Author : Skip Mort
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1408123576
A practical guide to stage lighting with easy access to the content via tabulated sections and keywords, plus a DVD demonstrating techniques and effects.
Author : Harry Box
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136046577
Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including LEDs, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs. New to the fourth edition: * Detailed information on LED technology and gear * Harmonized with union safety and training procedures * All the latest and greatest DMX gadgets, including remote control systems * Many new and useful lights and how to use them and troubleshoot them. * New additions to the arsenal of electrical distribution equipment that make our sets safer and easier to power. * More rigging tricks and techniques. * the same friendly, easy to read style that has made this book so popular.
Author : Charles I. Swift
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
This invaluable reference book covers the fundamentals of stage lighting, focusing on the qualitites of light, how to use available tools and how to process a lighting design
Author : Richard Pilbrow
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Higher School Certificate Examination (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 9781854599964
"Stage Lighting Design" covers the complete history, theory and - above all - practice of lighting design. It contains 450 black and white half tones, 60 colour photos and innumerable diagrams, lighting plots etc. "Stage Lighting Design" is arranged in four sections: Design: the basic principles, illustrated with reference to specific productions; History: a brief survey of the historical development of stage lighting; Life: interviews with 14 other lighting designers, plus notes on Pilbrow's own career; and Mechanics: a vast section dealing with all the technical data today's designer will need.
Author : Steven Shelley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136083820
The long awaited new edition of this celebrated bestseller.
Author : Skip Mort
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474212719
This practical guide covers all aspects of stage lighting equipment, special effects, lighting a performance space and lighting design. It is well illustrated with examples of equipment, diagrams, plans and technical data. It also features the work of current lighting designers. The associated video content shows the practical use of equipment and different lighting techniques and effects. It provides easy access to the content through the use of tabulated sections and keyword headings. The information in each chapter is presented at three levels which run visually throughout the guide enabling students to mix and match their own personal level of study or for practitioners to fast track through to the information they need on stage. This new and revised second edition brings the guide right up to date, and includes all new material on the development of LED lighting in recent years, as well as online video resources.
Author : Jody Briggs
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476603006
This encyclopedia contains more than 1500 detailed entries covering such topics as equipment, methods, concepts, design process, electricity, characteristics of light, and lightboard operations. Where applicable, entries present both the historical and current significance of the apparatus or concept being described. Entries are extensively cross-referenced, and many include line drawings and samples of lighting paperwork.
Author : Richard E. Dunham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1315454688
Stage Lighting: The Fundamentals is written specifically for introductory stage lighting courses. The book begins with an examination of the nature of light, perception, and color, then leads into a conversation of stage lighting equipment and technicians. Lamps, luminaries, controls/dimming, and electricity form the basis of these chapters. The book also provides a detailed explanation and overview of the lighting design process for the theatre and several other traditional forms of entertainment. Finally, the book explores a variety of additional areas where lighting designers can find related future employment, such as concert and corporate lighting, themed design, architectural and landscape lighting, and computer animation. New for this edition: enlarged full-color illustrations, photographs, light plots and examples of lighting design; updated information on LED lighting and equipment; expanded discussion of the practical use of color as a designer; expanded discussion of psychological/perceptual effects of color; new discussion of color mixing through light sources that make use of additive mixing; expanded discussion of industry professions; expanded discussion and illustrations relating to photometrics; expanded discussion and examples of control protocols and new equipment; and updated designer profiles along with the addition of still more designer profiles.
Author : Richard Cadena
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136085262
Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance and Entertainment continues to be the most trusted text for working and aspiring lighting professionals. Now in its second edition, it has been fully updated to include new advances in lamp sources such as LEDs and plasma lamps, automated and programmable displays, updates for managing color, and new methods for using electronics. Its clear, easy-to-understand language also includes enough detailed information for the most experienced technician and engineer.
Author : Max Keller
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783791336855
Revised, updated and expanded, this classic primer on theatrical lighting design features the latest technological advances as well as photos and diagrams from the author?s newest productions.A virtuoso in the field, Max Keller has set new standards of technical and artistic excellence. In this book he divulges his extensive knowledge of every aspect of stage lighting, from natural phenomena and the history of light in the theater, to Goethe and Runge?s theories of color, to the fundamentals of optics and projection. This revised edition of Light Fantastic includes new images from Keller?s most recent productions as well as completely updated information on optics, lamps, lanterns, projection and lighting consoles. In more than 600 stunning photographs and illustrations, the power of Keller?s expertise shines through, making this a visually exciting and highly informative work for those involved in theater technology.Max Keller is an internationally acclaimed designer and consultant for productions on some of the world?s most celebrated stages, including the Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Opera House, the Salzburg Festival and The Munchner Kammerspiele.
