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Lighting Design Key Notes: Plan, Angle, and Source Illumination in Theater

Explore the pivotal concepts of lighting design in theater, including lighting angles, the McCandless Method, and the role of the Lighting Key. Learn about key figures such as Stanley McCandless and their influences on theatrical lighting design.

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Lighting Design Key Notes: Plan, Angle, and Source Illumination in Theater

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  1. Chapter 13The Lighting Key Notes taken from Michael Gillette’s Designing with Light

  2. Plan Angle Ground Plan View of an object

  3. Sectional Angle • Angle of intersection between the axis of the cone of light emitted by an instrument and the working height of a lighting area

  4. The Lighting Key • Indicates the plan angle (ground plan view) and color of the various sources that illuminate the image of light • Used to determine hanging positions

  5. theatre.harvard.edu/jobs/ld/key.html

  6. The Lighting Key Green Cool Cool

  7. theatre.harvard.edu/jobs/ld/key.html

  8. The Lighting Key Cool Cool

  9. theatre.harvard.edu/jobs/ld/key.html

  10. Three Source Lighting Key DS

  11. Four Source Lighting Key DS

  12. Five Source Lighting Key DS

  13. Lighting Angles • Majority of the world’s population receives sunlight over the course of the day at a sectional angle of 30-60 degrees

  14. Lighting Angles • McCandless Method • Actors fully front lit from at least two lights at a sectional angle of 45 Degrees and 90 Degrees from each other. One cool one warm. Optional top or fill light. Clarifies actors face. 90 Degrees 45 Degrees

  15. Lighting Angles • Stanley McCandless • 1897-1967 • Considered first theatrical lighting educator • Offered first Stage Lighting class in 1926 at Yale • Taught until 1964 • Students include Tharon Musser and Jean Rosenthal

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