Ashland Center for Theatre Studies

Past Elective Course

Intelligent Use of Automated Lighting

A weeklong 3-credit graduate-level course designed for high school and community college theatre educators, covering the use of automated, multi-parameter lighting systems for theatrical productions:

• Learn the pros and cons of automated/multi-parameter lighting equipment
• Find out how a single automated light can take the place of other conventional inventory
• Discover how to use the different parameters of lighting (color mixing, templates, movement, beam, beam shaping, and intensity) together and separately for environmental and special effects
• Develop basic programming skills for automated lighting
• Discuss how to make the artistic choices necessary to tell the story of a play through lighting
• Get a glimpse into the future of lighting technology to share with your students
• Experiment with adapting a variety of lighting systems to build cues for a production
• Explore the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's lighting systems, booth and light shop
• Attend Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions of The Music Man and Equivocation
• Come away with tricks of the trade you can use in your school to get your console to work with automated lights

  Faculty

Chris Sackett, SOU Lighting and Sound Design Faculty

Michael Maag, OSF Lighting Dept Manager and Automated Lighting Programmer

Stuart Cotts, OSF Theatre Technology Engineer

Daily Schedule

Evening Schedule 2009