A practical guide to stage lighting
By: Steven Louis Shelley.
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Stage lighting
Description: A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting is a nuts-and-bolts look at the construction and implementation of theatrical lighting design. Combining theory and application, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of lighting systems along with step-by-step examples and illustrations of the technical tools and methods used for lighting design. Readers will benefit from experience-based tips, techniques, and traps to avoid in the preparation and execution of a lighting design.

Real life examples explain why some techniques succeed while others fail.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271) and index.
Table of contents: title: A review. Theatrical space -- The hanging positions and focus -- Electricity and distribution -- Control -- Lighting instruments -- Color -- The light plot -- The staff of a production -- Production schedule / / Summary -- Define the parameters. Define the contract -- Define by the budget -- Define by type and size of production -- Define by origin -- Define by movement -- Define by mode of transport -- Define the performance facility -- Define the production schedule -- Define the communication -- Define the production : Hokey -- Paperwork overview. The Paperwork packets -- Light plot, section, and support paperwork packet. The light plot -- The lighting section -- The support paperwork -- Summary -- The load-in and focus packet. The hang plot -- The headset layout diagram -- Computer light board information -- Focus information -- Summary -- The cue construction packet. The magic sheet -- The cue master -- Forms -- Summary -- Prior to load-in. The production schedule -- Initial paperwork and tools -- The night before loan-in -- Summary -- Load-in and setup. Before the work begins -- The load-in begins -- Hanging the light plot -- Programming information into computer lighting console -- Checking production table -- Followspots -- Hot test the position -- Set the trims -- First channel check -- Summary -- The focus session. Overview -- Focus analysis -- Focusing techniques and notes -- Focus tips -- Focus checklists -- Focusing the Hokey light plot -- Summary -- The light cue level setting session and technical rehearsals. Light cue level setting session analysis -- The cueing session begins -- After the cueing session -- Followspots -- The technical rehearsal analysis -- Summary -- The performance -- Before the performance -- The performance -- After the show -- Summary -- Glossary.