Laser Crowd Scanning

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Laser Crowd Scanning is and amazing visual effect at most live entertainment shows, especially concerts. But, there is a bunch of safety factors that go into play before the lasers can or may be used. Some of these safety factors include, knowing where the free space is amongst the venue, understanding the angle of the beams and knowing that the safe zones aren’t amongst the areas where a person in the crowd could be in line with the beams.
Before even wasting the time and effort to setup the lasers at the venue, the people of the building should provide a layout of the venue so the crew can adjust to where they shall be able to point the beams. The crew must also make sure that they may be able to use the lasers in the venue and be aware if they can even use the laser at all where they may be travelling.
The angles of the beams are a key role in safety. When positioning the lasers the crew needs to know where the lasers are going to be placed. They should also know where the act onstage may be moving to. If the lasers are placed at a lower height, the crew should be aware of the tallest person onstage to adjust the beam angles when the laser is at such a height.
After knowing the specifications on the venue, where the laser will be positioned, knowing the safe zones where the beam will be directed to and knowing the act that’s potentially the closest to the laser. The setup may begin after all the fine details are worked out.
When setting up a laser after all the safety requirements is met the main tools that are used from a control worker to do safe crowd scanning. Knowing where the beam hits the stage at its placement, a mirror would be taped down to the stage so the beam has something to redirect off of and not harm anyone do...

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... catchy to the eye like pyrotechnics. Lasers should only be used in an area that the operator feels safe to use them or as if it’s intended for a show. Crowd scanning is always the number one safety factor, think of the crows scanning safety as if it was pyrotechnics on that same stage and a performer right there. The crowd scanning is to control the safety of the fans so the operator can push the “Go Button” and not harm the crowd, whereas the pyrotechnics operator has to worry about the performers walking onto the flames. This is how crowd scanning works.

Works Cited

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/.../UCM119257.pdf http://www.laserist.org/guide-to-laser-shows.htm#audience-scanning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeuMY31qhyk&list=FLO5VAcukjIWGnRK0AYEessQ&index=69 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA2FqJn9ic

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