A Study On The Application Of Theatrical Lighting In City Lighting Festival

The Lighting Festival has existed since ancient times.The Torch Festival,the Lantern Festival,and the Loy Krathong that have appeared in the history of East and West,are the predecessors of the Lighting Festival.The concept of the modern city lighting festival originated from the West.It is mainly based on the art of light effect performance as the main visual element,presentation means and communication carrier.It is no longer a purely artistic act,but a public event that aims to influence the city culture and shape the city business card.And it showing a development trend of increasing number,expanding scale,and increasing influence.Chinese cities such as Beijing,Shanghai,Guangzhou and other places have also joined this craze.It is not difficult to see that whether it is the ancient lighting festival or the modern lighting festival,as a kind of popular public entertainment,they are both very theatrical and dramatic.Based on the above background,this paper reviews the historical traditions of Eastern and Western Lighting Festivals and theatrical lighting,and analyzes and compares the artistic performance,aesthetic styles,and creative gains and losses of classic lighting festivals at home and abroad from the perspective of the theatrical lighting designer.At the same time,it is committed to exploring the artistic interaction between theatrical lighting art and the city lighting festival,aiming to discuss how the creative concepts,design techniques,and aesthetic elements in theatrical lighting design can be applied to the creative process of the city lighting art festival,and how to inject fresh blood and external power into the emerging cultural and tourism industry,while dialectically thinking about the derivation and development of theatrical lighting art.