Lighting, Color, and Non-Church Related Events

by | Mar 2, 2023 | Lighting, Production

In the previous installment of this series, we reviewed Experiential and Emotionally Connective Music, the second of the “Five Benefits of Immersive Color in the House of Worship”. In this chapter, we’ll look at special events outside of church, and how they can benefit from lighting.

Hosting community events outside of normal church activities is a good way to raise your profile in the community and increase traffic through your facilities. Events like holiday celebrations, fall and spring festivals, clothes drives, blood drives, public school events, and carnivals help to build a bridge to the community and grow your congregation. Color-changing lights can be used to highlight these events, drawing attention to the space, and help to reinforce a theme such as using patriotic red, white, and blue colors for the Fourth of July or for hosting public elections. Weddings, funerals, retirement parties, or other celebrations can also benefit from splashes of beautiful color accents or a color wash to completely transform a space.

Using colored light can be very cost-effective as well and using LED color makes it very easy to transform with the push of a button or the click of a mouse to suit the occasion. Whether it calls for Christmas colors or an Easter sunrise, fixtures like the Chroma-Q Color Force II 12, 48, and 72, and the PROLIGHTS EclCyclorama 100 can be used to wash large swaths of surface area in environments that are protected from the elements, and the EclProfile FS can provide image projection as well as color light projection. For lighting large surfaces, walls, softgoods like drops and curtains, LED color wash fixtures like the Chroma-Q Color One 100X can provide a wide gamut of saturated and pastel colors.

Next: Color is the new stained glass…

Sign Up for Connections, the Worship Facility Newsletter!

NEW THIS WEEK

When Directing Multi-Camera Video, Should I Cut or Dissolve?

What are the best practices that directors should know when they are using a multi camera set up to capture video for an event? I follow various Facebook groups focused on church and media technology and also sometimes contribute to these. The main reason I follow...

Facility Stewardship Requires Creative Thinking

I have been reading a book by John Maxwell entitled How Successful People Think. It's a short and easy read...you should pick up a copy. One of the sections of the book is on Creative Thinking. I have always thought of myself as a creative thinker and so this section...

Worship Facility and CFX Offer Scholarship Program

Do you know a small church that would benefit from attending high-quality education to improve the impact of their worship production and buildings?Apply or help us spread the word!As part of our commitment to education that helps all churches, we at CFX and...

Stop! Church Social Media Content Requires Branding

Do you wonder if you’re wasting time on your church social media content? You could be if you’re creating random posts about various themes and events. There’s a better way. It’s called branding: Identifying what makes the content your church’s, and controlling it so...