Illustration of the jet schematic and the resulting light curve when the reconnection layer angle θ′ is changing, while the viewing angle θ_obs and the magnetic field strength B remain constant. With the perfect alignment of θ′ and θ_obs we obtain maximum Doppler boosting, resulting in very high fluxes. For increasingly misaligned reconnection layer orientations, the effect of the boosting is diminished. The relative orientation of θ′ has a greater effect on the boosting of the observed emission than θ_obs. In addition, with aligned layer orientations the resulting light curve consists of the superpositions of the large and small plasmoids, possessing high amplitude flares with short timescales. With more misaligned layer orientations, the shape of the light curve is dominated by the large-sized plasmoids possessing little short-term variability. Jet schematic adapted from Christie et al. (2019).