The aim of the next 2 lessons is to:
- Understand the principles of lighting design
- Know what lights create what effects
- Build subject specific vocabulary
- Give opportunities to be creative / experiment using a light simulator
Task 1a: In Pairs, discuss for 5 mins ‘why lights are needed in theatre?‘ (Shakespeare didn’t use them!)
- Functional lighting
- Emotive lighting (effects designed to cause/reflect an emotion)
Task 1b: Define what each term means and provide an example from the play. (Look at the 1st 2 photos if you need help).
- A cyclorama light
- Side lights
- Top lighting
- Foot lights
- Specials
- High Side Gobos
Task 2: (20 minutes) Finding out what lights do (basic)
Create a Word Doc and print off by the end of the lesson.
*Take screen shots of each TYPE OF LIGHT to help YOU remember the effects created.
Log in to the website BELOW.
WEBSITE for lighting simulator
https://scenicandlighting.com/lightlab/
Set every light to zero (slide to the left).
Using 1 slider / light at a time, see what effects are created by using:
- A cyclorama light
- Side lights
- Top lighting
- Foot lights
- Specials
- GoBo’s (short for ‘go between’
Task 3: (20 minutes) Create a ‘lighting state’ for 2 chosen scenes in the play (using this website.)
CHOOSE A NON-NATURALISTIC SCENE /MOMENT AND A MORE NATURALISTIC SCENE / MOMENT.
In your Journal, you need to be able to:
- State the scene – location – time of day.
- Explain where lights are positioned, angled, focused and any colour choices, special effects (gobos?)
- Justify why you used these (in terms of the effects you wish to create eg: time / place / mood.)
DISCUSS:
In 1910 what are the light sources available in an apartment rented by a ‘lower middle class family’ like the Samas. [THINK natural and artificial]
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