Course Description
Advanced design assignments and study in lighting design. An examination of lighting design for a selection of specialized applications within the performing arts. Design problems drawn from specialized areas like musicals, operas, dance, concerts, industrials, virtual, and themed design projects. Refinement of design skills in drafting, visualization, and conceptualization.
Athena Title
Graduate Lighting Design III
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To provide advanced lighting studies in a variety of specialized applications that introduce the students to design problems, consideration, and solutions in specialty areas outside of traditional drama. Also of importance is the continued refinement of designer skills in manipulating and describing light while also communicating effectively to directors and other production personnel, drafting, light rendering/storyboarding, and more elaborate cuing decisions/applications. Non-traditional methods of displaying design visualizations will also be introduced in this course.
Topical Outline
1. Advanced Conceptualization and Script Analysis for Lighting Advanced Storyboarding and Graphic Representations of Light 2. Advanced Control in Lighting (DMX, ShowControl, Protocol, and Addressing) 3. Fundamentals of Automated Lighting 4. Lighting Design for Musical Theatre and Musical Reviews 4. Lighting Design for Ballet, Modern Dance 5. Pre-visualization in Lighting Design –LD Assistant, Martin Show Control, etc. 6. Lighting Design for Opera and Lyric Opera 7. Lighting Design for Concert and Spectacle Events 8. Lighting Corporate Productions and Industrials 9. Television and Film Lighting Fundamentals 10. Practical Exercises Stressing the Control and Observation of Light 11. Essential Themed Design Issues for a Lighting Designer (Parks, Restaurants, Stores and other Properties)
Syllabus
Public CV