4. The Lighting Designer
• What is the Lighting Designer’s role?
• As part of a Collaborative Team the Designer must:
• Have an Artistic Concept
• Supervise the Lighting Crew
• Coordinate the hanging of the lights
• Be an effective communicator
• Respect and work well with others
5. Creative Team
• The Lighting Designer has to
work with the Director
• Attend Rehearsals
• Research the Play
• Design what the Director Wants
• The Director normally has final
say....!!!
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Director Winston Farrell with
Nathan Gibbons Lighting
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Lighting Designer Nathan Gibbons
6. Lighting Design?? What is it?
• What is Design ?
• Design or composition – the process of organising the visual elements to
effect a desired aesthetic in a work of art.
• Lighting design – the organisation of light and color to create visual and
logical solutions.
• Design principles – unity, variety, balance, emphasis, focal point, rhythm,
scale and proportion
7. Searching for Style
• Design elements of Lighting
• Contrast – Subjective measure
between light and dark
• Value – Quantitative measure of
the darkness and lightness
• Pattern – How the light moves
through the space
• Art – The combination of the
different lighting techniques and
sources. The magic. The ooh and
the ahh.
8. Principles of Lighting Composition
• Unity- Oneness of design. The
way the elements enhance and
relate to a space.
• Variety - Variation in colour,
focus and placement
• Proportion – symmetrical
relationship of one part to
another
9. Look at this slide and examine the three
principles unity, variety and proportion.
10. BUT HOW??
• How does he/she work to fulfil
their role?
• That is what you are here to
learn!!
• Look at the picture below. Men
and Women Work in Lighting all
over the world.
