Stage lighting design requirements

2018-07-31

1.Stage lighting should have four basic elements: visual, realistic, aesthetic, and performance.

2. The light has four controllable properties: brightness, color, distribution, and movement (referring to changes in lighting).

3. Use these attributes of lighting to achieve four purposes:clarity, combination, shape display, atmosphere.

4. The stage lighting design should fully consider the scope of the activity area, but also the design of the logical principle that I need to use. 

Generally speaking, the performance area should have an area of ​​12 meters to 16 meters and a width of 10 meters to 12 meters to make the actors feel: the performance is free; the lighting design should meet the large area of ​​light, avoid the blind spots, and the lighting layout is for the actors. And the audience is a language, the occurrence of the plot and the emotional changes can be expressed by the light.

Lighting designers should make full use of the vocabulary of lighting to express emotional meaning to actors and audiences, and produce a silent stage effect in the hearts of the audience. By adjusting the light angle and color, you can change the visual effect of the person, make the thin person fat, make the fat child thin, make the dwarf become a tall child, and make the child become a dwarf. To give the audience a beautiful and beautiful artistic enjoyment, this important task is done well, badly, and directly related to the lighting and color accuracy.


Light color is the basis of the stage art performance space modeling. The light color shaping effect can not only emphasize the performance of the characters, the time of the event, the season and the atmosphere of the environment, but also the light and dark of the light color can enhance the performance of the virtual and the real, and contribute to the emotion. Infection, causing people's associations. If there is no light color effect, it can be said that the stage performance will be eclipsed.


Successful lighting performance always expresses the environment and highlights people with its unique light and dark means, especially the Jingtuo people. For example, the treatment of lightning effects directly affects the performance of the show. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully understand the director's tips, to conceptualize the various lightning images in the play, as well as the changes in brightness and darkness, to match the plot and to perform the performance. deal with.


To this end, on the one hand, the space is expressed by means of stage lighting, that is, to help express the infinite space required for the script in a limited stage space; on the other hand, with the progress of the theatrical performance, in the continuation of time, the use of the light The light and dark fluctuations, the light ratio of the picture, the color change (contrast before and after the color) and the change of the performance area (light area) and other means to enhance the (flowing) picture space effect of the theatrical performance, the change in the field of the light. These means of expression can be called the stage lighting rhythm processing.