A Guide to Stage Lighting Classification and Selection

I. Basic Lighting: Creating the "Base Color" of the Stage

The core task of basic lighting is to evenly illuminate the stage, ensuring that people and props are clearly visible.

Representative Products
● LED Par Lights
Par Lights: The Choice for Basic Lighting
Features: Using high-brightness LED light sources, low energy consumption, long lifespan, and adjustable color temperature.
Applicable Scenarios: Basic lighting for small- to medium-sized stages, fill lighting for the check-in area.
Pitfall Avoidance Tips: Choose a wattage of ≥200W to avoid facial shadows.

● LED Rings
Features: Invisible installation, 160,000 colors adjustable, extremely low power consumption.
Applicable Scenarios: Passageway guidance, outlining the edges of the stage.
Tips: Choose IP65 waterproof grade; the effect is better when used with dry ice.

● Follow Spotlights
Features: concentrated light beams, intelligent tracking, and automatic zooming.
Applicable Scenarios: Guest entrance, award ceremony, new product unveiling.
Parameter Suggestions: Choose above 750W, and a color temperature of 5600K is the most natural.

● Profile Spotlights
Features: Project clear light spots through a lens group.
Applicable Scenarios: Often used for fixed-point lighting in theaters, conference speaking platforms, corporate annual meetings, theater dramas, and the main stage of weddings.

II. Effect Lights: Dynamic beam lights can really liven up the atmosphere!

Effect lights create a visual impact through rapidly moving gobos and light beams, instantly mobilizing the audience's emotions.

● Beam Lights
Features: Sharp light columns, aerial shapes, and strong visual impact.
Applicable Scenarios: Opening shows, climax moments, technology-themed press conferences. Often used at the beginning of concerts and during the climax of electronic music festivals.
Precautions: The height of the indoor venue should be ≥5 meters to avoid glare.

● Profile Lights
Features: Have built-in prisms and color wheels and can project dynamic geometric shapes.
Applicable Scenarios: Suitable for entertainment venues such as bars and live houses.
Scene Case: When a singer emerges from the stage lift, multiple sets of beam lights sweep out in a radial pattern, combined with dry ice smoke, creating a shocking "breaking-through-the-air" effect.

III. Wash Lights: Rendering Emotions with Colors

Wash lights directly affect the audience's psychological feelings through large-scale color application.

● Wash Lights
Features: Large-scale color application, gradient effects, scene switching.
Applicable Scenarios: Afterparties of concerts, brand theme color rendering.
Advanced Usage: Overlay pattern sheets to project logo light and shadow.

● LED Wall Washers
Features: Can cover the entire background wall, support RGB color mixing, and switch to gradient effects with one click.

● LED Wash Bar Lights
Features: Waterproof design.
Applicable Scenarios: Suitable for installation on the sides of outdoor music festival stages to create an immersive visual background.

● Application of Color Psychology
Red: Represents passion and tension (suitable for rock concerts).
Blue: Represents tranquility and a sense of technology (suitable for press conferences or science-fiction-themed performances).

IV. Intelligent Lights: The "Black Technology" of Automated Control

Intelligent lights have built-in motors and programs and can remotely control the movement trajectory, saving labor costs.

Representative Products:

●Moving Headlights
Features: Integrate beam, gobo, and wash functions. Through DMX signal control, they can rotate 540° horizontally and 270° vertically.

● Computer Lights
Features are the main component of light shows. Through computer programming, the lights can change with the music.
Trend Analysis: According to the 2024 stage lighting market report, the purchase volume of intelligent lights increased by 35% year-on-year. Intelligence and wireless control have become the mainstream.

V. Special Effect Lights: Creating "Unexpected" Surprises

● Animation Laser Lights
Features: Can be programmed to draw text and logos and cooperate with smoke machines to achieve the "light beam tunnel" effect.
Safety Reminder: Laser lights should avoid direct exposure to people's eyes. Prior reporting to the local department is required when using them outdoors.

Whether it is a million-dollar concert or a wedding with a budget of tens of thousands of yuan, a reasonable combination of lighting can greatly enhance the quality of the event. Choosing the right lighting equipment can make your stage performance more wonderful!