Construct and Implement your own lighting designs with the most trusted guide to stage lighting!
An entertaining and educational read, author Steve Shelley draws from his 35 years of diverse experience to bring you the step-by-step technical tools for getting the job done along with real-life examples of projects from start to finish. Learn why some techniques are successful while other fail with 'Shelley's Notes' and 'Shelley's Soapbox,' all with a humor that guides you through complex problems and concepts.
- Over 60 new topics and forums, including creating and negotiating contracts, Technical Reheasal Tactics, and working with stage
managers, assistants and others during rehearsals
- Learn what you'll need to have for each phase of the project, from the load-in and programming the lighting console through the
focus session to the cueing session, the tech rehearsals and (finally!) the performance
- Get the trouble-shooting tips you need quickly with 'Shelley's Notes' and 'Shelley's Soapbox'
- Know what you're getting into! Understand what affects your lighting design, such as the contract, the budget, the size of
production, the schedule, and your performance facility
- Learn from others' mistakes! Real-life examples show you what working in an array of productions is actually like!
Chapter 1 : A Review
Chapter 2 : Paperwork Overview
Chapter 3 : Background Preparations and Preliminary Design Paperworks
Chapter 4 : The Parameters
Chapter 5 : Create the Preliminaries and Send out the Shop
Chapter 6 : Cuts and Changes
Chapter 7 : The Light Plot, Section, and Support Paperwork Packet
Chapter 8 : The Load-In and Focus Packet
Chapter 9 : The Cue Construction Packet
Chapter 10 : Prior to the Load-In
etc.
If you are looking for esoteric design theory this is not the book for you. However, if you need a get-down-to-business, everything you think you need to know, nothing left out, lists of questions you should ask, answers you should consider, check lists, and the most extensive graphic layout of forms and focus information in any book, then this 2nd edition has answered all your questions and a bunch you didn't think you needed to know. You have got to have this book if you consider yourself a professional, period.
-- James Moody, author of Concert Lighting --
Steven Louis Shelley has worked in theatre for over 35 years. He's been a lighting designer, production manager, and stage manager in New York City, throughout the United States, and on four continents. He's designed lighting On-Broadway and Off-Broadway, as well as concerts, television, regional theatre, and regional opera. Steve's work has also been seen at the Spoleto Festival USA, where he was the Lighting and Scenic Coordinator for 16 years. Steve is the inventor and patent holder of the award-winning Field Templates and SoftSymbols