Lighting Training

At Mars Hill Church we desire to have well trained lighting technicians who are able to operate the equipment in front of them, in order to facilitate the Sunday services.

The Production Technology (ProTech) Department has worked with production managers at various campus to establish a training method which will work for the majority of campuses.  The training is broken down into a number of different levels, or tiers, each build on each other.  The thought being similar to building a house.  If you just build the walls and not use a foundation, the walls will eventually fail, causing the roof to come tumbling down. In the end we should finish with a well rounded and knowledgeable technician.  The Lighting training has been broken out into the following levels:

• Lighting 100 level – the foundations of lighting: everything from the Physics of light to terminology
• Lighting 200 level – the lighting technician:  Who is the the person? What is expected of them? How do they get to worship?
• Lighting 300 level – the equipment: What equipment is the Lighting Technician using? How does it operate?
• Lighting 400 level – operations: How to use the equipment is various situations
• Lighting 500 level – mentoring: At the campus grooming of the Lighting Technician.  This includes refinement of the person’s abilities.

ProTech will be the primary provider of training for the 100, 200, and 300 levels, primarily through this website.  The campuses and worship departments will be the primary provider of the 400 and 500 level training where it gets into the artistic side of how the lighting is put together.  This break down was determined based on the campuses having a better understanding of their own bands and the image/mood/theme the bands are trying to create, and ProTech having a good understanding of the equipment and fundamentals of the systems.  ProTech will continue to be involved in the 400 and 500 level training but in a secondary role.  As we build the new training information, if you have any information you would like to see here, please contact us.

Below is a break out of the Lighting training:

Lighting 100 – Fundamentals terminology What is Light Physics of Light Video inside the Lighting system? Analogue Vs Digital Control LED vs Conventional movers Light: the science (function) Light: the mystique (design) Light: sacred v mundane (how the world uses light) Signal Flow Control methods Playback v programmer	Lighting 200 – The Technician Expectations Sunday Procedure Operating is Worship Design is Worship
Lighting 300 – Equipment DMX Safety cable Lamps Conventionals: PAR Ellipsodial Fresnel PARnel Zip Strips Cycs Movers Spot/Profile Wash Digital Light Accessories Color scrollers iCues LED Fixtures Video Control Console Automated Conventional Computer	Lighting 400 – Operations what settings should I use? Why is hitting cues important? Sunday Procedure Sunday Procedure Design Hang Focus Gel Program Run Strike Focusing Tips Gels Troubleshooting
Lighting 500 – Mentoring Growing in worship Growing others in worship Creating/seeing training Designing opportunities.