
Performance Lighting Design
How to Light for the Stage, Concerts and Live Events
- 288 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A practical guide to the art and technique of lighting for the stage, this book explains the complex mixture of craft, collaboration and creativity behind successful lighting design. The designer paints with light - revealing form and composing a living picture from collections of objects and bodies in a given space. This handbook for professional practice walks you through how to achieve this, from first concept to development of design ideas, planning to realisation and, finally, public performance. Now fully revised, this second edition of Nick Moran's Performance Lighting Design has been brought up to date to consider advances made in the technology used for lighting design for live performance. Alongside this, Moran introduces new concepts and ways of working; includes a section on analysing the finished design; and discusses recent research into contemporary lighting practice, addressing emerging trends, particularly for drama. Combining practical information with aesthetic considerations, Performance Lighting Design is the ideal book for students and practitioners of stage lighting working on the contemporary stage.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of credits for illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 An introduction to light in performance
- 2 An introduction to the tools of lighting
- 3 Describing performance lighting
- 4 From text to lighting concept
- 5 Evolving the concept, developing a cue structure
- 6 From concept to lighting plan
- 7 Plans, paper work and patching
- 8 Working in the performance space, part I
- 9 Working in the performance space, part II
- 10 Finishing touches
- 11 Beyond opening night
- 12 Looking ahead
- Index