$90.49
Author: Shelley Steven Louis
Brand: Routledge
Edition: 3
Number Of Pages: 592
Details: Product Description
In the first edition of A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Steve Shelley cracked open his production book and showed how to prepare a lighting design and create the paperwork needed to mount a production.
In the second edition, he pulled back the curtain and showed the methods and processes that go on before the light plot is finalized and ready to go to into the shop, even dealing with cutting the plot in half.
In this third edition, Shelley throws the door wide open and shows step-by-step how to construct every lighting system in the Hokey light plot. Combining his diacritical analysis, killer drafting, and analytic use of the Slinky Method and Slinky Calculations, he presents the Periodic Table of Fundamental Lighting Systems and shows the basic methods used to create multi-instrument lighting systems.
Highlights include:
* Over 100 new topics, including analysis and application of the three categories of collaboration; detailed examinations of production meetings, approaching production schedules and budgets; one-on-one meetings and checklists with management and the creative team.
* Over 50 new illustrations, including Shelley’s Periodic Table of Fundamental Lighting Systems — groundplans, sections, and front elevations that illustrate basic system wash configurations for each direction of light.
* Analysis, calculation, examples, and step-by-step technical construction of each lighting system in the Hokey light plot.
* Detailed examination of techniques used to light backdrops, scrims, and translucencies in the scenic stack.
* Explanation of a manufacturer’s cut sheet, and how to apply basic formulas to determine beam size, footcandle, and gel transmission for lighting instruments.
* Updated discussion of the process for pre-programming computer lighting consoles prior to the load-in.
* Comprehensive overview of archiving paperwork and softcopy for a production.
Review
‘Any student or professional seeking to work as a lighting designer in theater or dance should read this book. I’ve been using this book since the first edition, as it’s a wonderful tool for education. This book goes into the details behind the creation of a lighting design. The knowledge you gain by studying this text will free you to create art with your lighting, instead of being caught up in the mundane tasks required to execute a design.’
Stephen Ellison, Lighting Systems Design Consultant
‘Steven L Shelley has done it again. After reading the second edition of “A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting” (the only one of its kind), I didn’t think there was anything else to say about technically creating a lighting design.
Mr. Shelley has done it! He found more information and better and clearer ways to communicate his ideas. The added graphics help the reader to understand the writing, and they alone are worth the price of the book. He’s gone into more depth — when the reader is finished, they have a greater and clearer understanding of the process involved in creating a lighting design.
They’ll also have an easier time working through the process than anyone did before this book was written.
The time Shelley spends with his own stories helps the reader understand why things are done a certain way. They make the reader understand he’s a professional and not just someone who is writing a textbook for tenure.
Overall, the third edition of “A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting” is a book that anyone interested in the process of lighting design must have on their bookshelf.’
David Griffith, Educator and professional lighting designer
‘…the book presents further value in the latest incarnation. However, be warned…the sheer volume of professional gold within is more than one person can shovel in a sitting…This book could be subtitled “Everything Mr Shelley has ever experienced and thought about lighting in his long and illustrious career.”…the whole book is an avalanche of practical advice, notes, tips, pro tips, d
Release Date: 25-10-2013
Package Dimensions: 30x277x1588
