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Stage Lighting Design: A Practical Guide (Paperback)

by Neil Fraser (Author), Richard Attenborough (Foreword) "Any light source pointed at a darkened stage could be described as stage lighting..." (more)
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In Stage Lighting Design, a leading expert guides readers through experience to knowledge, inviting them to investigate every aspect of the roles of the stage electrician and the lighting designer. Among the topics covered are: choosing and using equipment; working with color; techniques for focusing; planning, testing, and executing a lighting design; lighting in the round and other staging layouts; and lighting Shakespeare, Brecht, and many other production styles. Throughout, safety points are emphasized and clearly highlighted in the text. Stage Lighting Design is complete with 40 lighting designs, 150 photos and diagrams, and 75 exercises that will enable readers to practice their skills.

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Crowood Press (October 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861262485
ISBN-13: 978-1861262486
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Neil Fraser shows LDs the light at the end of the tunnel!, June 15, 2001

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Neil Fraser, Head of Lighting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art has continued his excellent guides to the world of theatre lighting design with "Stage Lighting Design, A Practical Guide". This book gives a fantastic first time insight into lighting design for beginners as well as giving useful tips to slightly more experienced designers and students.

Sections are concise and maintain your interest with the use of innovative exercise suggestions and links to real life situations from Neil's own career. This is a valuable commodidty in a book of this kind, where it is easy to become bogged down in essential but unexciting theory - the book covers all the essentials in an easy to digest fashion as well as expanding on them to support their relvance to the career.

It will shortly be followed by its partner book on Lighting Theory in order to complete the knowledge base required to begin lighting theatre.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good course, but somewhat antiquated, December 21, 2004

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Fraser, an veteran instructor at RADA, takes a indirect method of teaching design, calling for self-discovery through the book's exercises. While commendable and valuable, the reader may be frustrated at times with the myriad of questions often left without answers. It is helpful to think of this as not a book in lighting, but rather a course. Much like any other class, you will get as much out as you put in to it.

The book is filled with over 70 hand-on exercises. These range from learning to appreciate natural lighting to hanging hanging various rigs in a lighting lab. However, readers who do not have extensive access to a lighting lab or studio space likely will not find much of this text useful as it calls for direct access to luminaries and a grid for a majority of the exercises.

American readers will often be confounded with the instrumentation used throughout the book. This is complicated with the voltage difference in the UK, as well as the odd terminological colloquialism.

For the American reader, this is a great self-paced course in lighting design for a student with the time and facilities to work hands on with hanging and focusing a plot. I would not recommend this book to a novice LD as this is not this best first source for learning the most basic terms and technique when working in American theaters.