Theater audiences are regularly dazzled by the costumes and sets, stirred by a writer’s words, an actor’s sweat and tears, enthralled by a director’s coup de théâtre. They may be moved by a piece of music or moment of sound design.
Monday, October 29, 2018
What Do Broadway's Best Lighting Designers Actually Do?
Theater audiences are regularly dazzled by the costumes and sets, stirred by a writer’s words, an actor’s sweat and tears, enthralled by a director’s coup de théâtre. They may be moved by a piece of music or moment of sound design.
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One of the advantages of this program is that as a DP you get to experience all of the disciplines so you get a sense of what people do. I also took an intro to lighting design class to learn more about the aspects of design and it is very interesting. Getting to read the different perspectives of different lighting designers is extremely interesting. One example of this is how lighting designers think about the tony awards and how that plays that are more theatrical will be given a tony but certain shows just don’t need that. I think that each play will have different needs and the lighting designer is so important in given the mood and feeling of the play. Also seeing how each lighting designer approach’s the work is really interesting and reassuring that everyone does things differently and that its ok as long as the final product is up to standards.
It is interesting to hear different opinions and ways in which someone chooses to light a show. I agree with mostly everything that these designers say about lighting a show. I think that it’s true that good lighting design is subtle and generally not noticed by most people watching the show, but it should also complement the tone and mood of the show in a very effective and efficient way. One way that this is often done in smaller theatre is through the selection of gels and color (depending on whether or not you are using incandescent fixtures or LEDs). I always think that good lighting design is something that goes unnoticed, but bad lighting design, is very much more noticeable. It is important that good lighting design does go noticed however, or else we begin to encourage bad lighting design.
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