Lighting Design notes

Lighting design
18th April 2018
Why is lighting important-:
- Lighting may be used to highlight or symbolize different objects . Spotlights are effective when symbolizing a particular object. It tells the audience where to focus on the stage. 
- The designer gets to create moods or atmospheres based on the color of the lights. For example, blue could symbolize the setting as an ocean or it could symbolize a hospital. 
- It has a lot of effect on shadows, which creates suspense and tension. 
- It can also determine the time of day and geographical location as well as the location. 

 Illumination: The simple ability to see what is occurring on the stage. Any lighting design will be ineffective if the audience has to strain to see the characters. 
Focus: directing the audience's attention to an area of the stage or distracting them from another. 

 Mood: Setting the tone of the scene. A harsh red light has a different effect than a soft lavender light. 
Location and time of day: Establishing position in time and space. Blues can suggest nighttime while orange can suggests a sunrise or sunset. Use of gobos to project a sky or the moon. The below projection suggests outer space. 

 Production/ stage elements : Lighting may be used to project scenery or to act as scenery onstage. 

 Composition : Lighting may be used to show only the areas of the stage which designer wants the audience to see.
Lighting state: The overall effect you have created. 
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The job of lighting designer-:
The lighting designer must also know the play very well. They work closely with the set designer and director, to understand each scene and where the focus of the action onstage should be. Often the realisation of the set designer's artistic vision depends greatly upon the way their set is lit. 


Types of lighting-:
- Flood lighting
- Spotlight: Sharply defined
- Fresnel: directive lighting
- Colored gells or filters
- Gobos

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