Lighting Design

Deciding what a show looks like, before anything is hung

A lighting designer decides what a show looks like. Not what fixtures hang where, that comes later, and it comes out of the decision rather than instead of it. The job is to look at a piece of work and say what the audience should see, feel and look at, and then to make a room full of equipment do that.

Inside: This Book Does Not Make You a Lighting Designer - What Lighting Design Is - The Qualities of Light - Colour - Fixtures, and Choosing Them on Paper - Acting Areas and Wash Systems - Developing the Concept - The Plot and the Section - The Paperwork That Travels With the Plot - The Shop Order, Cuts and Changes - Focus - Cues and Looks - Busking, Festivals and the Live Show - What Different Shows Need - Running, Archiving and Getting Better.