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Lighting Design Blog by Mike Wood

The trailer control room during a show: three large monitors carrying TerraNova-branded program, multiview, and camera feeds, an operator in a headset at the desk.

· broadcast · video

TerraNova Equestrian Center

PTZ cameras, IDFs, a couple of miles of fiber, two simultaneous live streams, and a gator: the broadcast system a former student and I have been building on a horse farm.

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The trailer control room during a show: three large monitors carrying TerraNova-branded program, multiview, and camera feeds, an operator in a headset at the desk.

TerraNova Equestrian Center

· broadcast · video

A silhouetted man stands center stage under a tight overhead special; a glowing red SUN sign and a string of multicolored holiday bulbs frame the bar set behind him

Owning The Darkness: Embracing The Shadow

· production · qanda

Effects Trainer, featured image

Effects Trainer
Harmony in Highlands: The Making of The Burnt Part Boys, featured image

Harmony in Highlands: The Making of The Burnt Part Boys
Reddit AMA, featured image

Reddit AMA
TST ETC First Monday 2025, featured image

TST ETC First Monday 2025
Focus Tapes, featured image

Focus Tapes
Adobe Lightroom Library module showing a grid of theatrical production photos from a dozen shows, organized by album in the sidebar

LD Photography

· production

An InDesign layout of the magic sheet for The Twenty-Sided Tavern, showing labeled lighting positions and channel numbers across the page, with the show's logo in the corner

Magic Sheets: Revisited

· paperwork

Lifting Com Audio, featured image

Lifting Com Audio

USA-829 Table Talk
Mac Quick Action – Create Folders, featured image

Mac Quick Action – Create Folders
Live Stream: Eos Color Effects, featured image

Live Stream: Eos Color Effects
Live Stream: Dance Recital Quickstart, featured image

Live Stream: Dance Recital Quickstart
Live Stream: Vor, featured image

Live Stream: Vor
Hang Tapes, featured image

Hang Tapes
Eos & Followspot Control, featured image

Eos & Followspot Control
DIY Pixel Bars, featured image

DIY Pixel Bars
Vor – Production Documentation, featured image

Vor – Production Documentation

· product review · production

FileMaker #5.2, featured image

FileMaker #5.2
FileMaker #5.1, featured image

FileMaker #5.1
LD-At-Large Podcast, featured image

LD-At-Large Podcast

· fun · podcasts · qanda

FileMaker #4.1, featured image

FileMaker #4.1
FileMaker #4.2, featured image

FileMaker #4.2
FileMaker #4.3, featured image

FileMaker #4.3
MIXBOOK Unboxing & Review, featured image

MIXBOOK Unboxing & Review

· product review · production

LiveDesign: 31 Days of Plots, featured image

LiveDesign: 31 Days of Plots

· paperwork

FileMaker #3.1, featured image

FileMaker #3.1
FileMaker #3.2, featured image

FileMaker #3.2
FileMaker #3.3, featured image

FileMaker #3.3
2019 Economic Impact, featured image

2019 Economic Impact

· covid19 · politics · production

Mike on the Casting Light Podcast, featured image

Mike on the Casting Light Podcast

· fun · production · qanda

FileMaker #1.5, featured image

FileMaker #1.5
FileMaker #1.1, featured image

FileMaker #1.1
FileMaker #1.2, featured image

FileMaker #1.2
FileMaker #1.3, featured image

FileMaker #1.3
FileMaker #1.4, featured image

FileMaker #1.4
Top Priorities for Entertainment Workers in Subsequent COVID-19 Legislation, featured image

Top Priorities for Entertainment Workers in Subsequent COVID-19 Legislation

· politics · production

Vectorworks, featured image

Vectorworks

· paperwork

Backstage Perspectives Interview, featured image

Backstage Perspectives Interview
FAQs, featured image

FAQs

· meta · qanda

Mike’s Vectorworks Workflow – Take 2, featured image

Mike’s Vectorworks Workflow – Take 2
Webinar #6 – Team Workflow, featured image

Webinar #6 – Team Workflow
Webinar #5 – Production Photography for LDs, featured image

Webinar #5 – Production Photography for LDs
Webinar #3: The Basics of Color, featured image

Webinar #3: The Basics of Color
Webinar #4: Lighting in a Pinch, featured image

Webinar #4: Lighting in a Pinch
Live Demo: Paperwork Management Portal (FileMaker), featured image

Live Demo: Paperwork Management Portal (FileMaker)

· paperwork · pmp

Mike’s Vectorworks Workflow, featured image

Mike’s Vectorworks Workflow

· paperwork

Webinar #2: Lighting Plots & Paperwork, featured image

Webinar #2: Lighting Plots & Paperwork

· paperwork

Webinar #1: Stage Lighting: The Art, The Science, The Profession, featured image

Webinar #1: Stage Lighting: The Art, The Science, The Profession
FileMaker #2.6, featured image

FileMaker #2.6
FileMaker #2.5, featured image

FileMaker #2.5
FileMaker #2.4, featured image

FileMaker #2.4
Essential Workflow Tools, featured image

Essential Workflow Tools

· paperwork · production

FileMaker #2.3, featured image

FileMaker #2.3
FileMaker #2.2, featured image

FileMaker #2.2
FileMaker #2.1, featured image

FileMaker #2.1
Stamp in the Tech Rehearsal Process, featured image

Stamp in the Tech Rehearsal Process

· production

Instagram Questions: Vol 2, featured image

Instagram Questions: Vol 2

· qanda

Instagram Questions: Vol 1, featured image

Instagram Questions: Vol 1

· qanda

Analog Patch System, featured image

Analog Patch System

· production

Magic Sheets, featured image

Magic Sheets

· paperwork

The Producers in the Park 2018, featured image

The Producers in the Park 2018

· production