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Stage Lighting

Lighting design helps create the appropriate mood and atmosphere for a production through the controllable qualities of light, including distribution, intensity, color, and movement. Stage lighting serves key functions like visibility, selective focus, and modeling through revealing form with highlights and shadows. A lighting plot is a scale drawing that maps out the lighting design and instruments, which must be properly hung, assigned numbers, and programmed into lighting cues during rehearsals.

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Stage Lighting

Lighting design helps create the appropriate mood and atmosphere for a production through the controllable qualities of light, including distribution, intensity, color, and movement. Stage lighting serves key functions like visibility, selective focus, and modeling through revealing form with highlights and shadows. A lighting plot is a scale drawing that maps out the lighting design and instruments, which must be properly hung, assigned numbers, and programmed into lighting cues during rehearsals.

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* Stage Lighting

Technical Theater Design and Production 1-4


*Lighting Design-
“ties together all the visual
elements of the production
and help create an
appropriate mood and
atmosphere that heighten the
audience’s understanding and
enjoyment of the play.
* Controllable Qualities
of Light
*Distribution-
*The direction the light
approaches an area, actor, or
object
*The shape and size of the
light
*The quality or clarity of the
light
* Controllable Qualities of
Light
* Intensity-The actual amount of light. The
level or brightness or darkness hitting the
area, actor, or object

* Movement-
* Timed duration of the light cues
* Movement on stage
* Movement off stage EX: Follow spot

* Color-can greatly assist the audience’s


understanding of the show
* Functions of Stage
Lighting

*Visibility- Making everyone


and everything seen on stage

*Selective Focus- Directing the


audience's view to a specific
place
* Functions of Stage
Lighting
*Modeling- revealing the form
of a piece through highlights
and shadows

*Mood- Creating the feeling


of the scene or setting of
the show
* Lighting Vocab
* Lighting rehearsal- time
devoted to setting the
intensity levels and timing
for the each lighting cue.

*Lighting Plot- is a scale


mechanical drawing- or a
“road map” of the lighting
for a show
* Lighting Vocab

*Hanging- The process of placing lighting


instruments in their specified locations

*Instrument number- each instrument (light)


needs to be assigned an ID number. This
number is recorded for each lighting
instrument on the light board.
* Lighting Vocab
* Pipe- a fixed metal pipe that holds the lighting
instruments.

* First Electric- The onstage pipe for lighting


instruments that is closest to the proscenium arch.

* Electric- Any pipe that is used to hold lighting


instruments.

* Dimmer- an electrical device that controls the


intensity of a light source
* Lighting Vocab
* Gel- To put color filter into a
color frame and insert it in
the color-frame holder of a
lighting instrument.

* Gobo- A thin metal template


inserted into an ellipsoidal
reflector spotlight to project a
shadow pattern of light.
* Lighting Instruments
* Ellipsoidal reflector
spotlight (ERS)
* Has a narrow
beamwidth and is
capable of traveling
long distances.
* Also know by the
name “Leko”
* Primary lighting tool
of the designer.
* Lighting Instruments
*Source 4- is a form
of ERS lighting, has a
long light range
* Lighting Instruments
* Fresnel spotlight- produces a soft,
diffused light. Can produce a smooth
wash of light
* Lighting Instruments
* Parabolic aluminized
reflector PAR Can
* Is similar to a headlight
* Produces a powerful
intense oval punch of
light, yet has a soft edge
* Used a lot in dance and
concert lighting. It is low
cost and high durability
*Follow Spotlight- Used when
high-intensity, hard-edged beam
of light is required to follow a
moving performer.

*Shutter- A lever-actuated device


used to control the height of the
top and bottom edges of the
beam
*Cyc

* Short for “cyclorama”

* Basically a big white sheet

* Shine LEDs on it for color effect on


the background of a show
* Lighting Design
renderings

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