Qualities of Lighting

Question 1

What is Brightness/Intensity
How should you describe it?

Answer 1

Is the light bright or dim
Describe it in %

Question 2

What is Distribution?

Answer 2

What areas of the stage does the light cover

Question 3

What does the angle of the light control

Answer 3

Where the light comes from
where the shadow falls

Question 4

How can you use colour?

Answer 4

Unfiltered light=white light
We can use coloured lights to create various emotions and ideas

Question 5

How do you control Beam Shape

Answer 5

You can control beam shape by using gobos, barn doors or shutters

Question 6

What does spread mean?

Answer 6

Different Lanterns allow light to spread in different ways
Hard Light= Little Spread Defined Shadows
Soft Light= spread,fuzzy light edges

Question 7

Change

Answer 7

Moving between lighting states. Usually by fading. The length of fades is signfignt :give the time in seconds.

Snap or Bump: as fast as possible

Question 8

Movement

Answer 8

Motorised lights can move light.
Rowing- beams of light travelling along a fixed path i.e circle-back and forth

Follow Spots- are manually controlled, usually to point at moving actor

Chase- Pattern of lights turning on/off to suggest movement