Production Element-Lighting

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  • Lighting
    • Color
      • Different colours represent ideas
        • Red=danger White=innocence
    • 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
    • Controllable Properties
      • Intensity
        • The  brightness of the light       (in %)
      • Distribution
        • Not the only light is distributed around the stage
          • Direction of the light
      • Movement
        • A physical movement of a beam of light
          • Change in intensity, color or distribution
    • 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
      • Focus
        • Directing the audience's attention
          • To an area of the stage or distracting them from another
      • Mood
        • Setting the tone of the scene
          • Harsh red lighting has a totally different effect that soft soft lavender light
      • Locations and time of the day
        • Establishing or altering position in the time or space
          • Dark blue portrays daytime
            • Orange portrays sunrise or sunset
      • 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
      • 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
    • 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
      • 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.
      • 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
    • 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

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