimes especially for maybe a worship
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leader if you want the song to look and
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feel a little bit more dramatic
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but usually when we're doing you know
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our teaching
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lighting design for our our pastors
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we're just going to have those full
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front lights on so that there's a nice
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even wash all across the subjects who
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are on stage step number two is to
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implement a kick light or a hair light
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or sometimes it's called a kicker light
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any of these terms are pretty much
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referring to the same thing the purpose
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of a kick light and a hair light is to
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enhance the look of the subject on stage
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you're trying to light like a pastor or
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a worship leader anybody else who's
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talking during worship by separating
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them from their background so that's
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what the kick and the hair light does so
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we've got my front light and then a kick
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light or a hair light is going to be
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above the subject and a little bit
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behind like not too far behind so in
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this scenario here my kick light is this
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little led panel that's right above me
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my hand is pretty much on it right here
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it's probably like a foot or so above my
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head out of frame so you can't see it
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and you can see how it's it's kind of
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has this orange glow around my hat and
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here i can kind of adjust the brightness
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so it's too much if i do that right i
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actually have it on pretty dim i just
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want it to be
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glowing a little bit and then you can
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kind of see again the difference let me
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shut it off so that's no hair light
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notice how
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um kind of flat the image looks and i
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kind of get absorbed into the background
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behind me right and then when i turn it
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on it kind of helps separate me so you
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get the hair on my shoulders and on top
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of my head and that's separating me from
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the background and it's subtle it's one
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of those things where like you kind of
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almost don't notice at all
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until i demo that to you right there and
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you see it before and after and it's
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like whoa that's a huge difference i
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would never want to be without a kick
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light or a hair light so let's head on
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to the worship center and i'll demo that
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for you there so here's what it looks
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like with our hair light or our kick
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lights on at south fellowship let me go
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ahead and i will turn off the front
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lights
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and now i'm going to only turn on the
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back hair light so now you can see
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there's sort of a glow around the top of
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my head and my shoulders here and it's
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creating that separation between me and
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the background and here is what that
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hair light looks like
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from the side angle here so you can kind
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of get a better picture of where this
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light is placed notice it's not
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necessarily a 45 degree angle behind me
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it doesn't need to be it can be you know
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above me in a little bit behind me i
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think it's around like 16 to 20 degrees
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or degrees or something like that so
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it's not as far back
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when you're having the kick lights and
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again it's going to create that nice
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kind of silhouette look it's going to
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separate me from the background so now
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i'm going to combine the front lights
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with the hair light behind me and here's
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what it looks like when i shut off the
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hair light you can see it just kind of
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like loses that separation of uh from on
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the back of me and then i turn the hair
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light back on and then that kind of
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comes back a little bit here we don't
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always have the hair light on 100 full
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sometimes around 60 to 70 percent and
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let's go back to the front angle here so
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you can kind of see the combined results
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of these
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two lighting fixtures working together
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so let's go ahead and turn off
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the hair light so no hair light
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and now bringing the hair light back on
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so that's the hair light or the kick
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light demoed in this space we also have
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some colored kick lights or hair lights
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so if i go ahead and i turn on behind me
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here there's a kind of blue you can see
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the blue cyan colors behind me and let
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me just turn down my front lights just
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so you get a better
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look at what that looks like here so
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this kick light look if you use some
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blues or purples in combination with
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those front lights it can look really
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sharp i think especially for a worship
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leader setting i think for like teaching
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pastors i usually like to have a more
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you know kind of incandescent
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warmer look to that kick light that's
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why we use our regular fixtures for that
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but we do have the blue look here and
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then let me go ahead and bring in our
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front lights and that's a pretty
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pleasing look to have the natural front
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light
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lighting the front of me and then having
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the the blue kick light that again it's
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creating that separation between me and
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the background step number three which
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is very easy to implement in most
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churches is a wall wash so whatever
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platform or stage you have at your
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church you most likely have some walls
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at the back of that
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space or that stage and one of the
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easiest ways to have some some color
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lighting design on your stage is to
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simply wash color light onto the wall
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behind your band i've done this in many
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church contexts and now i'm going to
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turn on my led light that i have here in
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my studio and you'll kind of get a sense
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of what i'm talking about so this is an
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led light tube i like to use it for
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youtube videos and stuff like that it's
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a nan light pavo tube 30c i think they
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do make dmx enabled ones if you ever
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wanted to integrate that into a dmx
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lighting system for your church i would
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love to get a ton of these sometimes but
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in terms of this concept here of a wall
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wash it to illustrate this for you i'll
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just put it behind me and i'll have it
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kind of pointing at the wall behind me
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because i don't really want it in front
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of me because i'm going to look blue
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kind of like a smurf that doesn't look
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good right so watch this now that light
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is behind me it's directed more at the
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wall you can kind of see some of it also
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reflecting on me a little bit that light
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doesn't give me much control over that
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that beam of light it kind of just like
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washes everywhere but you get the idea
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that's a wall wash and for a lot of
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church stage setups and platforms you
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probably have some bare walls behind
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your band
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or you know just behind the pulpit or
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wherever it is that if you threw light
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onto those walls it's going to add some
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nice color and start adding some nice
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effects so now let's head on into the
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worship center and i'll demonstrate to
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you what this looks like in our setup so
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we're back here at south fellowship
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church and i want to show you our wall
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wash fixtures i'm just going to pan over
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here and you can kind of get a feel for
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it this panel right here
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the stage is a little bit of mester in
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the midweek here but we have these
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wooden panels behind us and i'll cut in
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some other footage from other events
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that we've had here where you can see
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sometimes we actually don't have the
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screen behind me we turn the screen
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around and we have paneling and we have
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lights that are shining down on those
00:19:11
panels that is our wall wash here at
00:19:13
south fellowship and really depending on
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the week or the sermon series or the
00:19:17
style we're going for on our stage
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design it can be different in how much
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wall wash we're using and i do think a
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projector like what we're using right
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now on a on a white reflective service
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surface can function as a wall wash
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there's some churches that use kind of
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environmental projection and that's
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basically what that is is a wall wash
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it's adding lots of color behind me and
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i have a few different presets so i can
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change it to different colors like red
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and then we've got
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amber
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and we've got purple
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and we also have some movement in some
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of these scenes too so you'll actually
00:19:51
see
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these lights kind of fading in and out
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behind me you can kind of see them on
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the top of the screen because it kind of
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washes onto the top of the screen
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as well and that adds a cool kind of
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visual dynamic all with a simple wall
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wash step number four is when you start
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adding in atmospheric effect lighting
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this is when you start working with
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lighting fixtures like moving lights
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that have gobos and cool beams and of
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course you're gonna need a hazer that
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creates that atmospheric effect that you
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can see the beams of light
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there's blinder fixtures there's lasers
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there's all sorts of fancy lights that
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you can get into when it comes to the
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atmospheric lights and this should
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always be step number four there's a
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reason why i ordered these steps in the
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way that i did because you got to have
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number one good front lighting number
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two a kick light number three that's
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when you can start doing some
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wall uh washes and then step number four
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that's when you should worry about
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moving fixtures and such don't get this
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out of order don't go building a
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lighting system and thinking oh i need
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to buy a bunch of moving lights with
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gobos like no don't do that prioritize
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in the exact order that i laid them out
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for you here so now let's head back on
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over to south fellowship church and talk
00:21:07
about some of the atmospheric lighting
00:21:08
effects that we have set up there so
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here is our simple use of atmospheric
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lighting effects here at south
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fellowship i would consider our
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atmospheric lights here to be our edison
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bulbs so if i turn on these light bulbs
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you kind of see them all around the back
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of me on stage here we don't run any
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haze we don't have any fancy moving
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lights but these edison bulbs function
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as atmospheric effect lighting you could
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also get like tube light fixtures like
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the kind i have in my studio
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you can again you can get movers
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you can get profile lights you can get
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led wash movers you can get the ones
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that have gobos built into it you can
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get blinders there's all sorts of
00:21:50
different atmospheric lights out there
00:21:52
and this is our simple implementation of
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it where we made these edison
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light stands and we're hanging edison
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light bulbs from the ceiling and it just
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has a really nice homey cozy glow to the
00:22:04
stage that fits the vibe of our church
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so those are the four steps to
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professional lighting design have
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adequate front wash lights have an
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adequate kick light have wall wash and
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then have your atmospheric effects but
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those last don't put atmospheric effects
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before one two or three a word about
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style all churches are unique there's so
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many different styles of worship out
00:22:30
there and denominations you get
00:22:31
traditional contemporary modern cafe
00:22:34
style churches just all sorts of
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different styles right
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all churches regardless of your
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tradition denomination should observe
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steps one and two uh the front and kick
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lighting so that people are visible and
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your live stream is going to look good i
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know sometimes i've hear from people uh
00:22:51
who are like jake i'm at a roman
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catholic church or i'm at a lutheran
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church and we have a traditional
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building and we don't really want to do
00:22:59
like crazy modern lighting and that's
00:23:01
okay you can still observe these
00:23:04
principles from steps one and two when
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you have adequate front lights and kick
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lights and you don't have to have any
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wall washes or any atmospheric effects
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and that that can work well for a
00:23:14
traditional church but
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you might also want to explore some
00:23:18
different scenarios even if you're a
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traditional church you could implement
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some wall washes and i've seen that
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before there's an anglican church in
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town if you look at wellspring anglican
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church look them up on youtube we've
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done tech tours with them where they had
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wall washes and they would change the
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colors of those wall washes depending on
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the season of the liturgical calendar so
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there's actually probably a lot of
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creative things you could do with
00:23:42
lighting if you ever went down that
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route even if you're in a more
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traditional church steps three and four
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that we covered in this four-step
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process that will look different in
00:23:52
every church setting it has a lot to do
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with your mission your style your values
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your budget how many of these fancy
00:23:59
lights do you want to get so i'm not
00:24:01
going to prescribe
00:24:02
and say like every single church has to
00:24:04
implement these fancy things like a
00:24:06
hazer machine and moving lights that
00:24:09
that would be foolish it just doesn't
00:24:10
make sense because those are artistic
00:24:12
creative choices that have to be
00:24:14
contextualized to your local church
00:24:17
context and before we move on in this
00:24:19
course i do want to spend some time just
00:24:21
talking about
00:24:22
what is light just the concept of light
00:24:24
hopefully now you have lots of clarity
00:24:27
on that four-step process and how to
00:24:29
design a great system but let's just
00:24:30
talk about the nature of light so light
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is a pretty magnificent thing that god
00:24:35
created right and that's what the very
00:24:36
first thing he created was light so it's
00:24:39
kind of a big deal and it's it's a part
00:24:42
of our lives in a lot of different ways
00:24:44
so light exists on the electromagnetic
00:24:46
spectrum and maybe this is going to
00:24:49
bring back some good memories or bad
00:24:51
memories from your high school physics
00:24:54
courses back in the day
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but visible light is is just a small
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portion of the electromagnetic spectrum
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right on the far left you got like radio
00:25:04
waves and on the far right you've got
00:25:06
gamma rays
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and in between this is the visible light
00:25:10
that's pretty safe and this is the light
00:25:12
that we can you know see and and
00:25:14
perceive the world around us and then
00:25:17
you have red on the left which has the
00:25:19
the longer wavelengths and then you have
00:25:22
like the violet which has the shorter
00:25:23
wavelengths
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none of this is super important or
00:25:26
relevant to church lighting design but
00:25:29
just wanted to bring bring you back to
00:25:31
some of these fundamental principles
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about light is that it basically
00:25:35
consists of a ton of different
00:25:37
wavelengths of
00:25:39
electromagnetic particles and waves
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right light is both a particle and a
00:25:43
wave i do remember that back from
00:25:44
physics so
00:25:45
that's the first thing to understand
00:25:47
about visible light which was what we
00:25:49
are working with cri is another
00:25:51
important concept to understand when it
00:25:53
comes to
00:25:54
light because a lot of the lighting
00:25:56
fixtures that you're going to purchase
00:25:57
might have a cri
00:25:59
number assigned to them that's a color
00:26:01
rendering index and the
00:26:05
short answer to what this all means is
00:26:07
basically
00:26:09
if you go with a light that's that's
00:26:11
cheap and inexpensive it's going to have
00:26:12
a low cri
00:26:14
and you're going to get very poor
00:26:16
results cheap lights are going to look
00:26:17
bad and
00:26:19
better lights they don't always have to
00:26:20
be super expensive but probably
00:26:22
somewhere in the
00:26:24
high hundreds to a thousand dollars or
00:26:26
so per fixture those are going to have a
00:26:29
higher cri with
00:26:32
a rating of 100. 100 is the same type of
00:26:35
light quality we get from the sun the
00:26:37
sun is emitting
00:26:39
all of the different uh wave forms that
00:26:43
we talked about earlier on this previous
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slide pretty much all the red through
00:26:47
the purple at the same amount or mostly
00:26:49
the same amount in such a way that when
00:26:52
the sunlight hits an object like an
00:26:54
apple we we see that the apples color um
00:26:57
in in the most full way it's fully
00:27:00
saturated
00:27:02
and the apple looks great but if you get
00:27:05
cheap little rgbw
00:27:07
parkan light from you know
00:27:10
alibaba or something like that
00:27:12
and you light the apple
00:27:14
that little led park hand because it's
00:27:16
so cheap it's not producing all of the
00:27:19
same wavelengths that you get from the
00:27:21
sun so
00:27:22
you know when you're looking at the
00:27:24
apple you're actually seeing the light
00:27:26
that's being reflected off the apple to
00:27:28
your eye right and if there's not a good
00:27:30
light source that's illuminating that
00:27:32
apple
00:27:33
then you're just not gonna see actually
00:27:35
all of the color that that apple has so
00:27:38
that's why you know cheap light has a
00:27:40
poor cri it's gonna be in 70 and it's
00:27:43
gonna look weird it kind of has this
00:27:44
weird like
00:27:45
purplish tint and that's the same exact
00:27:48
um results that i've seen in some of the
00:27:51
you know cheap led
00:27:53
lights that i've tried to implement at
00:27:54
churches before in the past and i've
00:27:56
always wondered why do they look so
00:27:58
horrible why do the people kind of look
00:27:59
purple on stage
00:28:01
has to do with cri so here's an example
00:28:04
of what a cri test looks like on a light
00:28:07
it's basically divided up into these
00:28:09
like 15
00:28:10
r
00:28:11
zones or measurements the higher that
00:28:14
these measurements are closer to 100
00:28:16
just the more accurate the the color is
00:28:19
going to look of the object that's being
00:28:21
illuminated by this light so the
00:28:23
important thing is to know when it comes
00:28:25
to cri look for things that are at least
00:28:27
like 90 and above if it's below 90
00:28:29
especially for like your front wash
00:28:31
lights when you're illuminating people's
00:28:33
skin tones and you want them to look
00:28:35
natural don't go cheap with inexpensive
00:28:37
low cri lights another concept i want to
00:28:40
make you familiar with is color
00:28:42
temperature so this one's pretty
00:28:44
straightforward even if you're not a
00:28:46
tech geek it's pretty easy to see and
00:28:48
understand what's going on so
00:28:51
color temperature is is the way of
00:28:54
basically rating the the temperature of
00:28:56
that light is it going to be a cooler
00:28:58
temperature is it going to be a warmer
00:29:00
temperature so it's rated in kelvins
00:29:02
that's what k stands for and on the left
00:29:05
side of the chart here you'll see 1500
00:29:07
kelvin is about the equivalent of
00:29:09
candlelight which is about as warm as a
00:29:12
light can possibly get on the right side
00:29:15
you have daylight to ultra daylight so
00:29:18
this is where it starts to get blue or
00:29:20
have a very cool feel too color
00:29:22
temperature is going to be important for
00:29:23
the front lighting that you have at your
00:29:25
church and the sweet spot you're going
00:29:27
to be looking for
00:29:28
color temperature wise for those front
00:29:30
lights is going to be somewhere around
00:29:31
here
00:29:32
4 000. sometimes i have i really prefer
00:29:35
like daylight front lights closer to
00:29:38
like 5 000 but in a
00:29:40
venue like a church where you have a
00:29:42
stage and you also want people to kind
00:29:44
of look good you know in person it's not
00:29:46
just about what you're producing for
00:29:48
camera like i am here
00:29:49
i think the 4 000 4500 range is going to
00:29:52
be ideal for color temperature because
00:29:55
let me show you what happens when i
00:29:56
dramatically change the color
00:29:58
temperature of this key light currently
00:30:00
this color temperature this light is
00:30:01
actually like 5600 now i drop the color
00:30:04
temperature of this light down to 3 000.
00:30:06
and my camera is not on auto white
00:30:09
balance it probably would have adjusted
00:30:11
it automatically i have it locked in to
00:30:13
5600 kelvin because that's what i had
00:30:15
had it at before
00:30:17
and you can just see how
00:30:19
yellow and warm i look in this image so
00:30:22
you definitely don't want to go too warm
00:30:24
because it just looks too warm it
00:30:26
i kind of look orange and here we are
00:30:28
back to 5600 kelvin from my studio key
00:30:31
light now let's talk about ambient light
00:30:33
so ambient light is the light coming
00:30:35
from other sources in a church setting
00:30:37
it's most commonly the windows that you
00:30:39
have within your worship center that can
00:30:42
become an issue sometimes especially if
00:30:44
you're trying to have more of the wall
00:30:46
washes and the atmospheric lighting
00:30:49
effects that have color and the problem
00:30:52
is if you have a ton of ambient light
00:30:54
coming in the room those lights aren't
00:30:56
going to do a whole lot because all the
00:30:58
ambient light is washing out everything
00:31:00
i think if you're in a more traditional
00:31:01
church with big stained glass windows
00:31:03
and you have lots of ambient light
00:31:05
that's fine it you'll just add light to
00:31:08
the front light and maybe a kick light
00:31:10
so that your subjects subjects can be
00:31:12
seen more clearly and generally you're
00:31:14
going to be lighting them a decent
00:31:16
amount brighter than any ambient light
00:31:18
coming in the room but if you're in a
00:31:19
more modern church setting and you you
00:31:21
want to have more control over the color
00:31:24
wall washes or atmospheric washes and
00:31:28
effects and have a hazer that's when
00:31:30
you're going to have to work on some
00:31:31
sort of ambient light control situation
00:31:34
because if you don't then all that
00:31:36
ambient light is going to wash out all
00:31:37
the color and effects and you won't even
00:31:39
know that they're there my favorite
00:31:41
solution to this is using something like
00:31:43
a solar shade so you can contact local
00:31:46
blind supply or shade companies in your
00:31:49
area usually they have options for solar
00:31:51
shades i like solar shades because
00:31:54
they're black they kind of are pretty
00:31:56
minimalistic especially if you roll them
00:31:57
all the way up you just barely can tell
00:31:59
they're even there and then when they're
00:32:01
down you have different options of
00:32:03
having one percent open shades to five
00:32:06
to ten percent um so
00:32:09
you know you could probably get away
00:32:11
with anywhere from i'd say five to one
00:32:13
is what i would prefer we have one
00:32:15
percent in our studio here so we have
00:32:17
big windows over here but you wouldn't
00:32:18
be able to tell because the shades are
00:32:20
only letting in one percent of that
00:32:22
ambient light but then i can still see
00:32:24
outside um so i really like that because
00:32:27
you still get the view of a window
00:32:29
obviously it's a different type of view
00:32:31
because you're looking through that that
00:32:32
shade or that screen
00:32:34
but in a lot of churches that could mean
00:32:36
a lot because i was in a church one time
00:32:38
that has some beautiful stained glass
00:32:39
windows they let in a lot of light so we
00:32:42
put some nice you know sleek shoulder
00:32:44
solar shades um at the top of the the
00:32:46
windows and then you know before our
00:32:48
modern contemporary service we put the
00:32:50
shades down and we just did manual
00:32:52
shades because it took about 30 seconds
00:32:54
to do and then that really controlled a
00:32:56
lot of the amount of ambient light
00:32:58
coming in but then as a congregant you
00:33:01
could still enjoy the the beautiful
00:33:03
design of the stained glass because it
00:33:05
was still coming through at one percent
00:33:08
through that shade so solar shades i
00:33:10
love them i'm always a big advocate for
00:33:12
those especially for churches if you
00:33:13
want to still see out the windows and
00:33:15
have the feel that you have windows i've
00:33:17
seen motorized curtains at churches i've
00:33:19
seen motorized garage doors there's all
00:33:22
sorts of solutions out there but just be
00:33:24
mindful of ambient light in whatever
00:33:27
church situation you find yourself
00:33:29
finally i want to talk about the most
00:33:30
common mistakes to avoid when it comes
00:33:32
to lighting in a church setting
00:33:35
here they are not enough front light or
00:33:38
key light so people just aren't being
00:33:40
lit adequately enough um having no back
00:33:43
or kick or kicker light at all
00:33:45
having no hair light so the image just
00:33:47
looks really flat and the subjects are
00:33:49
not standing out from the background not
00:33:51
having beam control basically these
00:33:53
first three problems are so common and
00:33:55
these are the exact ones that i showed
00:33:57
you back at grace church so you have a
00:33:59
bunch of maybe front lights but they're
00:34:01
just washing over the entire stage they
00:34:03
were never aimed intentionally anywhere
00:34:05
you don't have barn doors or shutters on
00:34:07
those fixtures so the light just goes
00:34:09
everywhere
00:34:10
and then complex lighting control this
00:34:13
is another very common thing where
00:34:14
someone at some time purchased the big
00:34:17
fancy theatrical lighting console for
00:34:19
your church it's completely overkill
00:34:22
nobody knows how to run it it's really
00:34:23
frustrating and just makes you want to
00:34:25
pull your hair out and you just hope
00:34:26
that nothing breaks and you cross your
00:34:28
fingers so
00:34:29
we're going to be talking about
00:34:30
simplifying your lighting control with
00:34:32
lightkey later on in the course and then
00:34:34
finally another very common mistake is
00:34:36
using inexpensive low cri fixtures which
00:34:39
we talked about earlier of trying to
00:34:41
save a buck you get cheap fixtures and
00:34:44
then everybody just looks they look
00:34:45
sickly it looks purple or
00:34:48
just looks very strange especially on
00:34:51
camera so these are the common mistakes
00:34:53
to avoid if you avoid these your
00:34:55
lighting's going to look amazing by just
00:34:58
avoiding these common mistakes so that
00:34:59
concludes this lesson on lighting theory
00:35:02
in best practices
00:35:04
please please implement the four steps i
00:35:07
talked about earlier in order and keep
00:35:10
these steps in mind as we go about
00:35:12
thinking about the anatomy of a lighting
00:35:14
system as you design your system and
00:35:16
then you actually start working in your
00:35:18
control software come back to these
00:35:21
re-watch the lesson if you need to
00:35:23
because you are going to be using these
00:35:25
in whichever church lighting context you
00:35:27
find yourself and that concludes this
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