Introduction

This module is to produce and show the development process of lighting pre - production. The show that I will be lighting for my summative lighting design is 'Spring Awakening' which is going to be performed by students ranging from the ages of 18 - 21 over 6 performances. My initial thoughts on the production after learning that the play was set in the 19th century Germany, was that it would be difficult to create a realist lighting state that portrays the time the play is set in . The script indicates the lighting was the 'thing' after the acting itself. I therefore had to create the two different worlds the script created; the realistic 19th century Germany in the scripted play and the very idealistic modern world in the song world. This meant having to create a lighting design that initially had to support two totally different states. The lead creative on this production had her own initial thoughts on how she though the play should look. We both agreed that both states (song and scripted) should look totally different however there was some difference that we came across in our opinions for example she wanted there to be a smooth transition between these two states however I felt due to the genre of the music in the production (rock) I felt it would be better so have an almost snap between states indicating to the audience that these two states where in fact different as one was real life and one was an inner monologue the characters had. When productions meetings started it became clear that there would be some sort of raised staging on the actual stage. This meant the set design went from a flat 2D black box to a 3D area with different levels. Because of this I needed to show that the raised area was the performance would take place and the flat area around it was like a spectating area for those characters who weren't involved with the current scene.