Ray Villasenor - Camron Ware

Bootcamp

Basic Lighting Set-Up

The first step in putting together a great lighting system is knowing what tools are available to you and how to use them. This class provides an overview of the different categories of lighting fixtures: par cans, effects, intelligent lighting. Each light has its place and is suited to achieving a specific goal -- whether it’s washing a wall with color, illuminating a speaker, or creating dramatic effects on stage. You’ll see with your own eyes how different types of fixtures can work together to
create the perfect lighting system for your house of worship.

Intelligent Lighting/Introduction to DMX

With today’s intelligent moving lights and a DMX controller, the possibilities are endless! This class will give you a basic understanding of DMX, the lighting industry’s standard control protocol, and how it’s used to program and run intelligent lights (we’ll make it fun and easy – you don’t have to be a lighting engineer!). You’ll learn how to set up lights on a DMX controller, how fixture traits such as pan, tilt and dimming are assigned to different DMX channels, and how to create and playback your own lighting programs.

Lighting Maintenance

If you take proper care of your lights, they’ll perform reliably and last longer. We’ll teach you how to clean your fixtures, perform routine maintenance steps, and handle minor service issues yourself – to keep your lights up and running, and save time and money.

WATS Day 1

Lighting Design Theory

Lighting is about more than just illumination – it’s an amazing artistic tool for creating any type of atmosphere or environment you desire. Want to know how shadows can be used to heighten drama onstage, or how chasing lights can
simulate movement in a room? All this and more will be demonstrated in this class, along with the theory behind uplighting, backlighting, dimming, color washes, and how they can be used to create countless different looks and moods. Whether you’re a novice or have had prior experience in lighting design, be prepared to learn some
fascinating tricks of the trade.

Lighting for Worship

Theory is one thing, but you want to actually be able to use what you’ve learned about lighting design in real-world applications. This session teaches how to apply the design theory lessons taught in the previous class specifically to the
worship environment. Instructor Ray Villasenor draws on his many years’ experience working with houses of worship to show you how to effectively and creatively use professional design concepts for lighting all areas of your facility -- from the main sanctuary to the youth center. He will also show you how to meet the challenges posed by the “multi-tasking” that most church lighting systems are required to perform today in providing illumination for everything from sermons, to concerts, to live video streaming.

PC Lighting Control 1 (Windows-based)

Like just about everything else, computers are being used increasingly to run lights, thanks to the development of flexible, user-friendly DMX lighting control software. In this class, students receive an introduction to one of today’s most popular Windows-based DMX lighting control software programs, Compu Show from Elation. Capable of controlling both moving heads and LEDs, Compu Show makes it easy to design and run a light show right from your laptop or desktop computer. Students will learn how to build their show using Compu Show’s new EasyTime editor, simply by “dragging” effects to a timeline on the screen. They will also experience Compu Show’s powerful 3D Visualization software, which allows designers to “visualize” how a light show they create in their imagination will actually look in the room.

WATS Day 2

PC Lighting Control 2 (Macintosh-based)

Aimed at students who work in the Mac world, this class teaches computer lighting control using Elation’s platform-independent EmuLATION DMX software. Thanks to EmuLATION’s brand-new highly intuitive graphical user interface, students will learn quickly how to create a multi-faceted lighting presentation, incorporating intelligent lights, LEDs, dimmers and various other effects. We will also show how you can conveniently trigger your light show from an iPhone or other web-ready mobile device, using EmuLATION’s Rigger’s Remote Application, which comes included with the software.

LED & Energy Efficient Lighting Technologies

New lamp technologies such as solid-state LEDs are rapidly changing the world of lighting! This is great news for lighting users, since these new sources are much more energy-efficient than conventional lamps, they run much longer without burning out (50,000-100,000 hours!), and in the case of LEDs, they open up amazing possibilities for mixing an infinite number of colors. See what all the excitement is about! This class will not only familiarize you with LEDs, you’ll also learn about another cutting-edge lamp breakthrough, Platinum technology from Elation and Philips, which has given rise to fixtures with 575-watt brightness at double the energy-efficiency and half the size.

Lighting Design Hands-On

This is where you get to put everything you’ve learned the past three days to practical use -- in a hands-on workshop with a live stage! All students will have the opportunity to design and create their own light show, working with a variety of fixtures that have been set up on a simulated real stage setting. Have fun expressing your creativity, and enhance your understanding of lighting as you only can through actual experience as a designer.

Lighting Review

Now it’s time to solidify all the concepts you’ve learned. Instructor Ray Villasenor will present a review of the course material covered during the past three days. He will also be available to answer questions and provide helpful tips for students’ specific lighting projects.