Fog, smoke, mist and haze effects have been incorporated into productions of all types and sizes to evoke an emotional response from the viewer. In some cases, the fog is actually a central character...

For lighting designers, including the big time, Broadway-level guys, it isn’t always about the big rigs, moving lights and elaborate cue lists. It’s more about creative solutions…and knowing what’s...

Its been a whole year since we started our blog, Spectrum. To help celebrate our first year we are going to spend this week giving away Rosco prizes with a blog scavenger hunt! Here is how it will...

In a recent Spectrum post we announced a program in which we asked professionals, teachers and students to send us photos of stage lighting work in which they took pride. The outpouring was...

As WFTV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando, began to prepare for their long-haul coverage of the Casey Anthony Trial outside the Orange County Courthouse, they began to think about how the quality of...

The result of mixing the warmest and coolest colors - red and blue - is the color purple. This balance of red and blue evokes a myriad of emotions - all of which can work within a design to affect...

Good stage lighting work should be shared...especially if you get some great swag in return! Did you ever go to a performance and think to yourself “what a great lighting effect – I wish I knew how...

Leonardo DaVinci once said that "Water is the driving force of all nature." In many instances, water also proves to be the driving force in theatrical and architectural design, which makes one of the...

Whether a design calls for rotating a logo at a corporate event, the shadow of a fan blade turning through special-effects haze in the latest blockbuster or undulation within a foliage break-up to...

If you said the words blog or blogger back in 2005, the word would conjure up images of a person sitting at a computer in a dark room illuminated only by the glow of a monitor. You know – kind of...