Performance Lighting Design: How to Light for the Stage, Concerts and Live Events
Now fully revised, this second edition of Nick Moran’s Performance Lighting Design has been brought up to date to consider advances made in the technology used for lighting design for live performance. Alongside this, Moran introduces new concepts and ways of working; includes a section on analysing the finished design; and discusses recent research into contemporary lighting practice, addressing emerging trends, particularly for drama. Combining practical information with aesthetic considerations, Performance Lighting Design is the ideal book for students and practitioners of stage lighting working on the contemporary stage.
Now fully revised, this second edition of Nick Moran’s Performance Lighting Design has been brought up to date to consider advances made in the technology used for lighting design for live performance. Alongside this, Moran introduces new concepts and ways of working; includes a section on analysing the finished design; and discusses recent research into contemporary lighting practice, addressing emerging trends, particularly for drama. Combining practical information with aesthetic considerations, Performance Lighting Design is the ideal book for students and practitioners of stage lighting working on the contemporary stage.
Performance Lighting Design 2nd Edition Published 2019 £29.69 using this link
The Right Light: Interviews with Contemporary Lighting Designers
How do theatre lighting designers decide what is ‘the right light’ for each moment of a production? What informs their choices? Why does the audience respond more strongly when the lighting feels ‘right’?
By interviewing 19 prominent lighting designers and weaving their insights through his own narrative, Nick Moran aims to answer such questions. This book considers practice across different types of theatre, including opera, dance, musicals and drama. Rather than being a technical manual, it allows lighting designers to contribute contrasting and complementary ideas about how to approach lighting design. Moran argues that the best stage lighting is made with emotion, passion and soul, by creative artists willing to take risks.
Contributions from: Neil Austin – Lucy Carter – Jon Clark – Natasha Chivers – Paule Constable – James Farncombe – Rick Fisher – Mark Henderson – David Howe – Michael Hulls – Mark Jonathan – Peter Mumford – Ben Ormerod – Bruno Poet – Paul Pyant – Nick Richings – Johanna Town – Hugh Vanstone – Katharine Williams.
The Right Light, Interviews with Contemporary Lighting Designers Published 2016 £25.19 using this link
Electric Shadows
Electric Shadows aims to guide anyone new to using video on stage through the many simple and difficult technical and aesthetic choices and decisions they make in taking their design from outline idea through to realisation.
The main body of the book takes the reader through the process of deciding what content will be projected onto what screen or screens to make the best overall production design.
The book will help you make electric shadows that capture the attention of your audience, to help you tell your stories in just the way you want.
Electric Shadows – An Introduction to Using Video and Projection on Stage
Published in 2013, £23.95 using this link