GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department
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GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Section B – Lighting Workshop Page Number Page Page of Content Research & Planning Development Skills aspects related Work Evaluation Page 1 Front Cover Page 2 First Audit Sheet ü ü Page 3 Flood Lantern ü ü Page 3 Fresnel Lantern ü ü Page 3 Profile Lantern ü ü Page 4 Lantern Question and Answer Page ü ü Page 5 Gobos and Gels ü ü Page 6 Lighting System Diagram ü ü Page 7 Rig Plan ü ü ü Page 8 Performance Review ü Page 9 Final Evaluation ü ü Page 10 Witness Statement Sheet ü ü Page 11 Second Audit Sheet ü ü Page 1: Front Cover On this page you need to ensure that you have the following information: The title: Lighting Workshop Your name: [Whatever it is] Then leave a gap and write: Course name: GCSE Performing Arts (Single Award) Your school: Toot Hill School Your centre number: 28308 Try to make your title page look professional in it’s layout and style. 1 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Page 2: Audit Sheet [Skills Development and Evaluation] You need to complete an acting audit sheet which is available on this page of the booklet. It is designed to record what you know at the start of the course. Cut it out, mount it on a sheet of coloured paper or card and include it on page 2 of your portfolio. Use the table below to record your experience and understanding of the following areas… Knowledge/skill Used Evidence Rig Fresnel Profile Flood Ladder Gobo Gel Barndoors Shutters Wash Spot (hard/soft) Cue Plot Cue Sheet Health and safety Lighting board Dimmer pack DMX Patch board Rigging 2 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Types of Theatre Lanterns (info only) The next two pages outline the 3 main types of lanterns you will be using in Toot Hill Theatre and in smaller venues on tour. This section is for information only. Use the advice on the next few pages to complete this coursework section. Flood Lantern Information This is the simplest type of lantern, consisting of a halogen lamp and a reflector in a box, with no lens. The reflector concentrates the light towards the opening in the box. There is no control over the focussing of a flood, other than its general direction. Bulb Flood How it spreads light Symbol for flood on a lighting plan Fresnel Lantern Information The Fresnel (pronounced "Frennel") is a soft-edged spotlight with more control over beam angle than floods, but less control than profiles. The lens is a series of stepped concentric circles on the front and pebbled on the back and is named after its French Bulb and Lenses inventor, Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827). He developed the lens for French lighthouses so that they could be seen further out to sea and could achieve a longer focal length with a lot less glass than a standard plano-convex lens. It was first used in stage lighting in the late 1920s. The size of the beam can be adjusted by moving the lamp and reflector closer to or farther from the lens, either by a screw mechanism or a simple slide. The beam can be shaped by the Fresnel with barn doors four barn doors attached to the front of the lantern. Symbol for a Fresnel on a lighting plan Fresnel "flooded" Fresnel "spotted down" 3 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Profile Lantern Information Profile lanterns produce clearly defined spots of light and are the most focussable and versatile of the lanterns. They have a lens (some have two lenses), a lamp and a reflector, and they also have shutters and a Bulb and Lenses gate. Profiles get their name from their ability to project the shape of anything placed in the gate of the lantern between the lamp and the lens. These shapes may be formed by the shutters, or they may be cut out of thin metal (a "gobo" - see diagram right). Profiles with two lenses (zoom profiles) are best for projecting gobos and other shapes, as the size and sharpness of the beam is fully adjustable throughout the beam angle range of the lantern. Profile A followspot is a special type of profile lantern with additional controls, extra handles, sights, built-in colour changer and iris, and is usually of much higher power. Symbol for a profile on a lighting plan With the lenses far apart, the beam is narrow With the lenses close together, the beam is wider. 4 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Page 3: Flood Lantern [Skills development & Work Related Aspects] Now you need to complete the following sections which then need to be redone in neat in your portfolios. Use this sheet to record information that you will need to include in your coursework. Remember to include the heading as well. Draw a Flood Lantern and label the diagram: Describe what effects a Flood Lantern Describe your experience using a Flood might create on stage: Lantern and explain why you chose it. 5 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Page 3: Fresnel Lantern [Skills development & Work Related Aspects] Use this sheet to record information that you will need to include in your coursework. Remember to include the heading as well. Draw a Fresnel Lantern and label the diagram: What effects can you create with a Describe your experience of using a Fresnel lantern? Explain and draw Fresnel Lantern and explain why you them: chose it: Soft edged spot Spot size Round or square spot 6 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Page 3: Profile Lantern (Skills development & Work Related Aspects) Use this sheet to record information that you will need to include in your coursework. Remember to include the heading as well. Draw and label a Profile Lantern: Explain what effects can be created by Describe an occasion where you have using a Profile Lantern. List and draw used a Profile Lantern and explain why them: you chose it: Soft edged spot Hard edged spot Projected image or pattern Round or square spot 7 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Page 4: Lantern Q & A Page (Skills development & Work Related Aspects) Using the information you have been given during the workshop answer the questions below in your portfolio using the heading above. Questions What is a 1K Fresnel and why would you use one? Draw a set of Barn Doors, explain what lantern they are used with and what effect they create. Draw a Shutter, explain what lantern they are used with and what effect they create. Draw and label the symbols used for three main lanterns on a rig plan Describe how lights might be rigged and focused in a theatre 8 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Gobos and Gels (info only) This section covers Gobos and Gels and provides you with the information you need to complete pages 24 and 25. This section is for information only. Gobos Gobos are small metallic sheets that have a picture, image of pattern cut into them. They are placed in a Gobo Holder and inserted into the middle section of a PROFILE lantern (see diagram) and once the lantern is focused it will project the image of the Gobo Profile Lantern Profiles get their name because they create the ‘profile’ of the image on the Gobo. It is possible to make your own Gobo if a commercial one is not available by using the metal from a drink can and cutting an image into it (really, it does work!) Below is a selection of Gobos commercially Gobo inserted in front of bulb available 9 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Gels Gels are coloured sheets of transparent plastic that ate placed in Gel Holders and poisoned at the front of a lantern. Profile, Fresnel and Flood lanterns all accept Gels. Profile and Fresnel lanterns use the same type of holder. Floods require a larger Gel area and therefore require a different holder. Gels and Gobos can be used together to enhance the effect of the Gobo Fresnel Gels are used to create atmosphere on stage through the use of colour and tone. It is essential that you use a colour suitable for the events or emotions being conveyed on the stage Colour communicates meaning. Complete the following chart relating colours to emotions Profile Emotion Colour Situation Colour Envy Green Summer Yellow Flood Love Winter Peace Spring Hate Autumn War Birth Lust Death Greed Storm Passion Morning Pain Dusk Energy Town Infinity Country Jealousy Desert Death Joy 10 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Page 5: Gobos [Skills development & Work Related Aspects] Use this sheet to record information that you will need to include in your coursework. Remember to include the heading as well. Draw an example of commercial Gobo: Gobos What is a Gobo? What is a Gobo Holder and what does it look like? Where do you place it in a Profile lantern? What effect does it create? Design your own Gobo and explain what you would use it for: 11 | Page GCSE Applied Performing Arts Toot Hill School Drama Department Page 5: Gels [Skills development & Work Related Aspects] Use this sheet to record information that you will need to include in your coursework. Remember to include the heading as well.