Free lighting workshops - Old Mill Theatre - March 18, 20 and 22
Wed, 6 Mar 2013, 08:15 pmmuswell5 posts in thread
Free lighting workshops - Old Mill Theatre - March 18, 20 and 22
Wed, 6 Mar 2013, 08:15 pmThe Old Mill Theatre is running FREE lighting workshops on March 18, 20 and 22 from 7pm to 10pm each night. They will be facilitated by Don Allen in association Noel O’Neill, director of No Bed of Roses, currently in rehearsal. Don is a well-known lighting professional and has run many similar workshops. To register your interest, email oldmilltheatre@iinet.net.au. There is a limit of 20 participants.
People can choose to come on a night that suits them, as you may only be interested in one aspect or cannot get to the other two nights.
After covering safety and basic stage lighting principles, the lighting design requirements for No Bed Of Roses will be discussed. A lighting plan will be created, along with associated paperwork such as a dimmer channel and patch sheet. Then the lights will be rigged, focused and plotted.
Some of the lighting will be preset for the continuity of the workshops because there is not time to start from scratch (as a guide to rigging, 30 minutes per light is needed to rig and focus. More than 30 lights will be used so there is not time to do it all).
The workshops include the following areas of stage lighting split over three nights with some overlap: stage safety, rigging safety, objectives of stage lighting, properties of light, electrical safety, basic lantern types, lighting angles, lighting desks (programming and use), power usage (watts), dimmer control, patching and cables, rigging a show, colours, special effects, basic stage lighting design, lighting plans, documentation, script analysis, square one rig, technical rehearsals and desk plotting, and focusing.
All participants will receive a set of notes on a CD-ROM (to save trees). Please wear enclosed shoes.
If you want to do some pre-reading, look at:
Stage Lighting Design 101 by Bill Williams http://www.mts.net/~william5/sld.htm.
Go to this site for data on Strand Lighting which is a lot of the old lighting still found in community theatres: http://www.strandarchive.co.uk/lanterns/index.html (the Old Mill has Coda4 cyc lights).
This is the Selecon site for their data sheets and details on the Acclaim Axial zoom profiles the Old Mill uses: http://www.seleconlight.com/
The ALIA Lighting Links page maintained by Andy Cidor is a good starting point because it provides links to all areas of theatre lighting: http://www.alia.com.au/links/index.html.
The LSC Maxim is an ideal lighting desk (the Old Mill has a maXimM desk): http://www.lsclighting.com/products/consoles/maxim-console.
Lighting Course Content
Thu, 7 Mar 2013, 01:54 pmTHEATRE STAGE LIGHTING COURSE content for Old Mill Theatre
Theatre lighting is a mixture of technical and artistic skill.
TECHNICAL SKILLS – Stage Lighting Mechanics - First Session - Don Allen
Stage safety.
Safety Guidelines For The Entertainment Industry http://www.liveperformance.com.au/site/_content/document/00000027-source.pdf
Safety Induction.
Regulations
Health Public Buildings Act http://www.public.health.wa.gov.au/cproot/1718/2/Public%20Buildings%20Guidelines%20Final.pdf
Working At Heights Code Of Practice http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/worksafe/PDF/Codes_of_Practice/code_falls.pdf
Rigging safety.
Lantern yoke, locks, safety wire, colour frame, accessories
Ladder safety
Platform ladders
Scaffold
Objectives of stage lighting.
Illumination or Selective Visibility
Dimension or Composition – keeping it 3D
Selectivity – revealing and hiding
Atmosphere or Mood – controlling the audiences perception of time or place.
Properties of light.
Direction
Intensity – Dimmers, neutral density gels
Shape – shutters, barndoors, gobos, edge focus, smoke or haze.
Colour – black and white are colours
Movement – walking through gobos, rotating gobos, moving lights, projection.
Electrical safety.
Lethal current
Earthing of lanterns
Circuit breakers
Fuses
Cables
Visual Inspection before Every use.
Testing and Tagging
Basic lantern types.
Floods
Profiles – Base Down and Axial or Ellipsoid
Gobos
Fresnels – lens – barndoors
Parcans
LED’s
Lighting angles.
McAndless method – front keylights 45 degree each side and up and backlight
Dance – Sidelight, backlight and frontlight
Music – Atmospheric, light sheet music, liaasse with musicians
Lighting desks
Basic Presets
Modern theatre desk - programming and use
Computer based – Light Factory - programming and use.
Moving lights desks –
Power usage
Watts is power consumption of a fixture
Three phase power
Dimmers
Conventional
Sine Wave
Switching options
Patching and cables.
Colours.
Additive Mixing – Primary RGB, Secondary CMY
Subtractive Mixing
Gels - Swatch books – The Art of Light – Lee http://www.clearlight.com.au/media/Lee_Filters/lee_filters_brochure.pdf The Rosco Guide to Color Filters http://www.clearlight.com.au/media/Rosco_Filters/rosco_filters_brochure.pdf
Split gels
Dichroic colour filters
Colour Scrollers
Special effects.
Gobos – fixed and moving
Effects projectors – Flame, water ripple, clouds, snow, strobes, u/v, moons, stars
Lamps, candles, scrims, haze, smoke
 
ARTISTIC SKILLS – Stage Lighting Design - Second session - Don Allen
Basic stage lighting design.
Stage areas – usually same as director – DSL,DSC,DSR, MSL,C,R, USL,C,R
Script Analysis – read through to get feeling, then to get cues and state changes
use a pencil and put tabs of pages for lighting cues.
Lighting plans.
Drawing Scale – usually 1:25
Scale pland and side elevation of the set
Stencils – speed up drawing plan, protractor, ruler, erasor - http://www.clsa.com.au/sales/stencils/stencils.html
Legend
Fixtures
Circuit or patch – octagonal box
Desk channel - circle
Dimmer channel – square box
Documentation.
Script analysis.
Rigging a show
Focussing.
Square one rig.
Technical rehearsals - Third Session - Ursula Andinach
Desk plotting.
Setting Fade Times
Stage workers for scene changes
Recording Scenes
Editing Scenes
Recording Stacks
Assigning Stacks
Editing Stacks
Running s show
Lamp checks.
Updated 3 March 2013