Introduction to Lighting Design for CSEC Students.

1. Lighting Design: An
Introduction
Where do you begin?

2. Two examples of candle light? What kind of
plays would you create with these images?

3. Flashlight and Moonlight? What kind of plays
would you create using the images below?

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.