Black Eyes Peas Concert Central Park, New York City.

Back in September of 2011, I won a couple of tickets to a free Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park, New York City. This was a couple of months before I started school at Full Sail. Even though I didn’t know anything about lighting, I was excited to see all the gear that was being used and the type of production they had. The production was more than I thought it would be for a free concert and the concert lasted more than 2 hours, which was amazing.

The lighting design was what amazed me the most about the production. It was as much of a light show, as it was a musical show. They were moving lights and lasers going to the beat of the music and others just wandering and waiting for the next section of the song to start. I’m not too sure what lights they were using, but I was standing about 70 yards away from the stage and the lights were still blinding me from the distance. There was a point in the concert, I decided to look behind me, and there had to be at least 50 laser beams pointed at the trees and buildings surrounding the park. The lights were acting as if they had a mind of their own and were enjoying the music themselves. When a slower song was playing, the lights were playing along with the music as if they weren’t just jamming to the last fast paced song. It’s as if the lights weren’t capable of doing all the movement and strobing they were doing before. There was also a huge LED wall that was used for video, and it was also apart of the light show. It created backlight for some cues and even had strobing effects during some songs. The overall production was wonderful and the lighting design was amazing. After that show, I was excited to know that would be learning about moving lights sometime in the near future.

Here are some pictures that I took that night.