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The ABCs Of Lighting Design

Because the variety of lighting styles and accessories that you have to choose from is do large, you might need some help. If you find that you just cannot make up your mind, go with the best quality, as you can never go wrong with that. Also knowing more about lighting design will help guide you along the way as well.

Lighting Design is the primary role of a lighting designer. Lighting designers work with set designers, theater directors and costume designers to put together an overall look and feel for a show, with special focus placed on issues of light and visibility.

In especially large theatrical shows, the light designer will typically work closely with the stage manager on show control programming. In very small or amateur productions, the light designer is usually responsible for many of the hands on and set up tasks that are reserved for light crew workers on large projects.

In these amateur productions, a light designer may be responsible for hanging and testing lights, as well as programming light boards and other manual tasks related to lighting.

Lighting designers will nearly always read entire scripts in order to make proper and well informed notes on the various changes in time and place that happen from scene to scene.

Lighting designers usually have regular meetings with the director or directors of a production, as well as the production manager. Oftentimes there will be separate meetings with these individuals, as well as larger meetings with both the production manager and the director simultaneously.

During these meetings, the pre-production phase is used to discuss ideas for the content and to establish scheduling and budget parameters and details. During this process, the lighting designer will attend any rehearsals so that he or she can observe the way the actors are being directed and are using the stage.

A lighting designer will have on hand an up to date plan of a theater's lighting positions and a list of the equipment that is available to the production company....

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