Son et Lumiere: a musical and lighting extravanganza

During production work, there have been many opportunities to get involved in other events around RADA, one of which was Son et Lumiere. This translates as ‘sound and light’ and is a spectacular display of live lighting programming to music.

The two minute shows were put together by the second year lighting specialists, George and Cassie. Having just come out of the lighting and sound rotation, I volunteered to help with the ‘Get In’ (setting up) and ‘Get Out’ for the shows. The rig was huge, to incorporate all the moving lights; it took about six people per bar to rig the truss and I learnt how to set pyros (pyrotechnics – indoor fireworks in this case) up. I’m proud to have been a part of something so impressive! The Stop-Motion film of the Get In is very funny.

We had time set aside in our timetable for watching the show, it was so stunning, I’d love to design something like that! The get out was fun too, so many cables to coil and I enjoyed the responsibility of making sure all the exciting hired equipment went into the right boxes and was packed into the goods lift safely in order. Do watch the recordings of the two shows below.

I'm off for Christmas now, but will be back in January with more news from my studies at RADA. Wishing you a lovely Christmas.