Technical Theatre Program

Types of Lights
Blocking
Light Plan
Video Mapping
Stage Lighting
Type of Lights
Halogen bulb – not LED

• Fresnel – side lights , with banders, borders

• Has a wavy lenses, ondulary , fading out shadows
• Degrade shadow

• PC – Plan Convex , is similar as Fresnel but with different lenses –

convex plan, flat lenses , Sharp shadow
• At LGB we have
• Mini PC -550w
• Harmony – 1000w
• Profile - common use for side / dance lights
• Has Shutters
• Shutters change the shape of the light-
• you make squares, triangles shape etc
• Shutters work on opposition due the mirror inside the lamp
• You can use the intensity of the bulbs to create atmosphere
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• At LGB we have
• SL Baby
• SL Mothers –can use Gobo
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• Floodlight
• Can be used to help in the entrance in the start of a show,
• Creates interesting shadows
• Follow Spot
• Used for solo performance, singers, solo guitar
• Easy to manipulate, at LGB students are places over the grid and use
microphones to communicate with Regie / Control Room
 
• PARCAN – parabolic aluminium reflector
• Three types of lenses – 60 – 61 - 62 - affects the ray of lights -
• A parabolic aluminized reflector lamp (also PARCAN light, , or
simply PAR) is a type of electric lamp that is widely used in
commercial, residential, and transportation
Directions & ANGLES
Front – back – sides – top – floor – high - low
• 45 degrees or 90 degrees showers
• Avoid lights on the cyclorama, use bandores
• Backlights are helpful to change scenes, since we do not see actors
face, manly younger actors
• Side lights creates a curtain of lights, you disappear and appear on
stage
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• Smoke & Explosions
• Smoke & explosive machine are controlled by remote control
• Salt smoke – Safex – stay on the ground because is heavy
GAMES & Ideas
• Walk, freeze, point a tech element in the space
• Blocking – positions on the stage - Downs Stage, Up Stage, DSL, DSR
• Say positions and kids place themselves in the space, do in a opposite way

• Ghost Game – walk, stop, close your eyes and listen to sounds of the space, the teacher
will bring their hands close to someone’s ears and if you sense a difference say Ghost,
( than you are safe) otherwise teacher touches shoulders and student became a ghost

• Happy Birthday song in many different moods, horror, funny, drunk, suspense

• TABLEU – freeze frame – some holds a light and bring lights in different angles, so they
have an introduction to learn angles - You can also use a phone light

• 5 images of tension, 5 images of character, 5 images of costume ( texture, colours , shapes

etc ) , to create a Mood Board

• Create small and huge shadows

 Blocking & Stage Directions

Stage Directions
Stage left / right are from the actor’s perspective

House left/right are from the audience’s perspective              

The stage itself has been given named areas to facilitate blocking.[6]
•The rear of the stage area, farthest from the audience, is upstage. The front, nearest the audience, is downstage.
•In English-speaking cultures generally, stage left and stage right refer to the actor's left and right when facing the audience.)
•House left and house right refer to the audience perspective. In productions for film or video, analogous terms are screen
left/right and camera left/right. Look up 
•To cross is to move. An actor placed up-stage right in blocking may bestage right, 
instructed by a director to cross down-stage left when
speaking a line. stage left, 
upstage, or 
downstage in
Wiktionary, the
free dictionary.
Non-English-speaking cultures
•In French, house right is côté cour (court side) and house left is côté jardin (garden side).
•In German, Italian and Arabic, left and right always refer to the audience perspective.
•In Cantonese Opera, stage right is called Yi Bin (the side of clothings) and stage left is Zaap Bin (the side of props).
Public - Audience
Theatrical Concepts
• Concept is to
• Create a dialogue among lights using different intensity and angles

How a Light / Sound Designer use production and performance

elements to create effective moments of atmosphere, emotion or
tension, or moments that communicate meaning in the live theatre
performance experience – pg 45

• TEAM
• Tension
• Emotions
• Atmosphere
• Mood
Light Plan & Emotions / Moods
The light form the top creates more tension

• LIGHT PLAN
• SYMBOLS to include in a light plan are universal
ETC Element Console – Light Board Control
to learn further information on cues, sub master, programing please
see tutorial video –
https://www.etcconnect.com/Support/Tutorials/Introduction-to-Ele
ment.aspx?LangType=1033
Hard & Soft PATCHING
http://www.stagelightingprimer.com/index.html?slfs-patching.html&2
VIDEO MAPPING

How to use mapping in theatre performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd0BED7HEYY

• Software, qlab, modul8, is the sane company as mad mapper so easy

to transfer data, images and sounds
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• mad mapper https://madmapper.com/
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• From a power point, you save it as pictures so you can project
• you tell the video projector which pixels you want to see
• for theatre you can use only one projector
Video Mapping

Tutorial 1 –
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlKtvh1f-jw
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• pre set
• computer should be not on a mirror mode,
• 1 – you select the area to be projected – out put
• Select image
• Program cost about CHF 250.00
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• You can create a green screen
 IB Material
IB Criteria - Director’s Notebook
• Demands to explore two elements – Performance and productions
elements
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• Production elements to explore
• Lights, sounds, space, costume and set
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• HOW TO LINK TECH WITH EMOTIONS or THEATRE STYLES –
Romantism, Futurism, Dadaism – Painters Caravaggio, Dali, Monet,
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• Frantic Assembly invites the artist( light designer) to be part of the
creative process
IB Material

• IPC Exercise
• Find an object – light from an angle, draw the story board, the
position of the lights, the direction , the object and the shadow

• Find different textures, links with colours and emotions, tell a story
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• http://www.stagelightingprimer.com/index.html?slfs-patching.html&
2
IB Material -Mapping
• IB Exams –
• Link to practioners, Robert Le Page, Robert Wilson
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• Resources
• https://www.skynight.com/en/
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• Fete de Lumiere - Lyon
• http://www.fetedeslumieres.lyon.fr/fr/actualite/workshop-mapping
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• Eurovision show 2016
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e94dst20C9Y
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• laser projector NEC – about CHF 7000 - 8000
• https://www.necdisplay.com/category?category=projectors#2
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• ruicunha@hotmail.com