The Process Of The Stage Lighting Design

There are some process in designing stage lighting system. As the Stage Lighting company our job is like a bridge between the end user and the stage lighting manufacturer where we help the customer who want to build the stage lighting system to their auditorium or theater to understand their need and requirement.

The existing stage lighting system has been there for many years and it is time to upgrade to suit to current requirement. For a simple upgrading and when the customer requested for our advice and design we will usually provide free stage lighting design and proposal. 

They can also engage the lighting consultant to advise them for a larger scale of upgrading or in this case we will provide our experience and professional advice on the type of upgrading.

These inquiries usually come from house of worship like from church or mosque or from institution education like university, school, colleges and hotel ballroom and banquet hall and building that have the auditorium.

When design a stage lighting care must be take on the type of lighting and the space allows. Most of the time we based on budget to come up with our design and this is not accurate.

In order to assist us to come out with the design we will ask the customer some of the following question:

What is the stage size? What is the size of the auditorium and what is the seating capacity. It is important that we obtain these information and we will ask the customer to check in the as built drawing or operation manual for the information. Sometime the customer will email the information like the drawing.

The second question we will ask is what is the purpose of the new stage lighting requirement for? Is this going to be used for live performance or just simple stage use? It is important that they have this answer in hand.

Is there any entertainment show or drama or singing?

Will there be musical dance/Cultural dance/ any type of classical musically show?

For university – Graduation events, concert/Live show performances, speech/drama performance, banquets event, for convocation especially university.

Once we gather all these information and drawing we will start coming with a proposal complete with illustration like simple drawing lighting layout and catalogue. The whole process will take at least 7 days to provide a meaning design and details.

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Pinewood Studio at Iskandar Johor

Pinewood Studio at Iskandar Johor built two High Definition (HD) Television studios each with 12000 sq. ft. with facilities of self-climbing hoist, perimeter black curtain and studio lighting for HD filming. The project for the supply and installation of the lighting and curtain equipment is done by LSI Projects UK.

Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios is a studio complex located at a 20-hectare site in Nusajaya, Johor, managed by The Pinewood Studios Group. It is the largest development of a new film and television studio facility in Iskandar.

Artistic Controls worked with LSI Projects UK to assist the UK team to install the trunking and cabling work and where the local skills were needed.  Visit the project details on Pinewood Studio.

LED Studio Lighting In Bernama Studio

LED Lighting installed in Bernama Studio

Installing LED studio in Bernama TV new HD studio require some different setup.The studio size is about 7m by 10m and with limited height available a few lighting bar was mounted around the studio.  In the HD installation the lighting and the camera play the important role to capture the vibrant color of the object in full details. Then the DMX panel was installed around the studio to allow any spotlight to be hook up to the lighting desk.

The studio lighting consist of Brightcast LED 16”LED panel and 24” LED panel and ARRI L7-T LED Fresnel Spotlight. The Brightcast LED panel can vary the color temperature from 3200K to 5600K thus able to produce between tungsten and daylight light. These color temperature can be adjusted from on-board dial or via DMX lighting control desk.

The Arri L7-T which is a truly LED Fresnel fixture was installed as back light and key light given the necessary light to the object. The Arri L7-T is a direct replacement of conventional Fresnel spotlight.  The light emitting from L7-T is specially calibrated for optimum reproduction on broadcast for skin tones and rendered colors.

Stage Lighting System in UPM Bintulu

UPM Bintulu Auditoium

Artistic Controls was awarded by Frontra Enterprise Sdn Bhd to supply and install stage lighting, stage curtain for University Putra Malaysia (UPM) Bintulu in the new Multipurpose Hall.

Frontra Enterprise is the local company in Bintulu specialized in networking infrastructure, oil and gas related services and Audio Visual System. They have been in this industry for more than 15 years mostly in networking infrastructure business.

For the stage lighting we supply Zero 88 Dimmer Rack 6 and Zero 88 Jester 48 channels control desk. For the luminaries we supply about 40 nos of various spotlights which consist of 1kw profile, 1kw Fresnel, 1kw parcan and 500W three-compartment cyclorama.

For the Stage Curtain we supply JC Joel curtain to cover for the whole proscenium.

UiTM International Center UIC Upgrade their Sound System

UiTM International Center (UIC) in Shah Alam recently upgraded the sound system and projection system in their Multipurpose Hall in Bangunan Inovasi.

According to Prof. Noraida the director of UIC, they wanted to have a sound and projection facility to cater for various student activities and function like seminar and examination. The system has to be robust and easy to use with clarity in term of sound production and video projection. Students will be able to express themselves here as different cultural will require different setup.

The awarded contractor has engaged Artistic Controls as their specialist sound contractor to undertake to implement the sound and projection system in this important venue.

The UIC Multipurpose Hall has been beautifully done on the Interior design so we cannot afford to damage the interior during the installation. One of the problems is due to low level ceiling profile that mean only low profile speaker must be use here to match the overall layout.

To achieve that 4 x Dynacord VL262 Dual 6” Fullrange Loudspeaker is use here together with 2 x Dynacord Sub118 18” Subwoofer. For the power amplifier three Dynacord LX1600 and one Dynacord LX3000 is use to match the loudspeaker system. Overall 90db to 123db SPL can be achieve depending on the set up.

Another important processor use is the Dynacord DSP244 which is an excellent Loudspeaker management for good sound system to the hall. Mixer is by Dynacord CMS1600 Compact Mixer.

With the hall size at 16m x 12m the need of two projectors and two motorized projection screen is use to project to the left and right side. Sony VPL-FX40 is recommended as the image colour is quite natural according to UiTM. Extron Crosspoint Matrix Switcher is use to distribution various signal like component signal RGBHV and Video Signal to the projector and AV wall panel.

In Artistic Controls project dept we avocate to use Belden cable in all Audio Visual cabling worklike Belden microphone cable and Belden RG59 coaxial cable.

When the staff of the UIC use for the first time during the function in the multipurpose hall they were impress with the sound clarity and evenly sound coverage throughout the seating area. This is one of the important criteria when design the any large or small venue is to have evenly sound coverage inside the venue as much as possible.

Overall the sound is good and once the news is out that the hall is ready to use the hall booking start coming in.

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Palme Vietnam 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City

This year Palme 2010 was held in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam for the first time in Palme show. It was held in Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) from 22th July to 24th July 2010. As Vietnam becoming one of the fastest growing country in this region in using AV Equipment for the last few years their present in Vietnam is timely.

Palme Vietnam is the platform in Vietnam which brings together international manufacturers offering cutting-edge technologies in Professional Audio, Lighting, Audio Visual, Home Automation, and System Integration & Installation & Entertainment Technologies to Professional Trade Buyers & End-Users.

This year Palme show was great with quite a few well know international exhibitors here but not as big compare to previous Palme show in Singapore. There were many local exhibitors, Singapore Pavilion and Chinese Pavilion exhibitors.

On the first day there were quite a large crowd at the counter waiting to get the passes. Once inside the hall it was greeted with Electro Voice booth and Studio Due Booth.

For other sound booth are from Harman, Nexo, Beyer Dynamic, Meyer Sound, Audio Technica. For Lighting exhibitors there is ADB Lighting, Philips Lighting, Studio Due, Robe, Robert Juliat, Lutron, ETC, Spotlight, Zero 88, TheatreLight, Kupo, Prolyte, Clay Paky, Martin.

This year in Palme ADB Lighting is showing dimmers, consoles, lighting fixtures, suspensions and the new ALC4 LED Cyclorama light for broadcast and theatre. The new LED Cyclorama fixture powered by 4 x 40 W Lexel LED Source is most suitable for Theatre and TV Studio Lighting.

Next year 2011 Palme will be held in Hanoi Vietnam. We are looking forward to be there as well.

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Our Services

We work with a few partners to be their product distributor in Malaysia. Knowing the quality of the products and the manufacturers is an added advantage when proposing and designing to our customer.

We always like to stick to our recommended products range but we can also provides products from other manufacturer when requested. Having access to most manufacturers in and around the world Artistic Controls is able to supply the most suitable products according to your preference and budget.

We also built customized product design to suit the application either by outsourcing or using our own in house team.

It is therefore with this flexibility in product procurement and system engineering which enables Artistic Controls to specify and supply the products most suitable for your venue and in accordance with your budget and any personal preferences you may have.