While we don’t get much into standard lighting positions in the class, once you start talking about breaking the stage up into areas of control and determining beam throws it’s good to know what positions are available in the average theatre. If you have a student who is going further along the path of a realized design, this appendix also provides information on labeling lighting units as they are drawn on the light plot.
Proscenium Spaces
Onstage
Electrics
Pipes (battens) running laterally across the stage, normally raised and lowered by a fly system: “A batten with a light on it becomes an electric.” Electrics are numbered from the proscenium toward the upstage; the 1st Electric ...
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