Designing A Lighting System
This is a vital section of your portfolio where you tie together everything you have learned and show you can understand how to put together a lighting system for a stage in a hall/theatre:
Design a lighting system for a performance of your choice.
You can pick a venue of your choice as long as you are able to take measurements to produce a scale diagram of the room in which to place your equipment.
Your design should include:
- various type of lantern for different purposes (e.g. lighting individual performers, washing the stage in different colours, special effects – this are just a few ideas)
- running costs for the lanterns
- a consideration of which type of lanterns can be positioned at different parts of the room
- how the lighting levels will be controlled and where that equipment will be
- how different colours will be produced (remember the lanterns are hung from the ceiling) and which colours are needed for your performance
A lot of the marks for this task are for your application of the science from the first chapter, so make sure all aspects of your design are explained/applied.
We will look at examples of this task in lesson time. Remember there is nothing new here, just putting together all you’ve learned.