Short lighting courses in Perth
Wed, 11 Aug 2004, 11:46 amthebigT4 posts in thread
Short lighting courses in Perth
Wed, 11 Aug 2004, 11:46 amHi there,
I've been doing a fair bit of work with some student productions, helping out here and there, green room and front of house work, stuff like that, but working in theatre lighting really intrigues me. All my previous experience (of which none involves lighting) in theatre, has been done at the dolphin theatre, but I'm happy to learn anywhere..
I'm just wondering
* What the standard prerequisite is to be able to work with lighting, even as an assistant in a theatre.. surely it's not the Cert IV from WAAPA/TAFE..
* I saw a while back (few years ago) that there was a guy offering free basic lighting courses for a small fee (you had to buy $25 membership to the theatre).. now, the only theatre lighting courses I can find in perth are the three-year-long fulltime courses.. :S Does anyone know where in Perth you can do a short lighting course at a reasonable price? (Reasonable doesn't have to be $25, just not $1000..)
Cheers
- The big T
I've been doing a fair bit of work with some student productions, helping out here and there, green room and front of house work, stuff like that, but working in theatre lighting really intrigues me. All my previous experience (of which none involves lighting) in theatre, has been done at the dolphin theatre, but I'm happy to learn anywhere..
I'm just wondering
* What the standard prerequisite is to be able to work with lighting, even as an assistant in a theatre.. surely it's not the Cert IV from WAAPA/TAFE..
* I saw a while back (few years ago) that there was a guy offering free basic lighting courses for a small fee (you had to buy $25 membership to the theatre).. now, the only theatre lighting courses I can find in perth are the three-year-long fulltime courses.. :S Does anyone know where in Perth you can do a short lighting course at a reasonable price? (Reasonable doesn't have to be $25, just not $1000..)
Cheers
- The big T
Re: Short lighting courses in Perth
Fri, 13 Aug 2004, 09:33 amHello Big T
The 9 to 5 workshop is set up for Directors to demonstrate to them what theatre lighting can do to help improve the quality of their production, which lighting is a partner with the other areas.
Good lighting , which can be a bare 60 watt globe suspended in the middle if a stage dimmed down to a dim glow, or a square one rig of over 60 lights and 24 dimmer channels doing a comedy, can assist a production by providing the mood, atmosphere and motivation to complement the set and blocking. good lighting is usually not noticed by the audience and rarely get acknowledged.
Poor lighting usually occurs due to poor or no planning process and inexperienced or untrained lighting crew and is usually independant of what equipment is available.
Yes you can join the Garrick on the day of the course and we hope you will come back and do shows for the Garrick, but if not, hopefully you are doing lighting for other clubs so Perth theatre still wins.
You need to learn the basics and principles before you can light shows properly.
I start all of my lighting workshops by getting the participants to go outside and point out to them what natural and artificial lighting is doing to the environment around them, after all that is what we are trying to recreate on stage, then point out that it is is physically impossible to do with our limited budgets, but with with planning and practice, we can start to approach the same look.
The Directors Sunday course is free if your club is a member or affiliated with the ITA.
If you want to learn the basics of theatre lighting then you should do the first two Sunday mornings.
Don Allen
The 9 to 5 workshop is set up for Directors to demonstrate to them what theatre lighting can do to help improve the quality of their production, which lighting is a partner with the other areas.
Good lighting , which can be a bare 60 watt globe suspended in the middle if a stage dimmed down to a dim glow, or a square one rig of over 60 lights and 24 dimmer channels doing a comedy, can assist a production by providing the mood, atmosphere and motivation to complement the set and blocking. good lighting is usually not noticed by the audience and rarely get acknowledged.
Poor lighting usually occurs due to poor or no planning process and inexperienced or untrained lighting crew and is usually independant of what equipment is available.
Yes you can join the Garrick on the day of the course and we hope you will come back and do shows for the Garrick, but if not, hopefully you are doing lighting for other clubs so Perth theatre still wins.
You need to learn the basics and principles before you can light shows properly.
I start all of my lighting workshops by getting the participants to go outside and point out to them what natural and artificial lighting is doing to the environment around them, after all that is what we are trying to recreate on stage, then point out that it is is physically impossible to do with our limited budgets, but with with planning and practice, we can start to approach the same look.
The Directors Sunday course is free if your club is a member or affiliated with the ITA.
If you want to learn the basics of theatre lighting then you should do the first two Sunday mornings.
Don Allen