High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A followspot, sometimes known as a spot light, is a powerful stage lighting instrument which projects a bright beam of light onto a performance space. Followspots are controlled by a spotlight operator who follows actors around the stage. Followspots are most commonly used in concerts, musicals and large scale presentations where highlighting a specific, mobile, individual is critical. Followspots are sometimes located overhead on catwalks. In some theatres, they may also be located in the control booth or purposely built "spot booths" in addition to the catwalk. Follow spots may be arranged in a variety of patterns for coverage. For example they are aimed at the stage in front of them in theaters, located to the back or rear. This location can become problematic due to fan noise and/or any communication by headset communication from the spot operator speaking into their mic on the headset. In a circus and/or sports followspots may be arranged around the facility covering both sides and the ends. In a concert setting they may be in a position FOH while other positions may have the follow spot upstage used as back and/or top light. Some concerts use truss spots on a truss down stage but closer than catwalk spots in an amphitheater style catwalk layout. In other places spots are at the mercy of how the architect designed the space.