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Final Lighting Design

After developing many lighting plans and attending rehearsals and then amending the lighting plan, I have developed a final lighting plan that will be used during the production week. It is a hand draw plan on an A0 sized paper using the scale 1:25, using a lighting stencil. On this plan I have to put all the required information a lighting crew may need. For example, channel numbers, DMX addresses and any trim heights that maybe needed. I can also put on any other notes like certain modes automated lights may nee and any notes on focusing that could be done during the rigging of the fixtures. 

Production Meeting Minutes NO.4

Spring Awakening

Production Meeting #4

Minutes

Wednesday 7^th May, 11:30 – 12:00 PA135

To: L4 & L5 SMTT

Cc: Carly Woodhouse

Present: Hannah, Adam, Alisienne, Simon, Vicki, Sam, Nicky, Matthew, Adele, Jessica, Sally, Carly, Kristy, Chris

Apologies: Darren, Nick, Charlie, Lucy, Bryony, Jamie, David, Marc

1.     Action Points

·       Alisienne – The leaves and rose petals have been made flame retardant, we are getting 10 chairs from Tynemouth Priory to be collected Thursday Morning by Darren.

·       Marc – House Music and Sound effects? – Still don’t know if these have been sourced, have asked Nicky and Simon to assist Marc with this task. The sound stage plan has been made for Nicky to implement this week.

·       Hannah – The trap door is being built on Thursday 8^th May.

·       Adam – has added the changes to the stage plan in 206.

2.     Rehearsal update

·       There are 2 full run throughs on Thursday 8^th May

·       The SD9 is no longer needed in rehearsals on Friday

·       Friday rehearsal will be running the big numbers

3.     Set / Props/ Sound

·       There is definitely no chalking on the stage

·       The balcony seats are not to be taken out

·       The band has been put back into the auditorium in the space of AA and BB and is to be dressed around using flats

·       Trees need to be bought for scenery

·       Need an abortion sign to hang over the fire exit sign SL for Act 2, this has been authorised by Kristy.

·       In the Interval the leaves need to be cleared from the tunnels, the piano to be removed from stage and the abortion sign needs to be hung

4.     Lights

·       The order for the lighting gels has been sent

·       Need to order some CP62’s as there are no spare lamps left in the store

5.     FOH

·       Now that the band has moved it was discussed that we sell front rows of the auditorium as restricted views with £2 off. Due to further discussions with Nick and Kristy it has been decided that this is not necessary due to the stage being raised and row A being slightly raised from the floor where the band is.  

6.     Schedule

·       The fire watchers are Adam, Alisienne, Sam and Bryony

7.     Schedule Next Meeting

·       Show week next week

Action Points

What /When/ Who?                                                                                                 

Alisienne – Check the chairs when Darren brings them to college, to look into purchasing trees; show Carly your research and prices before purchasing possibly ask horticulture to see if they have anything we can use

Adam – to assist Alisienne with the trees

Marc/ Simon/ Nicky – to source house music and sound effects for Carly to listen too before the sound plot on Tuesday 13^th

Marc – Carly and Chris need to hear the announcements that have been recorded before the sound plot on Tuesday 13^th

David – Chase up the order for the CP 62’s so that we have spares for the show week

Simon – to build the abortion sign frame for Monday 12^th

MT Students – To decorate and paint the sign

LX Schedule

As well as a lighting plan, I also need to develop a lighting schedule. This document is mainly for the lighting designer and the board op. The schedule includes every fixture that is being used on the plan and its position on the plan. It will have DMX address for each automated light plus the channels of each fixture which will be patched into the desk. During the production week, lighting crew will write down the dimmer address of each fixture on this document to help the lighting operator to patch the desk. This document can also include notes like accessories, focus notes, weights of each fixture to help with bar weight plus the power that each fixture pulls to ensure there is enough power in the venue to supply the lighting design. To help me develop this schedule I looked at 'Performance Lighting Design' by Nick Moran (2007) which includes some lighting schedules developed by other lighting designers in the industry. From looking at this book I was able to develop a lighting schedule with elements from the patching sheets that were included in this book, making a lighting schedule that fitted me and way of working. 

Gels, Colour, Lists

After attending several rehearsals over the easter holidays and a few after returning to college, I felt i had a good enough of an idea on what colours i would need for the production. However there was a wide range of colours to choose from as there was more than one red for example. This lead me to look on the Lee filter website to choose my colours. On this website Lee gives you a brief description of the colour and its uses as well as other lighting designers that may of used them on their productions. 

From looking at their website I was able to create a wish list of colour I felt would go with the productions style and the creatives ideas. As well as colour that coordinated with each other. This list I was able to save as a PDF which I printed off to show the lead creative. After this meeting I was able to choose the colours that I wanted in the lighting rig and was able to then order them depending on quantity.