Lighting

Question 1

What is the Lighting Crew responsible for?

Answer 1

For all lighting in the auditorium, including house lights.

Question 2

What is the equipment needed for Lighting Crew?

Answer 2

~ Lighting clipboard
~ copy of program’s order
~ lighting forms for each number
~ blank paper for notes
~ pen/pencil
~ Radio (201/202 - shared between lighting and permeant sound)
~ Flashlight

Question 3

What is the lighting setup?

Answer 3

1. Turn on the video camera in the camera opening – so backstage crew can see the stage on the backstage monitors.
2. The lighting can be run from the booth or the pit. Although the board usually resides in the booth, it can be moved to the pit

• To move the board, make sure it is turned off, then disconnect the power cord and the 5-pin DMX cord from the back of the board
• Bring the DMX cord and the power adapter down to the pit, along with the lighting board
• Set up the lighting board on the table in the pit and plug it into one of the electrical sockets along the front of the stage.
• Plug the male end into the lighting board and the female end into the Lighting Board switch in the Right wing.

3. Turning on the Lighting Board: Press and release the power button. The startup process will run once the console is powered up. This process includes a welcome screen in the LCD window showing the software version currently installed in the console. If the power is disconnected, the start-up will take longer.

Question 4

Lighting forms

Answer 4

• You must have 1 sheet for every number, regardless of what kind of an act it is. The only numbers without sheets are the MC introductions – those are straightforward: podium light on, everything else off.
• All sheets will be submitted to me a minimum of 2 days before an assembly dress rehearsal and posted in the Google Classroom for your review. Review them. If you wish to add your own notes, you may but then you are responsible for printing them out (you can use I’s office computer and printer to do this). Otherwise, I will print copies of the originals for you
• Any number that has not submitted a Lighting Request Form will simply receive a black-out to enter and exit and nothing else. Please create a form for these numbers so that we can mark them down in the order. There are blank forms in a basket in the booth and in the filing cabinet backstage.
• You will need musical cues from the permanent sound Crew for the appropriate number. Music cues will be timed by the progress bar on the computer (in whatever app you wish to use)
• Every number will have a maximum of 7 cues. Cue #1 is the entrance cue while Cue #7 is the exit cue. Be prepared for each number to have this many! Ms. J. is also known for breaking her own rules and adding extra cues, sometimes even programming a whole new page for her piece, so be ready for this!! (She likes to challenge you!)

Question 5

What is Channel Mode?

Answer 5

channel is the basic control of individual lights.

corresponds with a number from 1-96, each light socket is “patched” to a channel.

Each channel (thus each light) has 2 different access methods: a bump and a fader or slider. The bumps will light up in green when a light is activated

Question 6

What is Playback Mode?

Answer 6

Playback mode is accessed by using the Playback button on the screen (in purple)

10 possible playback pages to record on

Subroutines are programmed channels set to one bump/fader combination

can set a number of lights onto one switch so that with one bump or fader, can light the whole stage.

will light up in purple to show that a subroutine is programmed

Question 7

What is Patch?

Answer 7

console defaults to a “1 to 1” patch mode, meaning that Channel One controls DMX Value One (the light that is plugged into socket #1), Channel Two controls DMX Value Two, and so on through all of your available channels.

simplest version of a patch and is the most common, easy to remember and provides immediate control with all of your available channels

possible to create a custom patch by assigning any DMX channel to any control channel (but DON’T!). However, any DMX output channel may only be patched to one channel at a time.

Question 8

What is Bump?

Answer 8

the lit button (coloured purple if something is programmed into it on the Playback page or green if you are in channel mode) that works like a regular light switch. It has two basic conditions: on and off

Question 9

What is a Slider/Fader?

Answer 9

Slider/Fader: the small sliding bar located directly above the bump that works like a dimmer – light can be moved to the desired level of intensity

Question 10

What are Master Bumps/Faders

Answer 10

4 master Fader Controls above the LCD screen.

2 of them to be master sliders and master bump controls - this means that whatever level the master is set at will become the new “100%” for all sliders or bumps.

can also program the last 2 Master Faders to replace the commonly used Crossfaders.

Crossfaders are ideally used in two-scene mode, use the crossfaders to slowly transition between the row #1 lights and the row #2 lights