A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting

The new edition of the bestselling favorite that you have been waiting for! This is the same nuts-and-bolts look at the construction and implementation of theatrical lighting design that you need, but with a unique focus on design with a combination of theory and application that can't be found anywhere else. A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting has handy step-by-step illustrations of the technical tools and methods used for lighting design along with real life examples showing why some techniques succeed while others fail. With Shelley's Notes, Notes from the Road, and Shelley's Soapbox, this book finds a way to deliver complex information with a lightness and humor that captivates and helps you learn without bogging you down with boring and heavy information. Topics covered: * Defining the parameters that affect any lighting design: the contract, the budget, the type and size of the production, the production schedule, and the performance facility * An analysis of the concepts of light console programming * Setting up * The light plot * Safe construction * new updated information on using automated lighting in design, WYSIWYG, safety, use of new materials, and video projection, - so that you have the updated information that will make you a successful lighting designer in today's theatre * new information on the Hokey light plot, including system construction, channel arrangement, accessory selection, etc. * new documents including the distribution list, cue mater, magic sheet, and cheat sheet * how the computer is used during the tech process and at the production table * more case studies and lessons and an expansion of chapters on gobos, color, shop orders, and new lighting gear * new chapters on pre-visualization software, DMX devices and intelligent lighting