Chapter 6

Creating the Preliminary Lighting Section and Light Plot

INTRODUCTION

This chapter examines the second phase in the construction of an approved preliminary lighting design. This phase starts by using the preliminary drawings as a structural framework to construct the lighting systems for Hokey.

After analyzing the core design documents, decisions are made about the colors, lighting systems, and control patterns that will be created for the light plot. The lighting systems are then sequentially constructed. As each system is added to the drawings, they transform the draftings into the preliminary lighting section and the preliminary light plot. As each lighting system is constructed and added to the light plot, the instrument spreadsheet ...

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