Lighting solutions for events
When planning an event, there are many factors to take into consideration to ensure its success with your guests, this includes: your budget, the location and date, alongside the number of attendees, catering suppliers, security and more.
One essential element that should not be overlooked within your plan is lighting. Not only can event lighting support you in achieving a desired theme, but it can also support the safety and efficiency in which it runs.
Here, we will discuss the top solutions for event lighting, whether you are holding a domestic party, a wide scale festival, or anything in-between. With our specialist advice and support, it can be assured that your event will run smoothly with Brandon Hire Station, whilst hitting your budget through our wide range affordable lighting solutions.
Using Lighting to Your Advantage
For any event, you will find a wide variety of lighting solutions that will support you in generating effective scenery for attendees. This includes:
Ambient and Decorative Lighting
Ambient and Decorative lighting helps to support the specific mood and theme of your event, focusing less on practicality. This type of lighting aids in the immersion of attendees, using lighting colour, temperature and brightness.
To achieve this, lighting solutions could include: ceiling lights, downlights and track lights.
Accent lighting
This type of lighting uses direction to alter audience focus, creating a streamline and detail orientated experience for all attendees of your event. To achieve this effect, we suggest using Wall Lights, Recessed Spotlights and Table Lamps as solutions.
Task lighting
Sometimes event lighting needs to be practical to ensure the safety of all who are involved, supplying bright and glare free illumination for the performance of tasks.
You might also need to consider lighting solutions for catering staff, cloakroom attendants, storage areas and staff zones. Here, LED Portable Work Lights might be the best solution.
Important things to Consider when Hiring Lighting for your Event
There are a variety of factors to take into consideration when choosing lighting that will best suit your event, ensuring the highest quality and theming for your attendees.
What type of venue will you be using?
It can be argued that the venue you choose for your event is one of the most important stages of planning, but did you know that you can use lighting to heighten its theming?
For example, when planning a wedding in a marquee or barn location, the hire of our LED Festoon Lighting can heighten the intimate and romantic atmosphere already created through the venue chosen. In contrast to this, using LED coloured lighting with strobe options might be the best solution for an indoor party.
Will your event be indoors or outdoors?
When planning the lighting of your event, it is important to consider the surrounding conditions.
Indoor event lighting sees endless solutions through the consistent weather and structures available. It doesn’t matter if you are planning a concert or a formal corporate event, Brandon Hire Station’s specialist team can provide you with the best lighting solutions to match your individual needs.
On the other hand, any solutions for your outdoor event lighting may need a more tailored approach. Here, weather conditions, the time of day and the scale of your event can all individually affect the lighting and visual appearance of the venue, using non-corrosive and easy to transport equipment will heighten its suitability and longevity.
Lighting for Specific Events
Depending on the event you are holding, there will be different methods of lighting to consider:
Corporate Event Lighting
Corporate events are a great way to engage both employees and customers – wowing your guests with effective lighting solutions is vital for immersing them into your experience.
Conference planning calls for, clean, static and professional lighting, as to not distract your audience from your company’s message and professionalism. However, to contrast this, award ceremonies and product launches leave room for more creativity.
Using colour and lighting effects with the hire of spotlights can help to achieve this. You could also consider branding your lighting solutions through neon signage to encourage further conversation around your company.
Concert and Festival Lighting
Lighting is one of the most important aspects of any concert or festival. Creating the right mood for each moment will immerse your audience, presenting an unforgettable experience for all who attend.
Here, we recommend the use of coloured lighting such as LED Adjustable Floodlights to support the loud and exciting atmosphere you wish to achieve.
Car Park Lighting
If your guests are going to be parking outside your event, you’ll need not only Pedestrian Barriers and other traffic management solutions, but high quality lighting is essential to the safe operation of a car park, avoiding dangerous or illegal parking, traffic congestion or accidents. It also ensures visibility of pedestrians.
The Diesel LED Mini Lighting Tower is a good solution for car parks, as it can provide 1,600 square metres of illumination coverage and can run for 30 hours at a time. It also boasts a rugged design and can easily withstand inclement weather conditions. This also features LED bulbs, which are known to have a longer lifespan and lower power requirements than traditional bulbs.
Don't Forget Safety!
Although you will want to produce the most unforgettable event with breath-taking lighting solutions, it is important to remember the necessity of safety and the legal regulations you must follow.
Different activities require a variety of lighting levels to be safe, meaning it is important to have access to the correct levels when completing a task. An easy solution to this could be the use of portable work lights, allowing individuals to hold individual levels of visibility.
It is also important to be conscious of trip hazards. With extensive lighting solutions comes many potential trip opportunities for anyone in the area.
Before you begin planning your next event, don’t forget to consider your lighting hire options, in order to ensure that your guests are dazzled and immersed by your consistent theming.
Our team of experts at Brandon Hire Station are always here to help discuss your individual hire needs and queries.
