How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:40 am
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Want. Seems like a cool gig...
Want. Seems like a cool gig...
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How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
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Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:53 am
strap on a pair of testicles and speak to the man in charge.
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:17 am
Soiree wrote:strap on a pair of testicles and speak to the man in charge.
Right. I mean, do you need background in it or certificates or something… like you would to be the sound guy...
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:19 am
This is a bad job to have when you are on drugs.
(or maybe it's a good one...)
(or maybe it's a good one...)
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:44 am
In that line of work there is no substitute for experience.
and I do think acid would be a good choice when playing with lazers and LEDs.
and I do think acid would be a good choice when playing with lazers and LEDs.
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:59 am
Lighting Technician course would be a go first.
like soiree said, experience is a huge factor in that game.
like soiree said, experience is a huge factor in that game.
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:27 am
I know a guy who does that now and then, he got to the position where he's allowed to do it because he's been working his way up from bus-boy for like 6 years
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:25 pm
My Dad makes software based lighting controllers that tend to be in bigger clubs like Fabric, its not an easy thing to get into because its a specific program you need to be able to use and there are loads of different programs and lighting desks out there- so its a niche skill you can only really get with experience.
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:36 pm
I really hate those guys.
stnuc
stnuc
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:39 pm
mIrReN wrote:I really hate those guys.
stnuc
What's to hate about someone controlling lights?
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:55 pm
i know a light tech and he busts his balls sometimes for almost no money and has been doing so for at least 5 years, so yeh, you got to work for it
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:10 pm
just turn em all off. easy peasy
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:17 pm
cause they hurt my eyes ?Mr Hyde wrote:mIrReN wrote:I really hate those guys.
stnuc
What's to hate about someone controlling lights?
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:19 pm
you tell me?mIrReN wrote:cause they hurt my eyes ?Mr Hyde wrote:mIrReN wrote:I really hate those guys.
stnuc
What's to hate about someone controlling lights?
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:51 pm
yes I just told u
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:21 pm
Should be pitch black imo, easier to spot the bouncers with their maglites while sneaky smoking 
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:17 pm
Nah you don't really need certificates in lighting to get involved. Just get yourself out there and be polite. My mate ran the lighting rig for a decent drum & bass night one time just by turning up early, being genuinely interested and polite, eager and enthusiastic towards the lighting technician. Watch, be willing to learn, and eager to help. The technician had enough shit on his plate already so he let my mate have a quick go, and then do it for the whole night once he realised he was good at it. With that little bit of experience my mate got a taste and went on to pursue lighting further. Now he's running the whole sound & light for an international theatre company. He did go to uni in order to get this far, but he got the lighting gig for the d&b night just by eating some MDMA, being friendly and then doing his 'job' enthusiastically.ketamine wrote:do you need background in it or certificates or something… like you would to be the sound guy...
Just get out there, speak to some club owners, technicians, etc. Everybody loves an eager volunteer!
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:06 pm
I do the lights etc for theatres and small clubs 
I literally got there through finding a kid at school who did it and following him, being his 'assistant' when he did school productions and even doing a few of my own (We had really advanced kit for a school, Jands Vista, Vista decks, Moving heads, Parcans, Scrollers, Scanners, the works). After which I got good at it and took over from him on a few occasions, added that to my resume and using my contacts
I literally got there through finding a kid at school who did it and following him, being his 'assistant' when he did school productions and even doing a few of my own (We had really advanced kit for a school, Jands Vista, Vista decks, Moving heads, Parcans, Scrollers, Scanners, the works). After which I got good at it and took over from him on a few occasions, added that to my resume and using my contacts Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:13 pm
My friend and ex-housemate was personally asked by Radiohead to be their projectionist. He ended up going on tour with them across the US, Australia and Japan.
He got that gig by being really good. I was living with him when he first starting getting into projections.
He got that gig by being really good. I was living with him when he first starting getting into projections.
Re: How do you get the job controlling lights at a club?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:16 pm
one of my mums mates does this for the concorde in brighton