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The primary purpose of this booklet is to provide some assistance to those people nominated to carry out the designing, installation and operating of lighting for the stage.

It is also intended to provide insight and understanding for writers, directors, actors, set designers, producers and others; creating an appreciation of the various tasks, processes and problems involved in lighting a stage production.

This Site is divided into three sections -

• Tools
• Objectives
• Process

The Tools section deals with the lamps and equipment generally available to the lighting designer, and explores some of the basic uses.

The Objectives section discusses what it is that you want to achieve with the lighting - By clearly knowing your objectives and aplying the limitations and qualities of the tools at hand, some beginings of a design should become aparent. Its a bit like reverse engineering a vision.

The Process section is simply a list of the things I do to achieve my goal.

Please be aware that references to Health regulations and Electricity relate to parts of Australia - it may well be different in your area of the world.

If your having trouble viewing this site ? - please check that you have scripting languages and images turned on in the options or preferences menu of your browser.
Also check that your browser is capable of displaying Casscading Style Sheets [or CSS] - its not nessessary but it helps.

To navigate this site - you may use the hierarchic links at the very top of the page or the links contained within the page. Some of the links are 'rollover' images - use your mouse to discover them. Some links are static pictures and some are plain text. I have tried to make them self evident.
You can always use your browsers Back Button.

As stated above in the Intro. ,from this Page, the site divides into three sections -

• Tools
• Objectives
• Process

Each Section then divides into several Chapters of one or more pages each.

For further Help Email me parkhill@pinnacle.net.au