The Best Special Effects for Indoor Events

When planners go looking for the best special effects for an indoor event, they are really after one thing: the effect that makes a room gasp without the downsides that come with it indoors. Every option on the list does something well and costs something in return. Here is an honest look at the effects most events consider, and the one that does what none of the others can.

The usual indoor effects

The common indoor effects are laser systems, haze and fog, moving beams and washes, gobo projections that throw a logo onto a wall, and LED or video walls behind the stage. Lasers hit hard but work in beams and abstract patterns, and they need haze and a dark room to read. Gobos and video put your brand on a surface, not in the room. Each is good at what it does, and each keeps the effect on a wall or in a beam rather than out over the crowd.

The effect that forms real shapes in the air

An indoor drone light show is the one effect that builds a recognizable image floating in the air above the audience. A fleet of small, lit drones forms your logo, custom shapes, words, and color across the room, set to music and timed to the moment. It is not a beam and it is not a screen. It needs no pyrotechnics, so it works in venues where sparks and open flame are not allowed, and it puts the moment in the open air over everyone at once.

Why it stands out among effects

The other effects light the room; a drone show becomes the thing the room is looking at. It is the only indoor effect that forms a real, recognizable picture in the air, it carries a brand in a way a wall or a beam cannot, and it photographs better than anything else on the bill. For an event that wants one effect people will actually remember, it is the centerpiece rather than the atmosphere.

Proven indoors at scale

Illuminate Drones has flown indoor drone shows for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra across a full arena tour, performing over sold-out crowds night after night. Flying a show indoors, over a live audience, is exactly the discipline that makes it a fit for the events other effects only decorate.

Bring it to your event

If you want the one indoor effect your guests have never seen, an indoor drone show is built for it. See our indoor drone light shows, or request a quote for your event. Most indoor drone shows run between $20,000 and $50,000, with the most common around $25,000.