Stage Lighting Design

On Stage Lighting brings you information and articles about stage and theatre lighting design below which are listed in reverse date order.
If you are just starting out, you might prefer to jump straight to one of these places:
Crash Course in Stage Lighting Design
Stage Lighting Basics – Free Resources
Rules in Stage Lighting Design
Lighting The Stage
Lighting an Orchestra
Stage Lighting Guides

Olympic Sized Lighting Design

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What if the phone rang tomorrow and ….?

“Hi. We’ve got this little show coming up in 2012. It’s in East London and we’d like a bit of lighting to liven the place up.”

Where the **** do you start with an Olympic sized lighting design? Or any large scale lighting design for that matter?

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Reflected Colour in Stage Lighting Design

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A look at a simple principle of stage lighting colour theory – reflected light. This article explains how coloured light interacts with sets and costumes and how to avoid errors when choosing saturated colour for your theatre lighting.

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Colour Correction Filters – More Stage Lighting Gels

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Colour correction lighting filters are an easy solution to achieve a standardised white light. Following on from Colour Temperature …, this article looks at colour correction filters and their uses in lighting design, both practical and artistic.

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Colour Temperature

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Good stage lighting makes use of coloured light to create mood or depict the lighting in a specific location and time of day. This article gives you an introduction to colour temperature, why it is important and it’s relevance in stage lighting design.

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Your First Lighting Design How To – A crash course in 10 steps

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On Stage Lighting recently had a number of questions on doing a first lighting design. If you have been given the job of lighting designer for your next school play, this crash course will help you learn the basics of the lighting design process. It won’t help you learn all the detail of how to do a complex lighting design, but the 10 steps will get you started.

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Stage Lighting Tutorials – Stage Lighting 101 Review

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There are some good free stage lighting tutorials on the web and the daddy of them is Stage Lighting 101 by Bill Williams. Bill Williams has a pedigree as an international lighting designer, lighting author and teacher and his work is a must for beginners.

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