How Do You Use Colors in Stage Lighting (Pt. 1)?

Colors in stage lighting are like mixing paints, but with light instead!

Imagine you're playing with color blocks, red, blue, yellow, and you can stack them up to make new colors. Stage lights work the same way: they use different colors of light to change how a scene looks.

Stage lights have something called filters, which are like colored cellophane. When light goes through a filter, it picks up that color. If you put a red filter on a light, the whole stage will look red, just like shining a flashlight through a piece of red paper.

You can mix different colored lights too! If you shine red and blue lights together, they make purple, just like when you mix red and blue paint on a palette. This is how stage designers can create amazing effects, like making a character look like they're underwater or turning the sky into nighttime.

It’s like having a box of crayons but for light, you can color the whole stage!