Technical planning - lighting for events

Week 5 

In this weeks workshop, we learnt how to use SketchUp. Our task was to make the walls and infrastructure of the Hospitality Suite. I used the toolbox and discovered useful tools such as the push/pull, shift and move icons to make the Suite look as realistic as possible. I adjusted the dimensions of the walls by typing in the numbers e.g., 3x3cm in the bottom right hand corner of the page. Furthermore, I used 3D warehouse to input the glass windows and furniture. This SketchUp demonstration I found useful as we had to use a map layout of the management building so physically building the Suite itself helped me envision the layout of where we can put everything on the day of our event. 

This week, we learnt how to set up lighting systems safely. I learnt that there are many different types of lights including flood, birdies, parcan, fresnel, pebble convex and profiles. I think we will use more fresnel lights for our event rather than flood lights as fresnel lights have more control over beam angle than floods. We could also add profile lanterns which produce clearly defined spots of lights and are extremely versatile as well as the most focusable of the lanterns.   

Lighting set up photos