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October 15, 2012

October 15, 2012. Warm Up: Why are front lights important in a lighting design? Does that make them more important that fill lights? Objective: Students will complete their sample lighting design and instrument schedule. Review. Can you use the magic number to create acting areas on stage?

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October 15, 2012

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  1. October 15, 2012 Warm Up: Why are front lights important in a lighting design? Does that make them more important that fill lights? Objective: Students will complete their sample lighting design and instrument schedule.

  2. Review • Can you use the magic number to create acting areas on stage? • Can you place your front lights onstage for each acting area? • Do you know the primary difference between a front light (ERS/spotlight) versus a fill light (PAR or Fresnel)?

  3. To spot or to fill? • Spotlights identify specific areas of the stage. • Fill lights light up general areas of the stage. • Spotlights must fit (or go slightly larger) than an acting area. • Fill lights can go as big as you want. • What is the trade off in terms of intensity of the light?

  4. Placing Fill Lights • 1. Determine where you want the light to shine and what it’s going to do. • Color Wash – spreading color of the stage • Side Light – more directly to the side, specifically in dance • Mood/Accent lighting – back lighting/cool shadows effects • 2. Put it there and note what kind of light it is: Fresnel (Fres) or PAR

  5. Color Theory – as simply as I can • Lighting color is different from paint color. • Paint color is a reflection of light from a colored surface (you only see the light it is reflecting). Do you know how your eye works? • Lighting Color is the light allowed through the gel and that shines on stage. • Vote: Do you want more understanding of how stage light coloring works?

  6. Applying Colors to stage lights • Choose your colors from a color book (sorry, Barbizon had ONE extra…so we’re going to have to share or something). • You should have a warm and a cool color for your front lights that are fairly unsaturated (>75% transmission). This allows us to actually see what’s happening. • Colors with <25% transmission are difficult to discern as front lights

  7. Applying Color • Choose your side/fill/special colors. • Write down the names and numbers somewhere for your instrument schedule. • Each color goes with the rest of your information on your plot (board example)

  8. Numbering Lights • Conventions: Keep colors in families. Examples: Warm Front lights 1-6, Cool Front lights 7-12, Green Wash 20-25, Yellow Wash 30-35, ect… • We name lights for each of programming light board and setting up control channels and cues.

  9. Instrument Schedule • A chart that shows all of the collected information that is used by the master electrician when determining all lights hung properly.

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