1. 3D Visualization of Improvisational Lighting in a Concert Venue
Applying GrandMa 3D & GrandMa 2 software to a 3D venue
Created by: Timothy Hottinger

2. Abstract
During my time at NYCCT I have focused my learning into the Lighting Design and Video Production aspects of theater and studio, with what I have learned I have successfully created live stage lighting design plots in my Lighting Design Course and in my work experience.
My goal in my career is to become a Live Concert Lighting Designer and for my culmination project I feel as though my skills will be put to the test by displaying a improvisational lighting design in a venue in GrandMA 3D (3D Visualization) and applying a strategic concert lighting design to the venue I chose. The venue I chose is a model of an outdoor show mobile amphitheater often used for live music festivals.
By using my skills of Lighting Design, to do this I will act as the lighting designer as if I were pitching this design to a real band or project manager which would include budgeting out the equipment rental, scheduling, and listing deliverables such as a light plot and an instrument schedule. I am looking at this project as a way for me to fine tune my skills in Lighting Design. The main design of this project is going to be for a band called STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) for their new song “Move My Peeps”. I think this song will give me a lot of creative space to create a cool design.

3. Methods
GrandMA3D is a 3D Visualization program that helps designers recreate a space and design in it when one may not have endless lighting resources available. It gives lighting designers like me the chance to show everyone what they can do with a professional lighting rig.
This program helps designers finalize or showcase a design before putting it in a venue making it a very good tool to help designers preview their design to their client.
I will learn and master this program by watching tutorials and reading the user guide. I already have some basic knowledge in this program but I hope to master it well enough that I could potentially teach it to anyone.

4. Schedule Task: Planned: Actual: Preliminary drafting of my 3D Venue
Week of 3/21/16 Hours: 8
Week of 3/21/16
Hours: 4
Light Plot Drafted
Week of 3/28/16
Hours: 8
Hours: 10
Hanging lights in 3D Venue
Week of 4/4/16
Hours: 6
Hours: 14
Programming lights
Week of 4/11/16
Hours: 12
Hours: 16
Practice Live Light to song chosen
Week of 4/25/16
Perfect design for more than one song
Week of 5/2/16
Presentation
5/13/16
Total hours: 56 64

5. Light Plot

6. Lighting rental Estimate
Fixtures:
Quantity:
Price:
Totals:
Clay Paky aLeda B-Eye K20 Shapes 20
1 unit for 1 week rental: $275.00
$5,500.00
Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1200 Easy 6
1 unit for 1 week rental:
$425.00
$2,550.00
Martin Atomic 3000 Strobe 7
1 unit for 1 week rental: $40.00
$280.00
Subtotal: $8,330.00Type Type equation here.

7. Resources Required
The resources I require include my personal computer, City tech school computers, GrandMA 3D, Lightwright 5, Vectorworks and the ability to use the GrandMA 2 Lite console provided by City tech. Most of my resources are available to me except the GrandMA 2 Lite which I can only use under the consent of my technical advisor.

8. Expected Budget
My personal budget for this project is $500 I will purchase any tool or resource that I may have to help me succeed with my design. I may have to purchase Lightwright 5 because the student edition only allows us to use a certain number of fixtures for each show. I have a budget of $500 that I can spend for this and I believe I will only spend about $100 maybe even less.
I ended up not spending any money on this project at all because of the convenience of using free and open source software provided by various lighting companies.

9. Project Deliverables Lighting Plot & Instrument Schedule
Budget for Design
Live 3D Visualization on PC
3D Model (within program) of Venue
Poster and Open lab Portfolio

10. Outcome & Results
GrandMa 3D is not an easy program to master. It takes time and patience to create a lighting design in a 3D venue. Tasks that I thought would take a week actually turned out to take 3 weeks in some cases.
With the time and skills that I have I believe I succeeded in my goal to create live concert lighting design that I could potentially pitch to a client.
I would recommend this program to other lighting designers out there because I believe it is a very helpful tool.