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.
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