lighting design

the client brief for the lighting design was to light the drama studio in a proffesional way for an open evening
from this I came up with concept ideas for the drama studio and how i could creatively light the space with the college lighting stock and so we came up with the idea of a woodland theme

here is the final lighting plan for the drama studio with a general cover to fill the space with light made up of fresnels and a profile with an iris and a leaf gobo to incorporate the feel of a forest into it with parcans down the sides of the room to uplight it.

lighting stock used
fresnels:10
parcans:8
profiles:1

colour call
13:1
15:2
89:2
90:3
122:2
for the colours i used a ranges of yellows and greens to create a tonal forest feel


focus notes

1      fresnel no barn doors 15 deep straw 135 degrees
2      nil
3      profile iris leaf gobo 90 degrees
4      fresnel no barn doors 15 deep straw 45 degrees
5     fresnel no barn doors 90 dark green yellow 135 degrees
6     fresnel no barn doors 13 straw tint 180 degrees
7     nil
8     fresnel no barn doors 90 dark green yellow 45 degrees
9     fresnel no barn doors 122 fern green 135 degrees
10   nil
11   fresnel no barn doors 90 dark yellow green 180 degrees
12  fresnel no barn doors 122 fern green 45 degrees
13 fresnel no barn doors 89 moss green 135 degrees
14 nil
15 nil
16 fresnel no barn doors 89 moss green 45 degrees


final product

 

lighting genres

chicago lighting design 2

the mistake I made with this stage is the fact I got confused with the general cover as the centre of the stage is round I made the mistake of lighting that part from 4 points as I would theatre in round not traverse like its supposed to be...apparently it would need to be lit from 3 points in the centre ..lesson learnt.

chicago lighting design three

one this third attempt I managed to get the generally cover correct yet again I forgot to put aisles in which is important in the design concept I used this as my final paper design

chicago lighting plan attempt one

what is wrong with this plan I hear you ask, despite the presentation , I managed to mess up in creating a general cover due to the unusual shape of the stage I chose to use I also made the mistake of lighting the audience as I would a performer in the this design I put too many lights over then when I already had profiles pointing through the audience which would light the aisles (which I forgot to draw on incidentally) which would have been enough.

thrust

is a combination of traverse and theatre in the round half is lit from three points some from 4 points.

traverse

the staging is still lit by triangulation ie one backlight two front lights..but the difference with traverse to say end on theatre is in traverse each light within the triangle is set at a 120 degree angle to the next ..again the three points eliminate any shadows and when starting to plot a traverse piece 0 degrees is the backlight. The set is split in half  backlit from one end half from the other.