The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit
eBook - ePub

The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit

About this book

This ground-breaking text returns in its second edition, unlocking the insider secrets and proven, time-tested methods to succeed as a professional assistant lighting designer.

This definitive guide outlines, step-by-step, the daily challenges that assistant lighting designers face during every phase of production, and the solutions for overcoming them. Furthermore, intermingled among the highly detailed paperwork techniques and essential procedures, top industry professionals reveal tips for success in this challenging career. This fully updated second edition features:

  • All new advice, real-world stories, and current paperwork examples from over 120 working professionals.
  • Updated industry practices with case studies from the professionals themselves, such as how to create a video network to record previews for the lighting department; how much printing is done in an increasingly paperless world; how to produce a set electrics package; and how the industry interfaces with cutting-edge technology like remote followspots and pre-visualization software.
  • New lifestyle tips for traveling abroad, negotiating contracts, and dealing with stressful situations.

The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit, the most trusted authority on assisting in the lighting world, equips budding assistant lighting designers and students studying lighting design with the insider knowledge they need to achieve the successful career that they have always wanted—whether choosing assisting as a career or as a stepping-stone toward design. Within these pages are the industry secrets rarely taught in school!

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Yes, you can access The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit by Anne E. McMills in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Médias et arts de la scène & Théâtre. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780367423728
eBook ISBN
9781000433296

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. About the Author
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Acknowledgments from the First Edition
  11. Foreword by Ken Billington
  12. Introduction
  13. Common Abbreviations
  14. Part I The Profession
  15. Part II The Process
  16. Part III The Paperwork
  17. Part IV The Industry
  18. Part V The Life
  19. Conclusion
  20. Appendices
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index