Course Description
Intermediate-level projects in lighting design for the performing arts, emphasizing multi-character, multi-setting, and highly complex methods and technologies.
Athena Title
Graduate Lighting Design II
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The primary objective of this course is to reinforce basic lighting design and technology while developing solid practices, techniques, and documentation of the design process. Studio/lab sessions will emphasize the practical applications of “seeing” and designing with light while class discussions, exercises, and demonstrations will emphasize the use of light as a production element. Specific objectives are listed below: 1. Refine skills relating to the description and manipulation of the physical properties of light. 2. Become proficient in plotting/documenting a lighting design through the initial load-in. 3. Experiment in manipulation/control of the qualities of light. 4. Refine skills related to paperwork and drafting lighting designs. 5. Develop a process for analyzing a scene and creating a lighting response for various situations. 6. Modify design approaches based on various staging venues. 7. Introduce students to related areas of lighting design (dance, opera, concert, video, etc.). 8. To observe/communicate, through lighting terminology, the contributions/problems created by the lighting designs of department productions through written and oral critiques. 9. Introduce the students to several software packages that are in common use for executing and visualizing lighting design.
Topical Outline
I. Introduction to Lighting Design A. Review of Lighting Tech/Design Elements II. Lighting Instruments and the Proscenium Theatre A. Control Protocol and DMX III. Design Software A. Beamwright B. Studio: Initial Setup C. Lightwright D. CADD, WYSIWYG and off-line editing E. Virtual Light Lab IV. Design Process and Consideration A. The Design in Performance B. Design in Performance--Alternate Spaces V. Light Plot Review A. Sections and Layout of Lighting Systems B. Review of Design Paperwork (Instrument Schedules and Hook- ups) C. Project 6 Workday; Studio: Movement in Light VI. Project 1 Presentation A. Project 2 Workday B. Project 2 Presentation C. Design Project 1 Workday D. Design Project 1 Workday E. Project 3 Workday; Studio: Create a Scene F. Project 3 Presentation G. Studio: Masters' Scene H. Project 4 Presentation I. Project 5 Workday; Studio: Re-gel a Scene; Design Project 1 Due J. Project 5 Presentation K. Exercise: Color Relativity L. Project 6 Presentation M. Design Project 2 Workday N. Final Project Due VII. Dance and Musical Theatre Lighting Design; Exercise: Improvisation Imaging in Light VIII. Repertory Plots and Lighting
Syllabus
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