Lighting Techniques

Four Fundamentals:

The Four Fundamentals Of Lighting:

Atmosphere
Illumination
Dimension
Selectivity
These are the key fundamental parts of lighting the definitions of each are:
Atmosphere- General lighting and presents, how it makes the audience feel, moods atmospheres. Time & Era.
Illumination- What needs to be lit.
Dimension- lighting angles Up lighting, Backlighting, front etc. Shape And Depth.
Selectivity- How much intensity where the audience's eyes go.

Examples of the four fundamentals:

Atmosphere

If the scene is sad the lighting reflects this with color and mood. It can make the audience feel sad if its dark and blues and cooler colors.

Illumination

This could be important because you could have the intensity higher on one fixture to draw the attention of the audience elsewhere hence this is particularly important.

Dimension

This could also draw the attention of the audience somewhere and adds shape to a performance. And, how things are lit like side lighting etc.

Selectivity

The intensity reflects on the illumination because you could draw their attention somewhere else on stage

Example of Illumination:

Example of dimension:

Example of selectivity:

Example of atmosphere:

Lighting Techniques:

Front Lighting - Front-lighting is typically used to create a general wash or to light a actor or a piece of scenery. This is typically done facing the stage on a 45 degree angle

Up-Lighting - this comes from bellow the actors and is typically used to light upwards at the actors you can also make it look like the actor is in a grassy field using a green filter to shine on the bottom of there face.

Side Lighting - Side-lighting is typically used for ballet, or dance shows as it extenuates the actor.

Backlighting - Backlighting is lighting the actor or something from behind usually creating a silhouette.

Downlighting - this can be done by using a lantern like a fresnel to provide downlighting on actors you can also create a more sinister and spooky effect if you use a profile and angle it to a person creating the effect of shadows. It is typically used on a 60 degree angle faceing downwards.

Foot-lighting - Foot-lighting is used to uplight and it comes from the front of the stage and from below typically using par 16s (Birdies)

Example of:

Side lighting

Example of:

Backlighting

Exsample of:

Frontlighting/Uplighting

Example of:

Downlighting