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The Right Light: Interviews with Contemporary Lighting Designers
Nick Moran
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Description for The Right Light: Interviews with Contemporary Lighting Designers
Paperback. Based on a series of interviews with some of the UK's leading theatre lighting designers, this book provides an insight into the creative process of lighting the stage. How do lighting designers decide what is the 'right light' for each moment of a production? What informs their choices? How do these decisions differ from opera to dance to drama? Num Pages: 200 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
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 nineteen 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 ... Read more
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 nineteen 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
265g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137334770
SKU
V9781137334770
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Ref
99-40
About Nick Moran
Nick Moran is Senior Lecturer in Lighting Design at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. He is a lighting designer as well as an academic, and his work as lighting designer on English National Opera's production of The Masked Ball formed part of the Collaborators exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2007/2008. He is the author of ... Read more
Reviews for The Right Light: Interviews with Contemporary Lighting Designers
'A detailed and inspirational work. This book gives the opportunity to glimpse the inner workings of lighting designers' minds, methods and best practice on an intimate level.' - Allen Hahn, Indiana University Bloomington, USA 'A fascinating insight into the thinking of today's top British lighting designers. I can attest to there being no thrill like being behind the production desk ... Read more