🥕 Edible root 🔊 Sound blocker 💡 Light pattern device

gobo

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A plate placed in front of a light to make patterns on stage or in photos

noun
/ˈɡoʊboʊ/

Specialized

: gobo

The designer used a gobo to project a star pattern on the backdrop during the play.

When their their name is on the stand, it's a stand that holds up a light or a gobo.

Examples

In photography, a gobo can help shape the light and add interesting textures to the shot.
Gobos on lights and lens shades were essential to prevent flare and glare.

Academic text (1996)
You Chuck them into the gobo head, set it all up.
Now this book doesn't only just show you illustrations of types of gobo head clamps for C stands and baby slide arms and apple boxes and brushes and things.
He adjusted the gobo in front of the spotlight to create a unique visual effect.

Surface Forms

gobo singular

gobos plural

Etymology

The word gobo in lighting may come from the idea 'go-between', because the small metal or glass plate sits between the light and the stage to shape or block the beam.