lighting rig
English
editNoun
editlighting rig (plural lighting rigs)
- The infrastructure for providing stage lighting.
- 1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:
- At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.
- 2005, Andrew O’Hehir, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, in Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor, Plexus, →ISBN, page 138:
- The economy of space is a marvel; the studio may seem cluttered, a kind of Middle-earthian junkyard ringed by the stalks of lighting rigs, but one glance into the monitor and there is Théoden’s massive throne room, carved straight out of the pages of Tolkien’s vast antiquity.
- 2010 May 22, Shane Hegarty, “Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bone”, in The Irish Times[1], Dublin: Irish Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-22:
- It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turned up to 11 but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig.