Acting Profile

 
There is no rule to theatrical lighting yet there are many ways of lighting the stage. Every performance has different requirements and you would not light a production of Wicked in the same way you would light Britain’s Got Talent. By giving simple instructions about what type of lighting needs the production has the lighting designer can then go away and design a lighting plan. That is why it is so important to give accurate and detailed lighting instructions.

We want the lighting to project the mood of the production. Be careful when focussing on mood that visibility is not lost. There may be times during the production where we want the mood to interfere with the visibility, but we still need to be able to see faces and body language on the stage. Projections will be needed as will moving effects such as when the character walks across the stage. By using the automated lighting fixture we can cut through the mood lighting effects and add better managed, detailed lighting to actors anywhere on the set.

We need to look at a combination of several different lighting methods we do not want one single source to light the whole stage although this would be possible it doesn’t suit our production. There is a separate room on the set with a television in it and we need the light to be low in this room. It would be good if we could have the light only from the television so that it would be very naturalistic.

A series of isolated down lights or a single diagonal backlight, against an illuminated cyclorama would work excellently for when the contestant comes on stage to do their performance. This would make it more interesting and different. It is also quite different.

As you can see from reading this lighting the stage can be done in many different ways and there are no set rules that govern you to doing lighting in one set way.

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