Light and Color of the stage lighting

The light and color of the stage lighting

In the development of stage lighting drama, some stage art masters have advocated the organic fusion of light and landscape. The "comprehensive art of art" by the Swiss stage artist apia; The Czech stage artist, sverboda, stressed that the stage design of "frozen music" was designed to be integrated with the flow of light from music. Mr. Li, a chinese-american artist, also stressed that "there must be good cooperation between the set and the lighting design..."

The architecture we usually know, the sculpture, the painting is the art of holding the time, the space in the plane or in the stereo. However, performing arts as a combination of time and space art requires a space to maintain a relationship -- a theater or a place of performance. Artists transcend time and space in the stage of constitute a multidimensional factors such as sound, light, color and form of visual and auditory creative space, and over time, as well as the transformation of plot, scene and continuance development. Whether it is a dramatic plot twist or drama of song and dance performances, at the same time, show the light or in imperceptible in a visual way to changes of light and shade effect, the change of space form, or to light the device itself has the function of all kinds of visual effects. To shape the image, rendering color, change the rhythm, and pregnant performance and form a visual vocabulary of stage space atmosphere, which affect the audience's mood changes, constitute a scene, actors, the audience interact with stage shows the content of a particular space.

Stage lighting system is designed to comply with the laws of stage art performance and special use requirements for configuration, its purpose lies in the various performing arts reproduction process, the lights of the required process equipment configuration according to system engineering design, accurate, and complete the stage lighting system for art display service.

In stage lighting design, the most important thing is the use of light and color. The so-called light color, the color of light, is the most emotive element in the stage lighting, it is the mood, atmosphere, the emotional aspect of the characters in the play. In terms of expression space and time; In control performance rhythm plays an important role, at the same time shows on the stage sets, costumes, makeup, props for "secondary color", unity and coordination of the stage picture color.

The combination of light and color is the most important method of stage lighting to create artistic effect, and the color of light determines the tone of the stage image. The stimulating color is used to create the feeling of beauty, affect the psychology of the audience, have a lot of expression and the appeal, have become the most commonly used method of the present theater performance. "Colour can express emotions powerfully... the effects of color are very direct and spontaneous," arnhem said in the book art and visual perception. Once the colour of light permeates the waves of drama, the atmosphere of the theater becomes active. In the process of using stage lighting color, the first consideration is to grasp the whole stage image, which is similar to the procedure of painting. Usually we consider in the initial stage of drawing is not "how to draw the apple", "how to express this vase" such details, but the first to draw their own determine the tone of a big, then without affecting the scope of this big color characterization "apple", "vase" local details. Stage in the theater, the picture is tonal the most visually giving the audience visual, first impression is the most important, the most eye-catching, to play emotional expression and the audience's visual reading play a powerful role.

In the art of painting, the tone is the theme of a painting; In the art of drama, the tone of the stage lighting can be called the "emotional score" of the entire play. For the lighting designer, the color tone is the overall color grasp of all the aesthetic objects on stage. Because colour is affected by the influence of adjacent color, a kind of colour does not only exist in oneself, its nature comes from the surroundings. Thus, the combination of colors is tonal in terms of creation or design. The tone determines the overall intent of the organization's colors. In a lot of drama situation appropriate stage images, a reasonable tone is commander-in-chief of the stage lighting design and command, in practice according to the theater performance object and drama in the emotional need to be flexible application and selection.

On stage, for lighting design to choose to use a lot of color, this will require a lighting designer of drama ontology, through his stage space and landscape character of overall understanding to refine, trade-offs, seek the mass-tone attune in a variety of color relations. When drawing a picture of a stage, we usually use the following techniques to choose the color of the light, and match the image tone of the designer's intention and thought.

Light color is one of the most important elements of stage lighting and is the most complex one. Colour can arouse the aesthetic experience of people, by people's memory and produce similar association. Red, for example, allows people to carry on the pros and cons of lenovo, lenovo to fire and blood, and associated with the sun, weddings, war, etc., feel the warm, warm, happy or terror, pain and death. In the stage performance, the lighting design often USES the symbol or meaning of the light color to express and foil the drama and the atmosphere. However, because of the differences in group culture and personal habits and mood, there is a difference between the association and feeling of color. Strong colorful, vivid, the actor's makeup, costumes, props, performance is strong and has the formal beauty, these visual elements alone can give audience strong visual stimulation, if coupled with the lights of the "colorful", easily backfire. In modern dance, white light is also a very important stage performance, and the simple light color makes the audience's attention more focused on the body segment, the movement and the aesthetic feeling of the posture. Of course, this kind of white light performance is very different from the full display of white light in traditional Chinese operas. Modern dance lights are designed to illuminate the rhythm and beauty of the dance by combining different angles and bright white light.

In the stage, stage lighting often need to simulate a scene in real life, sometimes, not only need light to create drama environment of space, but also shows the time of the story. At this time, the illuminant of the main performance is lost the whole stage space, stage picture is unified in the influence of this kind of illuminant to form a certain tonal. On the stage, the moonlight on the street, the cabin under the lamp... They all present a certain atmosphere of color. Lighting design need to see the lighting effects of daily life, nature and the stage of the main light source the best setting position of lamps and lanterns, emphasize the feeling of light and color, of course, also note the stage space, the background and the main light source in lighting effect on the echo. Lighting design should be based on the theme and plot script, director, and many other factors, the use of colours do bright dark, cold warm, there are numerous have Jane, with rippling changes to match the foil and the performance of the characters, plot will fully consider the whole tonal use, through the games between the change of tone, the ups and downs for guiding light color changes. Reasonable use of light color and color choice are necessary for a successful stage lighting design, but it is not unique. In the process of lighting design, even in the performance of light using the natural scene, the establishment of tonal should not be just coldly objective record, more should not be blindly advocate the gorgeous color. This choice is supposed to be based on the fact that the "play" is based on the "drama" and "human" objective and subjective emotional unity. Thus, the use of the color of the language of lamplight is really artistic, and truly "the outer division is made, the center is the source". The color or tone of the object is itself, only in the play, can arouse the different sentiment of the viewer. People have lived in a world of color for generations, and color changes and forms can have direct or indirect effects on people's psychology and physiology. In the formation process of life experience, the color of the material characteristics, through the cumulative effect, naturally causes people to produce all sorts of feelings, such as passion, hope, yellow, red and grief associated terror dark grey colour. People in the long-term stage art practice has fully proved that colour atmosphere in active performance, control of emotional drama, describing personage psychological plays an incomparable role, the use of light color is the stage lighting design as an important link of the visual arts. What the audience sees through the stage is the tone of the image that is constructed out of light, but the emotions and feelings of the characters in the play or the play.

Complete the overall atmosphere and make the performance perfect. In show psychological characters, the lights can be designed according to the requirement of the character and director, combined with characters of scheduling, use color contrast, the method of strengthening method of brightness or change the light color, to highlight the purpose of the main characters, let the color according to the content of the performance, character, and to create incomparable emotional power. As Russian masters of abstract expressionism kandinsky notes: colour of sensory role after you off it will forget it, don't leave any lasting impression on it with the development of stage art.