Production Element-Lighting
- Created by: robertocmoon
- Created on: 15-09-20 10:56
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- Lighting
- Color
- Different colours represent ideas
- Red=danger White=innocence
- Different colours represent ideas
- Blackout
- Complete darkness for transitions
- Timing
- If music or sound is being used
- Know the lighting changes to support
- Enhances it for more desire effect
- Know the lighting changes to support
- If music or sound is being used
- Controllable Properties
- Intensity
- The brightness of the light (in %)
- Distribution
- Not the only light is distributed around the stage
- Direction of the light
- Not the only light is distributed around the stage
- Movement
- A physical movement of a beam of light
- Change in intensity, color or distribution
- A physical movement of a beam of light
- Intensity
- Lighting Design
- Illumination/ Visibility
- To see what is occurring on stage
- Keeps the light on or off the parts of the stage that should or should not be seen
- To see what is occurring on stage
- Focus
- Directing the audience's attention
- To an area of the stage or distracting them from another
- Directing the audience's attention
- Mood
- Setting the tone of the scene
- Harsh red lighting has a totally different effect that soft soft lavender light
- Setting the tone of the scene
- Locations and time of the day
- Establishing or altering position in the time or space
- Dark blue portrays daytime
- Orange portrays sunrise or sunset
- Dark blue portrays daytime
- Establishing or altering position in the time or space
- Motivation
- Lighting designer's job is to make the lighting look natural for the scene
- In the productions the light must be appropriate to the play's context
- Lighting designer's job is to make the lighting look natural for the scene
- Composition
- Lighting may be used to show only the areas of the stage which the designers want to see
- Projection/ Stage Elements
- Lighting may be used to project scenery or to act as scenery
- Illumination/ Visibility
- Type of light
- Floods
- Provide large area washes of light, equipped with a gel frame and are useful for lighting backcloths
- The beam can't be shaped, other lantern types are more flexible
- They produce a clearers white-angled light. Coloured gels can be used with this lamp
- The beam can't be shaped, other lantern types are more flexible
- Provide large area washes of light, equipped with a gel frame and are useful for lighting backcloths
- Frensel
- Soft-edged beam with large size variation. Creates large flashes of light, with highly coloured, but as beam size and the shape can be altered
- They have barn doors which shapes the beams, but don't sharpen it like the shutters on the profile. Gels can be used.
- Soft-edged beam with large size variation. Creates large flashes of light, with highly coloured, but as beam size and the shape can be altered
- Profile Spots
- Sharply defined image in outline of any object
- They have 4 shutters which can be pushed into a beam of light, shaping the appearance on stage
- Sharply defined image in outline of any object
- Floods
- Coloured Gels
- Transparent coloured materials that is used to change the colour of the beam
- Gobos
- Sheets inserted on a frame with a design cut on it. So, it would project an image
- Strobe
- Flashing lights made for special effects
- Color
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