Ask yourself a question: what do you like about those night clubs? Is this the atmosphere, the music, the people? I believe the answer is too simple – this is the mixture of everything: music, atmosphere, your mood and, of course, lighting. Usually people prefer those clubs where lighting is well chosen. According to the survey, people do not usually remember the interior, but the lighting is among the top three things that stick in their memory. The majority of disco bar owners know this fact and use it to their advantage.
Beyond doubt night clubs frequently install fancy , fashionable lighting and special effects, such as flashing lights of many colors, moving light beams, and smoke machines. A disco ball is an important feature of nightclub lighting. A disco ball is a rotating football-sized spheroid hung from the ceiling, covered with numerous small flat light-reflectors, with a light beam aimed at it. The fascinating thing is that light reflections produce a large number of moving illumination spots on the floor and on people.
Another thing that usually attracts visitors to nightclubs is foam parties. Some nightclubs arrange foam parties where a dance floor is filled with soap lather that may not be too slippery. Correctly arranged lighting makes such party sexy and unforgettable.
Another thing is modern stage lighting which is a versatile tool in production of opera, dance, theater, and other presentation arts. Various kinds of stage lighting devices are used to highlight stage effects, provide dramatic background scenes and so on. Nightclubs can adopt some of these light effects to create the right kind of ambience needed for it. Imagine a stage in a disco bar where majestic girls dance cancan in flamboyant lights, or go-go’s dance to soft rock in neon. In fact, there are some general principles for lighting a stage, but no rigid rules can be applied in order to allow imaginative special effects for a night club. Some of these principles are illumination, focus, mood, revelation of form, projection elements, location and time, selective visibility, and story . Finally, illumination means ability to see what is going on stage. Any illumination plan will be failing if an audience has to strain to see characters, unless this is a clear intention. Revelation of form means changing the perception of shapes onstage, mostly three-dimensional stage elements. Focus denotes directing the audience’s concentration to an area of a stage, or distracting them from another. Mood means the tone of a view or environment. For example, brightly pink light has a completely different effect than In conclusion colors and types of lights can help achieve a desired effect of depicting almost anything, such as