Mobile Disco set up, part 2, Setting up the Lighting.

0:00 This guy here is known as a colour changer, OK?

Right, now this guy here is known as a colour changer, OK? Now these things here are known as barn doors. Now what they'll actually do is you can increase and decrease the actual intensity of the light just really by utilising these and also you can almost direct the light. Now then, what I do occasionally is I'll have a couple of these on the floor. Again, barn doors are ideal because then you can lower that so theoretically what's happening there, I'm standing here And I'm now looking at that light and it's not staring me in the face. I'm not blinded by that light. What's happening, it's got a nice good effect on the floor. Now also you can have these anywhere around the actual DJ setup but bearing in mind you don't want anything in front of this area at all. Absolutely nothing. And I think to be quite honest if you can see a DJ or you find a DJ he's got lighting right in front of him like that

He's a complete wazzock. Occasionally you will see in some of my video logs I've got certain little lights around here, but bearing in mind those functions there are very very few people. You've always got to remember the idiot scenario and that is there's always going to be some plonker who's going to come along and try and trip over something. I mean if we look now this is the table. You look at the line of the table there's absolutely nothing jutting out from that line at all. Everything The DJ Tutor is behind there so we're not going to get people tripping over everything, okay? Bear with me again. Okay, so we've got our colour changers. Now this guy here, this is known as an OptiKinetic Solar 250 and in there we've got an oil wheel. Now these particular lights are ideal to just cause... well, cause, sorry.

2:12 You could almost turn these on prior to the people dancing even

They're a good effect to just go onto walls, especially in white marquees. Now these particular lights, they don't have to be pointing at the actual public. Ideally, these sort of things are good to go against, say, the covering of the marquee or maybe on the floor or something like that. Now again, lighting, let's look at these guys here. They're ideal for pointing at the public. Fantastic! You almost get a good club environment, whereas these are more for just a laid-back sort of feel. You could almost turn these on prior to the people dancing even. A very good way of almost making a really bare, you know, non-descript sort of marquee into something that looks quite stunning, you know, prior to people starting to dance. Right, now if we look behind here, we've got these guys here, okay?

3:34 The cable there is just attached to the actual camera at the moment

Now this thing here is called a G-clamp. Now then, that should be well secured. Now really by law what you should have as well is you should have some sort of chain. Now you can see here, I think, where is it? There. That little piece there should have a chain attached to it and then also then the chain should be attached to the T-bar as well. Now basically what that means is that if all of a sudden this fell apart, which is highly unlikely, there is a chain attached to the T-bar There's no point doing this at the moment now, but bearing in mind now, I'm going to be walking in this vicinity continually. The cable there is just attached to the actual camera at the moment. Now what you need to do is you want to make sure you have not got any unnecessary cables all over the place here. You need to make sure that the area where you're working is completely free from everything because yes, you're going to be behind here. Now you're theoretically going to know...

What you're doing, but there's the odd occasion whereby you're going to get some drunkard coming along who's going to be annoying you and you're going to have to be very polite to them, but nine times out of ten you're possibly going to be worried that they're going to be tripping over things, okay? But if you think about it, if you've made cautions, if you've just got everything out of the way prior to setting everything up, then at the end of the day you don't have to worry because everything should be hunky-dory. Right, just bear with me a second.

Right, now not many people ever think of this, but okay, you've got your lighting, so the crowd have got loads of lights. You know, the public are loving it because all the lights are flashing, but guess what? All that light intensity is in their face. Now if you imagine you're driving along, okay, you're in a car... And a car's coming towards you and their beams are full on. Well guess what? You can't see anybody in the car. Now think about it logically, alright? You're the DJ, you're there to impress, people want to see you. So of course if you've got the lights in their faces and also the smoke's out as well. Now nine times out of ten you can't even see the DJ, so guess what? Why not have a light on you so the people can actually see you? Right, now there's something like this. This is known as just a basic water, if I were, it's an aqua dot. It's got LEDs inside of it. It's very low intensity but it gives a nice sort of effect. Now what I've done in the past is I've attached one of these like that on the actual T-bar, okay, and that's face to me. Now it hasn't gone, it's not in my face, actual, in my...

I hope this has been a help, thanks for watching.

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