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Stage Lighting has many purposes. Some of which include: Illumination: Ability to see what is occurring onstage. Revelation of Form: Altering the perception of shapes onstage Focus: Directing the audience's attention to an area of the stage or distracting them from another.
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Stage Lighting has many purposes. Some of which include: • Illumination: Ability to see what is occurring onstage. • Revelation of Form: Altering the perception of shapes onstage • Focus: Directing the audience's attention to an area of the stage or distracting them from another. • Mood: Setting the tone of a scene. • Location and Time of Day:Establishing time and space. • Projection/Stage Elements:Projecting scenery or acting as scenery on stage. • Plot: A lighting event may trigger or advance the action onstage. Technical Theater: Stage Lighting InstrumentsSydney Little
Types of Lights • Lighting instruments are categorized into “flood lights” or “spot lights” • Flood lights illuminate a large area of space • Spot lights are narrow beams of light which illuminate a more specific spot
Flood Lights Different kinds of flood lights include: • Parabolic Aluminized Reflector lights (PAR lights): very common because of their low cost, light weight, easy maintenance, high durability, and high output. Also used for top, back, and side stage lighting. Similar to car headlights. • Strip lights, aka cyclorama or cyc lights (named because they are effective for lighting the cyclorama, a curtain at the back of the stage.) Used to light back drop. Typically used with colored gels. • Scoop lights: no lenses, used to flood the stage with light from above, often used as worklights • LED lights: uses halogen lamps or high- intensity discharge lamps. Can created almost any color
Parabolic Strip Scoop LED
Spot Lights Different kinds of spot lights include: • Fresnel lantern: The look of the light is wide and soft-edged. It is commonly used to create dark shadows, back light, top light, and side light. • Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight: creates silhouette • Beam projector: lens less instrument with little beam spread. 2 reflectors. The primary reflector is parabolic and the secondary reflector is spherical • Moving lights: use arc lamps as a light source, Some have standard halogen lamp, stepper motors connected to various devices
Fresnel lantern Ellipsoidal reflector Moving Lights Beam projector