Lighting is what people photograph
Nobody posts a photograph of a PA. They post the room. Lighting is the cheapest thing on the invoice that changes how an event looks in every picture taken that night, which is most of what a client remembers a year later.
It is also the part most often done badly — approximate colours, fixtures in shot, a stage lit for the eye and unusable on camera.
- Uplighting and wall washes, matched to a brand colour, not guessed
- Moving lights, beams and washes for stage and audience
- Truss and roof structures, ground-supported or flown
- Gobos, custom logo projection and pattern washes
- Stage and key lighting built for camera when there is one
- A plot drawn in CAD to your room, signed off before load-in
By room
Three different jobs
Corporate and conference
Stage and key light that keeps a presenter readable on camera, ambient wash that matches the brand, and nothing in the audience's eyeline. Cued to the run of show, not left static.
Gala and wedding
Uplighting around the room, pin spots on centrepieces, a warm dinner look that shifts for the dance floor, and a custom gobo if there is a monogram or a logo.
Concert and festival
Moving-light rigs on truss, programmed to the set, with a lighting director who has run the songs. Built to be struck in the dark and loaded out on schedule.
Questions we get asked
What is uplighting, and how many do I need?
Uplights sit on the floor and wash a wall or a column in colour. They are the cheapest thing that changes a room completely. A ballroom usually wants one every eight to twelve feet around the perimeter — we will count it off your floor plan.
Can you match our brand colour?
Yes. Give us the hex or Pantone and we will match it on the fixtures rather than guessing at "blue". Worth doing: an approximate brand colour reads as a mistake in photographs.
Do you light for camera?
We ask that first, because it changes everything. Camera needs more light on faces, less contrast and no flicker — which rules out some fixtures and dimming curves entirely. Tell us there is a camera and the plot changes.
Will you do a plot before the day?
Yes, drawn to your room in CAD, with fixture positions, colours, focus and power. You see it and sign off before anything is loaded.
Can you hang from our ceiling?
Only after someone has looked at it. Some rooms have rigging points, some have a structure that will not take a load, and some need ground-supported truss instead. That is a survey question, not a phone question.
Send us the floor plan
A floor plan and a date is enough for us to draw a plot and price it properly.