Author Question: You are a Lighting Designer for Broadway, and after having designed for numerous shows, a Theatre ... (Read 29 times)

TFauchery · **on:** Aug 27, 2018

You are a Lighting Designer for Broadway, and after having designed for numerous shows, a Theatre Magazine wants to interview you on the process of being a Lighting Designer.

During the interview you cover how a designer goes through the preliminary work of designs and plots. The magazine reporter then asks you what the overall work process is like for lighting designers after the initial design phase. You are most likely to respond that the work process consists of?A. Brief, intense periods leading up to technical
rehearsals.
B. Moderate hours throughout the entire rehearsal
process.
C. Long work hours in the first initial weeks of
rehearsal.
D. None of these choices.

Question 2

You are in a program for Theatre Design at the local University and one of your courses is in Lighting Design.

On the first day of class, the Instructor is giving a historical overview of lighting and says that Lighting design was not important to theatre until theatre moved indoors. After class, you talk with the Instructor about the class and say that their comment on the history of lighting is?A. Correct, there were no lights used in theatre until it
moved indoors.
B. Incorrect, the Ancient Greek amphitheatres used oil
lamps for evening shows.
C. Correct, natural lighting was used in ancient,
indoor theatres, thus theatre never moved from the
outside.
D. Incorrect, during the time of Ancient Greek theatre,
the sun acted the lighting for the shows and was a
factor in how decisions were made.
Page Ref: Lighting
Designers: Materials,
Methods, and Processes
Skill: Applied
Topic: working with other
aspects of design