Lighting Basics
This is the lighting designer’s most important job.
What is making sure the audience can clearly see the actors and set?
This controls all stage lighting from the back of the audience.
What is the light board?
This manually operated spotlight follows actors on stage.
What is a follow spot?
LEDs are more efficient in this way.
What is energy efficiency (or they use less energy)?
These control the size/shape of a beam externally, most commonly found on fresnels.
Barn Doors
Lighting helps create ___________ and ___________ establishing the emotional feel of the scene.
Mood and tone
These metal pipes hold lights above the stage.
Battens/electrics
This light can move and change direction during a show with instructions from the lightboard (not a human physically controlling it).
What is a moving head?
One advantage: you can change this without climbing a ladder or bringing down the electric (from the lightboard).
What is color (or intensity/size)?
Name this light fixture.
#1
ERS/Leko
Lighting helps guide the audience’s ______________.
Attention/focus
A white backdrop that lighting designers “paint” with light.
What is a cyclorama (cyc)?
This light produces a soft-edged, wide beam.
What is a fresnel?
A major disadvantage of LEDs is this.
What is high costs? (Expensive to convert entire theaters)
Name this light fixture.
#2
PAR cans
Lighting supports this person’s overall vision of the production.
Who is the director?
These are placed in front of a light to create different colors.
What are gels?
These lights are used to create large washes of light.
What are PAR cans?
Before LEDs, lighting primarily used this type of bulb (and still does in non-LED fixtures).
What is incandescent lighting?
What is a Parabolic Reflector?
Lighting tools help control these four things.
What are light amount, color, pattern, and effects?
These are metal disks with a pattern cut out such as stars or a cityscape.
What are gobos?
This light creates a narrow, intense beam with sharp edges.
What is an ERS (Leko)?
LED stands for this.
What is Light Emitting Diode?
ERS stands for this.
What is Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight?