Tuesday 15 December 2009

Light terminology

Soft Light/Fill Light
These lights take little energy to power and have barn doors which are flaps on the lights which can be closed.

Small Spot Light
These lights take a lot of energy to power. Also you can adjust the concentration of the light.

Flood Light
These lights are used to create main lighting in a set; they cannot really be used for specific spots of lighting.

Dimmer Pack
This equipment gives everything it powers the correct amount of power.

Lighting Panel
This controls lighting for each separate light, it has many panels that control each light or a master switch that can turn off all lights.

Tally Light
The Tally Light is a small red light on a camera to show whether the camera is online or not.

Stob Box
This connects cameras and microphones through to the vision mixing panel and audio desk, which saves having loads of wires around the room.

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