Lights up!

Teacher notes

Stage lighting design basics with Lincoln Gidney

Student drama and VET entertainment resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 9 to 12 drama and Years 11 and 12 VET entertainment

What will your students learn?

Your students will:

learn the fundamentals of lighting design
explore how to apply the fundamentals of lighting design to convey meaning
apply knowledge and understanding to design their own lighting.

Syllabus outcomes

Drama 7-10 Syllabus

5.2.2: selects and uses performance spaces, theatre conventions and production elements appropriate to purpose and audience.
5.2.3: employs a variety of dramatic forms, performance styles, dramatic techniques, theatrical conventions and technologies to create dramatic meaning.

Drama Stage 6 Syllabus

P1.4: understands, manages and manipulates theatrical elements and elements of production, using them perceptively and creatively.
P2.2: understands the contributions to a production of the playwright, director, dramaturg, designers, front-of-house staff, technical staff and producers.
H1.7: demonstrates skills in using the elements of production.

Entertainment Industry Curriculum Framework Stage 6 Syllabus

Lighting

The student describes the relationship between lighting and other technical and creative aspects of live performances and events.

Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students

Collection of student work

Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.
Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

Offline access

Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.

Lights up! - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docx

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Third-party content attributions

Drama 7-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2003, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.
Drama Stage 6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2009, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.
Entertainment Industry Curriculum Framework Stage 6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2020, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.

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