Act
1: ‘Need a Technician. . .’ (43 pages)
Teaching notes, background information & illustrations
§ Overture and Beginners
1. Need
a technician? Using the programme of study
§ Lanterns, Dimmers & Control
2. Identifying Lanterns: lenses and
reflectors, five ‘Family’ Groups of lanterns,
3. Good
working practice: preparing and rigging lanterns
4. Looking
at: dimmer packs, cable plugs & sockets, 2 preset lighting control desks
§ Understanding & Using Lanterns
5. Fixed
and Adjustable beam lanterns: how they work, what can be adjusted
6. Angling & Focusing: Fresnels/PCs,
Profiles, saving your lamps
7. Five
types of Lanterns: five different beams of light, which lantern to use and
where?
8. Lantern
Accessories: barndoors, shutters, irises, gobos
& colour frames
§ Good Working Practice
9. Striking
Lanterns & Accessories: quick check list, organising & storage
10. Lantern
Maintenance: trouble shooting, replacing lamps, cleaning & electrical
testing
11. Health
& Safety: risk assessment, working at heights & access equipment
§ From Lantern to Control
12. Understanding
and managing the lighting system: lighting layout plans, a glossary of terms
§ Encore! – Resources
Lantern:
Labels, Reference, Information & Record sheets
Hanging
Bolt Assembly drawing, Rigging plans, Angling & Focusing floor sheets
Quick
Guide to Lanterns – Makes & Models, lamps, colour frames and Gobos
Storage
Labels for Accessories
Electricity
at Work Regulations & Testing, User checks for Electrical Equipment
Examples
of sketch survey and lighting layout plans
§ Encore! – Posters
‘Looking
at Lanterns’: Lenses & Lantern Symbols, Acclaim & Quartet Lanterns
‘Five
Types of Lanterns’: How do they work?
Act 2: ‘Taking the Drama out of Lighting!’ (27
pages)
Teaching notes, background
information & illustrations
§ The Principles of lighting
1. The
Angles of Illumination: lighting the face and body
2.
Front, Side & Back Lighting: exercise demonstrating the positions
& effects
3.
Three Angles of Lighting: Front
key & fill, Side shin/floor, head, cross & Back
lighting
§ The Art of Colour
4. The Colour
Palette: warm, neutral & cool colours, Key, Fill & Accent lighting,
split colours
5.
Using Colour Filters: identifying, cutting & marking, establishing
a storage system
§ Special Effects
6. Using
Gobos: types of patterns, mounting, holders & sizes to match the lanterns
7.
Moving Effects: Gobo
Rotators, Animation discs, Effects projectors
8.
Gobo Slide Projection: Imagepro, ‘cool beam’
lanterns, making and using plastic slides, Peak & Flat field adjustment
on Profile spots
9.
Other Effects using: smoke, haze & fog, pyrotechnics, strobe &
UV lighting
§ A Lighting Exercise
10. Amps,
Volts & Watts: Ohms Law, calculating the power requirements
11. Lighting
a Scene: designing, making a plan, rigging, health & safety
12. Setting
& Plotting Lighting Levels: types of cues, plot sheets
§ Encore! – Resources
Lighting
Exercise equipment requirements, Safety Bonds, Chains & Floor Stands
Three
Angles of Lighting plan, Colour Filter Storage Sheets
Lighting
a Scene exercise: information sheets, plans, guide to setting & plotting
§
Encore! – Posters
§
Three
Angles of Lighting
Act 3: ‘So You’re Lighting the Production?’ (37
pages)
Teaching notes, background information &
illustrations
§ The Lighting Palette
1.
Lighting
Design: visibility, selection, fluidity, lighting naturalist drama, musicals
& dance
2.
Six Area Lighting Grid: creating a lighting
palette, rigging, angle & focusing
§ Lighting the Performance Space
3. Cross Area
Front Lighting: optimum angles of illumination, lighting the face not the
floor, choice & position of lanterns, F.O.H. horizontal & vertical
boom bars
4. Angling & Focusing Lanterns: thinking in
plan & elevation, angles & overshoot
5. Flat Frontal Lighting: frontal lighting
rig, lighting for dance
6. Side, Cross & Back Lighting:
shin/floor, head, cross & back lighting for drama & dance
7. Beam Angles: selecting lanterns
considering wattage and beam spread
§ Understanding the Lighting System
8. Dimmers & Power Supplies: looking at packs
& racks, mains distribution and loading
9. Lighting Control Desk: basic, advanced
& movement effects memory control desks
§ Lighting the Show
10. The
Language of Lighting: atmosphere, intensity, direction & colour
11. Preparation
& Planning: design, planning areas, rigging, angling & focusing
12. Plotting,
Rehearsing & Running the Show: composing the scene
§ Lighting as a Coursework Option
Looking
at Syllabus Requirements: detailed analysis of requirements and skills to be
tested ‘Quick Guide’ pathway through the programme of study, preparation of coursework
§ Encore! – Resources
Six
Areas Exercise Lighting Rig, Six Areas Lighting & Patch Plan, Three Area
Lighting Rig,
Six Area Frontal lighting Rig, Cross/Side Lighting
plan & elevation
Beam Angles, Examples of Lantern Layout Plans, Plot
& Patching Sheets
§ Encore! – Posters
Six
Areas Lighting Plan, ‘Which Lantern to Use and Where?’
Reprise Resources and Contacts
Useful resources as used on the DVD &
contacts
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