25SMOKE, LASERS, AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
CREATING ATMOSPHERE
Figure 25.1 Smoke-enhanced visual effect from Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas (Photograph by Aron Altmark)
Atmospheric effects are an essential addition to any live music or recorded music performance or as a theatrical effect. It is an ingredient that culminates your work as either simple illumination, colorizing, or casting shadows on physical objects, or goes beyond to enhance the air with vivid color that carve shapes before it appears on physical elements. The difference is vast. Creating atmosphere is the proverbial icing on the cake starting with haze that allows the beams of ...
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