Las Vegas

For my mom’s bachelorette party, we went to Thunder From Down Under in Las Vegas. To my surprise they had a great lighting display during the show. I included a picture of the front of house set up(Sorry that it's a bad picture. I was trying to be quick). Unfortunately, I couldn’t take any other pictures during the show. There was a point in the show where the men were gladiators. The colors the lighting designer used were very cold. They also used a large amount of red to mimic the blood spewed during the battle. When the main “Spartan” won his final battle, he was UC. He had a few red lights on him coming down from an electric behind, making his body look like a silhouette in a stream of blood. Then it went dark. White lights then flashed on him from behind and the sides, thus sculpting his body, adding contours to his armor, and the the shadow from his helmet landed on his face. It went dark again. Quickly they came back on him but this time he was center stage. They light were doing the same thing as before. It went dark a third time and when the flashing white lights came on again, he was DC directly in front of the audience members. This sequence was rapid and made this set magically giving him “god” like speed as he approached the audience. Throughout the earlier battles, they used strobes lights during the battles to make the fight appear to be more dramatic, smooth and provoke a sense of urgency and the need to survive. To me, with the combination of the music, it seemed to mimic the heart beat of the warriors as adrenaline pumps through their body.