This workshop covers:
- Learn fundamentals of colour theory for live performance
- Understand fundamental concepts in lighting distribution for theatre
- Explore professional methods to organise your responses to a script
- Create theatrical lighting compositions
This one-day workshop focuses on the fundamentals for theatrical lighting design practice for drama teachers, community theatre artists, students exploring theatre design fields for the first-time, and other creative practitioners. During the course, you will develop your understanding of key stage lighting concepts which can be applied towards scripted plays, musicals, and devised performances. This course will introduce the lighting designer’s process and provide pathways to realise theatrical lighting design.
Module information
Module 1: Building a Vocabulary of Colour Theory for Live Performance
- Define the principles of theatrical lighting design
- Demonstrate colour theory for live performance
- Comprehend gel swatch colour spectrums & CIE chromaticity charts
- Analyse colour psychology in stage lighting
Module 2: Exploring Theatrical Lighting Compositions
- Recognise stage lighting instruments & their key attributes
- Identify core ideas in lighting distribution practice
- Recognise key pre-production & production documents
- Compose a simple lighting cue from a pre-existing repertory lighting plot
Module 3: Structuring Lighting Cues Across a Performance
- Survey script analysis methods for theatrical lighting designers
- Plan a cueing sequence for a song from musical theatre (as a class)
- Design a visual response to a song from musical theatre (as a class)
- Input segments of the visual response into a lighting console (as a class)
Meet the facilitator
Dr Carl Walling has 14 years of experience in higher education across Australia and the United States. He serves as the study component coordinator for the Bachelor of Creative Industries: Theatre and Performance degree at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Over his higher education career, Carl has collaborated as lighting designer on over seventy theatre, musical theatre, and modern dance productions. In 2009, two of his lighting designs were selected for inclusion at World Stage Design in South Korea.
His current research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century performance design, twentieth century dramatic literature, and the performance of the Antarctic. Carl has presented conference papers and participated on conference panels hosted by the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT), the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA), the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT), the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) and other university-affiliated conferences.