An Introduction to Lighting Design Notes from Gillette’s Designing with Light

 Selectively illuminate the stage  Sculpt and model actors, scenery and costumes  Create atmosphere and mood in support of the story and concept

 Distribution  Direction  Shape and Size  Quality or Cohesiveness i.e. Diffusion  Character or Texture  Smooth, uneven, patterned, hard or soft edged.

IIntensity or brightness The Glass Menagerie, Rockhurst University

 Movement  The timed duration of a Light Cue  The movement of onstage lights  i.e. lantern or candle being carried across the stage  The movement of offstage lights  Followspot

 Color

 Visibility

 Selective Focus Side Man, ASU-Jonesboro

 Modeling Wait Until Dark, ASU-Jonesboro

 Mood A Christmas Carol, New Stage Theatre