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He want to be the next top Lighting Designer


Big Jay

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Lighting design isnt something you can just become because you want to be. Take me for example I know how to use most lighting desks Avo, Flying Pig etc but I have the artistic nature of a concrete wall!

 

I've always thought of myself similarly, although I have actually had to 'design' too and been told by a few (professionals!) that I'm not that bad at it, and have actually been hired (real paid work ;)) a few times in a design role (although more often as a technician) ... I'm my own worse critic but even then I still don't refer to myself as a lighting designer, some day perhaps...

 

That said at 16/17 I knew the basic principles, how to use a few manual boards and Strand GSX/LBX, that was about it ... it was by being around those that *did* know what they were doing that I learnt anything, not by watching YouTube tutorials (not that they don't have their place)

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I watch youtube tutorials quite often - usually adobe after effects, and they're great. However, even by the next day I have forgotten everything and have to go back and watch it again - they're not designed to teach you, they're designed to show you - so useless for anything except the video content.
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It is funny...until you meet one...and you need a superfast internet connection just to read the CV in a realistic "timeframe" (sic). Smalljosh knows who I mean...and quite a few others around our end of the country too...

 

And the "w" word was far too polite.

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