LIGHTING DESIGN

Lights that can focus / Lights that can’t focus

FOCUSABLE LIGHT

Fresnel Lights Leko/ERS

- Convex lens w/ concentric circles
- Greater magnification
- Sliding lamp on the bottom allows for
a spot (left) or floodlight (right)
- Much more versatile lighting
- Light goes through 2 lenses
- Thin metal handles in front of
the light affect shutter, change
shape of light
- ERS: Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight

COLOR IN LIGHT

Gels
- Small colored circle you put in front of light to change color

SPOTLIGHT

Follow-Spot
- On a pivot; can move and track actor
- Designed w/ an extra long throw
- Douser used to block the light when unneeded
- Iris changes the diameter of opening
NON-FOCUSABLE LIGHTS

Par Can / Par Light Strip Light

- Old school light, essentially a lamp in - Designed to light scenery
a can - Specifically drops
- In Chicago on broadway, these are - Achieving a large field of light where
around the stage color can be mixed

ACCESSORIES

Barn Snoot/ Color

Door Top Frame
Hat

Gobo Donut
- Lil stencil that - Makes image crisper by removing
shapes the light glare
MOVING LIGHT

- Loud, but very cool and fancy because they move around and change
color

LIGHT PLOT
- All the info on the lights and where they will go
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Lighting Position Chart (see pg below)
Lighting Position Chart (see pg above)
Front of House Lights
Stage Lights

1. Cove / Catwalk
- Lights at a 45 degree angle at stage

2. Box Boom
- Originally, lights put in box seats on the side
- Boom: vertical stick for lights

3. Balcony Rail
- Not great for lighting people as it’s dead on

4. Foot lights
- Lights from the edge of stage pointing at actors

5. Electric
- 5,7,9 pretty much the same
- Any light you hang on a pipe becomes an electric

6. Boom
- 6,8 Variations of the same thing

7. Electric
- 5,7,9 pretty much the same
- Any light you hang on a pipe becomes an electric

8. Ladder/Boom
- 6,8 Variations of the same thing
- Boom that hangs from the grid rather than standing on the floor

9. Cyc Light (also an electric)

- Lights are pointing upstage not downstage
- 5,7,9 pretty much the same
- Any light you hang on a pipe becomes an electric

10. Ground Row

- Series of lights on the floor usually used to light the bottom of the cyc

11. Follow Spot position

- Gets its own little space behind the auditorium