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Lesson 3 - Lighting Design ActivityLesson 3 - Lighting Design Activity
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Lesson 3 - Lighting Design

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This Lesson 3 - Lighting Design activity also includes:
  • The Elements of Design
  • Wallwisher
  • Stage Lighting: Lekos (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlights)
  • Stage Lighting: Fresnels
  • WICKED Lighting: Lighting Plot
  • Gobos
  • Gel Colour Effect Filters
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The final lesson in a series on theatre design spotlights how lighting is incorporated into a production. After watching videos that focus on lighting fixtures and their positioning, individuals create a basic design plan for a scene, listing any gels or gobos employed, and annotate their plan to explain their choices of colors, angles, and fixtures.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

elements of drama, dramatizations, light, lightning, properties of light, musical theater, sets

Additional Tags

visual and performing arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Arrange for class members to experiment with the lighting fixtures available to them

Classroom Considerations

  • Third a three-part series designed for theatre arts classes
  • Presumes learners are familiar the various lighting fixtures and functions, gels,
  • The video for the Domino Light Show is blocked on copyright grounds

Pros

  • Includes a video of the lighting plot for Wicked 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.11-12.1 SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a

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