Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Book Marks: Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations On The Art, Craft And Life
Live Design Online: "Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life" provides an insight into the life of a professional lighting designer, through interviews with lighting designers at different stages of their careers plus a group interview with the designer and lighting team of the hit musical Billy Elliot.
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I feel like this is such a cool concept and I really want to know if there’s a sound designer version of this. Oftentimes in the entertainment industry, everyone feels super cliquey and isolated. This article is such a breath of fresh air for me and super reassuring that at the top level of theater, there are still people that are welcoming and willing to help others reach that level of success. I wonder if people have ever found a common thread between everyone in theater or if everyone’s story is completely different. This is such a cool article and now, I really want to get the book to see what everyone’s experiences were/are and if they have any advice that I can apply to my life. I really appreciate the fact that they also give practical advice about how hard making a living out of theatre can be and how to navigate that.
Very often in individual productions, I think that our creativity can be limited just by nature of the fact that there is typically one person at the helm of making design or technical choices to produce a desired effect. Not limited in terms of creating an appropriate or ‘good’ effect on some subjective level, but instead limited in terms of achieving what is most salient for a particular effect, or what is most effective and efficient to achieve a particular effect. Having more conversations with others within our respective fields and taking our work more into question as it does in this book through the interviews is an essential component to our own improvement in our respective industries and encourages collaboration to improve our fields as a whole. While this likely doesn’t mean we need to increase the sizes of teams in order to improve our ideas (as the marginal benefit likely doesn’t outweigh the actual cost of larger teams), it does demonstrate the importance of collaboration and continual learning throughout our time using this technology and being involved in theater.
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