LIghting Design

What are the 3 main types of lighting?

• General Lighting

• Accent Lighting

• Fluorescent Light

• Task Lighting

Provides just enough light so that you can see everything in a room.

• Task Lighting

• Accent Lighting

• General Lighting

Provides more intense lighting than general lighting. Focuses light on the area where it is most needed – for instance, a desk lamp illuminating a desktop.

• Task Lighting

• General Lighting

• Accent Lighting

Lighting aimed directly at a specific object to create a dramatic effect.

• General Lighting

• Accent Lighting

• Task Lighting

Sustainable lighting design can be achieved by (select all the relevant answers):

• Lighting Design and planning deliver a lighting scheme that will excel in the highest energy standards and achieve lighting infrastructure that is compliant with demanding legislation.

• Controlling the direction and intensity of light and eliminating glare can have a huge impact on the comfort of the users of the space.

• Use fuel energy resources such as diesel produce cleaner energy

• Integrate natural lighting: Your design scheme can benefit massively from the careful incorporation of daylight.

• Understand & Uncover New Technologies: How to cope with the fast changing technology in lighting industry.

What are the functions of lighting?

• Helps us understand the psyche of the characters.

• Creates a pretty environment.

• Helps the actors articulate their words.

• Creates mood, model the stage and tells the audience where to focus at specific times.

In what ways can a lighting designer control the quality of lighting?

• Direction

• Intensity

• Color

• Movement

• All of the above

Lighting Designer tries to recreate lighting that the audience is familiar with.

• True

• False

Based on the lighting design in the pictures below, which of the plays can you say is set in the night time?

• 
• 
• 
• 

What is key light?

• The brightest source of light

• The dimmest source of light

• The house lights

• A torchlight on a keychain used by the stagehands