1. Stage Lighting has many purposes. Some of which include: Illumination: Ability to see what is occurring onstage. Revelation of Form: Altering the perception of shapes onstage Focus: Directing the audience's attention to an area of the stage or distracting them from another. Mood: Setting the tone of a scene. Location and Time of Day: Establishing time and space. Projection/Stage Elements: Projecting scenery or acting as scenery on stage. Plot: A lighting event may trigger or advance the action onstage. Technical Theater: Stage Lighting Instruments Sydney Little

2.  Lighting instruments are categorized into “flood lights” or “spot lights”  Flood lights illuminate a large area of space  Spot lights are narrow beams of light which illuminate a more specific spot

3. Different kinds of flood lights include:  Parabolic Aluminized Reflector lights (PAR lights): very common because of their low cost, light weight, easy maintenance, high durability, and high output. Also used for top, back, and side stage lighting. Similar to car headlights.  Strip lights, aka cyclorama or cyc lights (named because they are effective for lighting the cyclorama, a curtain at the back of the stage.) Used to light back drop. Typically used with colored gels.  Scoop lights: no lenses, used to flood the stage with light from above, often used as worklights  LED lights: uses halogen lamps or high- intensity discharge lamps. Can created almost any color

4. Parabolic Scoop Strip LED

5. Different kinds of spot lights include:  Fresnel lantern: The look of the light is wide and soft- edged. It is commonly used to create dark shadows, back light, top light, and side light.  Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight: creates silhouette  Beam projector: lens less instrument with little beam spread. 2 reflectors. The primary reflector is parabolic and the secondary reflector is spherical  Moving lights: use arc lamps as a light source, Some have standard halogen lamp, stepper motors connected to various devices

6. Fresnel lantern Ellipsoidal reflector Beam projector Moving Lights