Lighting
Lighting design
Lighting is not set design!
Lighting is important cause people need to see characters.
Different colors indicate different atmospheres or time of day.
- Illumination: The simple ability to see what is occurring on stage. Any lighting will be ineffective if the characters aren’t seen, unless this is the intent.
- Focus: Directing the audience’s attention to an area of stage or distracting them from another.
- Mood: Setting the tone of the scene. Harsh red light has a different connotation than a soft lavender light.
- Backlit: creates a shadow over the characters, sinister looking.
- Location and time of day: establishing or altering position in time and space. Blues can suggest night time, whilst orange can show sunsets. Use of hobos to project sky scene, moon.
- Projection: lighting may be used to project scenery or to act as scenery on stage.
- Composition: lighting may be used to show only the areas of the stage which the designer wants the audience to see, and to “paint the picture”
- Lighting state: the overall lighting effect you have created
Job of a lighting designer: the lighting designer must know the play very well. They work very closely with the director to understand what they want to communicate in each scene an where the focus of the action onstage should be . They also work very closely with the set designer as they both play a large part of the visual production.
The lighting designer designs the lighting cues. That means they decide when to move from one lighting state to another. A sudden change in lighting is called a lightning snap.
A naturalistic production would not use a symbolic lighting.
Non naturalistic might use lighting in an abstract manner.
Different types of lights:
- Flood light; washes out/white
- Fresnel; directing lighting/ used for colors and patterns
- Profile spot; spotlight/ defined light
- Gobos; insert a sheet on the frame and gives different designs
This is a detailed record of the content we covered in class, and you have most of the essential points covered here. You should think about including images because they can be very helpful as a visual reminder of what we learned. Good work.
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