Week 1
Types of Lights: Rig and de-Rig
Today at the theatre we had watched a 4 minute Youtube video regarding safety when working at sets. Numerous different safety requirements were discussed for example having to tie hair back, taking off jewelry, and making sure cables and wires are stuck to the ground and aren't loose (to avoid tripping over). It also discussed other safety requirements which needed to be met for example not jumping from one level to another or not running around because you could run into objects or people. After watching the Youtube video we had to then tell the teacher what we remembered of the video and then we proceeded onto setting up the lights.
The teacher had asked some of us to offer to demonstrate how to set up the lights which I had offered to do. We had to wear special gloves which are insulating gloves so that electricity cannot pass through them and shock the user. I had to set up the profile light which was fairly heavy there was 2 steps which I had learnt:
1. pick it up and make sure the G clamp is tightly connecting the pole and the light
2. Ensure the safety chain is the connecting the light to the pole it is clamped onto
Then this had to be re-done and you can put it back to wherever you found it.
In the end of the lesson we went to the top platform and was briefly shown some of the gadgets and the lights that will be used up there.
Week 2
Lighting focus
I wasn't there last week but so I need to catch up
Week 3
This lesson we had been given sheets of A4 paper and having the paper vertically we had to draw a rectangle with 3 lines going through it and then drawing lights on to each of those 3 lines trying to imagine each light is there to take up a particular amount of space so that no shadows were present. After this we were given by hand a set up of a theatre and the lines at which the lights would be placed and then we had to draw 12 lights and arrows pointing to where to a space they would be lighting up making sure we were covering all the space. Then some people got up and we did a demonstration of where the lights should be placed if you want them to point at people without any dark spots present, and we had to solve problems that Becca had on purpose created for us to solve. After this we watched some youtube videos of last years Tech theatre certficiate students and their final show. Every year Becca gives the group of students a specific song to make a light show for and this year we have to work on Let Down The Sunshine. The lesson ended in us getting put into our groups of 4's and just discussing several ideas for our final pieces. I contributed the ideas of changing the lighting with each syllable or word sang in the song, and also to change the colours shown during the song indicating maybe an emotion that is portrayed in certain parts of the song. We gave all this to Becca and blogged.
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