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Lighting Design: Techniques, Control, and Functions

This chapter provides an introduction to lighting design, exploring how lighting designers use light to selectively illuminate the stage, sculpt actors and scenery, and create atmosphere and mood. It also discusses the controllable qualities of light, such as distribution, direction, shape and size, quality, intensity, movement, and color. The functions of stage lighting, including visibility, selective focus, modeling, and mood enhancement, are also examined. Examples from productions like "The Glass Menagerie," "Murder in a Cathedral," "Side Man," "Wait Until Dark," and "A Christmas Carol" are discussed.

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Lighting Design: Techniques, Control, and Functions

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  1. Chapter 1 An Introduction to Lighting Design Notes from Gillette’s Designing with Light

  2. How Does the LD use Light? • Selectively illuminate the stage • Sculpt and model actors, scenery and costumes • Create atmosphere and mood in support of the story and concept

  3. The Controllable Qualities of Light • Distribution • Direction • Shape and Size • Quality or Cohesiveness i.e. Diffusion • Character or Texture • Smooth, uneven, patterned, hard or soft edged.

  4. The Controllable Qualities of Light • Intensity or brightness The Glass Menagerie, Rockhurst University

  5. The Controllable Qualities of Light • Movement • The timed duration of a Light Cue • The movement of onstage lights • i.e. lantern or candle being carried across the stage • The movement of offstage lights • Followspot

  6. The Controllable Qualities of Light • Color

  7. The Functions of Stage Lighting • Visibility Murder in a Cathedral Pencil Rendering Jeff McLaughlin

  8. The Functions of Stage Lighting • Selective Focus Side Man, ASU-Jonesboro

  9. The Functions of Stage Lighting • Modeling Wait Until Dark, ASU-Jonesboro

  10. The Functions of Stage Lighting • Mood A Christmas Carol, New Stage Theatre

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