To create or contrive for a particular purpose or effect. To create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner. During this course we shall endeavor to make the distinction between the process of designing lighting for a production and the execution of the completed design. Designing the lighting for a production of a play, an opera, or a piece of dance is an intellectual process involving analysis and perceptions that lead naturally to conceptual thinking. Lighting is one of the physical elements of a given production that supports the work of the director or choreographer and the performers.
Lighting is more than being able to see that which is on the stage.
It is an integral part of the totality that is the final product in the theatrical experience. It is my belief that to be a good lighting designer one must necessarily be a very good electrician. The lighting designer must be completely familiar with the units that produce the light and the devices with which we control light. The electrician on the other hand, has a totally different function in the production. The designer and electrician should be in constant communication during the planning stages of a production.