Types of Instruments
Color Theory
Goals of Lighting Design
Vocabulary
Lighting Positions
100
A type of fixture that must have an operator.
What is a followspot?
100
Name the three primary colors in lighting.
What is Red, Green, and Blue?
100
The most basic objective for stage lighting.
What is Illuminate the Stage?
100
A wide swath of lighting that provides consistent coverage across a stage.
What is a wash?
100
The primary source of lighting for a performance. Fixtures that point forward towards a performers face is an important starting point
What is Front Lighting?
200
Similar to barndoors, but are built into ellipsoidal lighting fixtures. By moving these, you can manipulate the shape of the beam
What is Shutters?
200
Name the three secondary colors in lighting?
What is Cyan, Amber, and Magenta?
200
Help direct the audience's attention where they should go.
What is Highlight Different Areas?
200
The process of dispersing light to soften it
What is diffusion?
200
Positioned towards the back of the stage, behind the performer
What is Back Lighting?
300
an ERS fixture that produces an intense, well-defined beam of light.
What is an Ellipsoida?
300
The color you make when you combine red and blue.
What is Magenta?
300
This goal helps create optical illusions to create real instances, I.E a sun rising.
What is Set the Scene?
300
The object in the lighting house that create the actual illumination.
What is a lamp?
300
Another way to add dimension to an object, lights the top of actor's head
What is downlighting?
400
This parabolic aluminized reflector is a staple in lighting design. Can be commonly seen as a incandescent or LED fixture.
What is a PARCan?
400
In theory, you get this color when you combine RGB.
What is White?
400
The idea is to match the lighting to the content of the show and to encourage the right emotions ion the audience.
What is Control the Mood?
400
Is a thin metal disc with a pattern cut out, like a stencil.
What is a Gobo?
400
Used to illuminate the sides of objects, used heavily in dance productions.
What is Side and High Side Lighting?
500
Named for it's inventor, these lights are unique with their lens being made on concentric rings.
What is a Fresnel?
500
Due to this, color is extremely important to lighting designers.
What is people's preconceived notions about emotions and colors
500
What Ms. Horn calls Lighting Designers.
What is Master Manipulators ?
500
A large cloth backdrop used on a stage. You can use lighting equipment to project light or images onto the cyclorama.
What is a Cyclorama?
500
What is the standard lighting technique we use?
The Three Point Lighting System?