A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting

Steven Louis Shelley, Jennifer Tipton(Frw)

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"A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting" is destined to become the definative source of instruction in the field of theatrical lighting. With the books emphasis on the process of light design it gives the reader the tools necessary to create the art. Whether your goal is to become a good stage electrician or a good designer the explainations in this book will allow you to work and communicate quickly and efficiently during that precious time allotted for load-in, hang and focus.
Steve Shelley, by taking a chronological approach to light design, illustarates exactly what goes into a successful design. He defines his terms, explains why he does things, and provides anecdotes and insights that make the book entertaining and easy to read.
The final section of the book on how to focus lights will teach you more about creating and implementing a light design than any other book you have, can or will read.

Theatre Backstage from A to Z

Warren C. Lounsbury, Norman C. Boulanger

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Great source of info on stage terminology
Know what a GOBO is? Need a refresher on painting techniques? Or need to know how to light your stage or build special scenery? It's in this book!! An excellent resource book for amateur and professional alike. You'll find yourself referring back to it many, many times during the course of producing a play. I wouldn't want to be without it and recommend it to directors, producers and anyone involved in theatre!!

Structural Design for the Stage

Alys Holden, Bronislaw Sammler

Synopsis

A background and technical understanding of "why sets stand up", aimed at theatrical technicians. It introduces basic statistics and the study of materials as it applies to theatrical scenery and presents design values for various materials and tables providing construction and engineering data.

Concert Lighting

Techniques, Art, and Business

James L. Moody

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"Concert Lighting : Techniques, Art, and Business" is one of the most useful books on lighting. I have been a lighting designer for a few years now, and have read many many books on lighting, theater and concert. "Concert Lighting : Techniques, Art, and Business" goes into great depth for designing with intelligent lighting, as well as using fogs, hazzers and pars. "Concert Lighting : Techniques, Art, and Business" also gives great information on all companys from which to buy these items, and the many different ways to control them. "Concert Lighting : Techniques, Art, and Business" is a definite winner with my company and I. I will continue to refer "Concert Lighting : Techniques, Art, and Business" to all associates in my field, as well as in others.

Discovering Stage Lighting

Francis Reid

Synopsis

Exploring the use of light in the theatre, this text places particular emphasis on the interaction of conflicting visual aims. The projects included cover all the major scenarios likely to be encountered by students.

This is almost a lab manual or self study guide on creating lighting effects. Reid gives some technique information but the core of the book is a series of exercises/design problems which you can explore on your own. The way to learn how light behaves is to use it and Reid's problems provide a structured framework to experiment with one aspect at a time.

Stage Lighting Controls

Synopsis

This text offers an introductory explanation of advanced computerized lightboards. It aims to provide a basic understanding of the software in these systems, explaining historically where general functions have evolved from and how they are designed to be used.

Stage Rigging Handbook

Jay O. Glerum

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Stage Rigging Handbook is an excellent book on a subject that's often ignored or glanced over in tech theater books. It's very hard to find, good, authoritative information on stage rigging, but Glerum is "The" authority. The book is packed with information and photos. It clearly covers the physics involved in rigging, the types of equipment (both old and new), the maintenance, and the do's and don't of the craft. It's not always totally clear, but the wealth of practical, and in many cases, vital information more than makes up for it. If you're a TD or Director that's just inherited a house with a fly loft, you must read this book. It sounds melodramatic, but it's true--lives may depend on it.

The Lighting Art

The Aesthetics of Stage Lighting Design

Richard H. Palmer

Oddly, this is both the most "artistic" and most technical of the books. It deals both with lighting from an aesthetic/design unity point of view and with the science of achieving the effects. You will get everything in this book from discussions (and pictures) of classicical lighting designs through color psychology, optics, and how visual physiology interacts with color physics to actually determine what the audience will perceive in different situations. I wouldn't recommend this as a first book on lighting but more as a reference that you will find yourself going back to to solve problems.

Light on the Subject

Stage Lighting for Directors and Actors and the Rest of Us

David Hays

This is a great book for designers to read and an even greater one for designers to give to other participants in the process of making theatre. Hays goes into next to no detail on the technique of lighting but rather beautifully explains what lighting can and should do in the theatre. He provides the tools needed to talk intelegently about lighting. The book also has wonderful excerpts from all sorts of literary sources describing different qualities of and experiences with light.