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Enhance Your Stage Productions With Gels for Lighting and Rosco Filters
Special lighting for a stage production enhances the performance and adds a sense of place and mood to a set. Whether the event is a professional theater production, concert, or even a school play, the stage lighting designer can use gels for lighting and Rosco filters for special effects and artistry.
Color brings life and vibrancy to the stage. Rosco filters and gels for lighting can create setting illusions ranging from a storm on the high seas to an intimate candlelit room.Lighting designers use these tools to give the audience a sense of location, time, or mood, or to enhance particular scenes of a production.The right lighting can evoke emotions like excitement, sadness, tension, fear, joy or more just by color alone.There's an extensive palette of interchangeable color gels for lighting for designers to choose from.
Rosco filters and gels for lighting are actually colored plastic sheets.These thin sheets of polycarbonate or polyester are placed in front of a lighting fixture in the path of the beam.They work by subtracting certain wavelengths of color; a red filter absorbs blue and green, allowing only the red wavelengths to pass through.The light source under the filter must emit a full spectrum, because filters work through a subtractive rather than additive process.
Gels come in sheets, rolls, or tubes to suit your lighting specifications.They are also available in various sizes depending on your needs. Gels fade or melt over time, some colors more quickly than others, so it's essential to replace them regularly. Dark green and blue lights typically burn out fastest because they absorb the most infrared energy.The life of a Rosco filter or lighting gel depends on the color, the instrument and lamp used, the dimmer level a filter generally runs at, and the amount of time the light is running.
Manufacturers provide swatch books that contain a small piece of each gel color available. When it is necessary to replace gels, a color code allows you to reorder. These books provide you the opportunity to choose between a wide variety of colors to find the perfect combination for your stage production.
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