Straight Front: This angle provides good visibility, but little to no shaping of the actors.So designing with front light is always a balancing act: use enough front light to make faces visible, but balance that front light with enough other angles to make the actors look like 3-dimensional objects. In other words, front light does a lousy job sculpting objects in space. However, the downside is that too much front light tends to flatten out the three dimensional shapes (including the actors).
So the advantages are clear- with front light, the actors on stage can be clearly seen. Lights are hung in the Front of House positions: catwalks, truss or beam positions over the heads of the audience, and pointed at the stage so that actors can be clearly visible to the audience.
See the images below for a rough equivalent of what each of these angles may look like:įront light is specifically in the rig to provide visibility for the actors. So Dance sides are often described based on the position on the boom: Shinbuster or Shin for the light at the bottom (named in honor and memory of countless bruises on the lower extremities of dancer and stagehand alike), Mid and Head High for lights hung higher. Dance uses a lot of side light- so much that simply calling it 'side light' is not descriptive enough. This is most common for lights that are on the floor rather than above the stage. Occasionally, though, we may describe the light based on its position. Likewise, if that light is pushed off to the side of the front of house lighting position, therefore hitting the actor from a diagonal, rather than straight on, it is a Diagonal Front Light. If an actor is standing on the stage facing the audience, and a light hits her from the front, it is Front Light. Systems are most often described based on the direction or angle that the light reaches the stage. Carefully consideration of these factors by the designer can determine visibility of the actor, depth and detail of the scenery, as well as other areas such as given circumstances and mood. The direction of the light is based on two points in space: The point at which the instrument is hung and the point at which the light reaches the stage.
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