Event lighting types guide by Edniverse

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Ambience Lighting / Wash Lights

Ambience Wash Lights
  • Using programmable LED wash lights, practically any colour can be created to suit different moods and themes.
  • Amount of wash lights depends on size of hall, venue or ballroom.

Moving Head Beam / Spot

Moving Head Beam Spot
  • Moving Heads are one of the most commonly used fixtures in any event.
  • It is programmable and versatile — can act as a spotlight, create wall/floor/ceiling gobo effects, or produce beam effects with the help of a haze or smoke machine.
  • Programmable parameters: position, colour (10–14 colours typically), zoom, gobos (rotatable/prism/pattern jitter) or any combination of these effects.

Moving Head Beam / Spot Gobo

  • Gobos are readily available designs built into moving head lights.
  • Gobos can be designed, customised and inserted into the moving head lights to be projected on any surface.

LED Uplight

  • LED Uplight is a method using LED fixtures to highlight and colour a particular spot or area.
  • Can be colour programmed separately to enhance wall panels, highlight pillars, light up drapes, or placed under crystals/blings to bring out the glitter.

Stage Lights

Stage Lights
  • Traditional par cans require massive current, dissipate lots of heat and can only do one colour at a time. These have been widely replaced with LED par cans — similar physical look but with full colour programming flexibility.
  • Moving Head LED is gaining popularity as these programmable fixtures can produce practically any colour, different positions and even zoom — minimising setup time and allowing precise focusing unlike fixed-angle par cans.

Follow Spot

Follow Spot
  • Follow spots are commonly used to follow objects — especially performers, bride & groom (speech or march-in), or any event where a highlight is needed.
  • Follow spots require a dedicated operator unlike moving head lights, but offer unique flexibility for live tracking.
  • Colour is interchangeable and the iris can be zoomed and focused.

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