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LIGHTING CONTROL CONSOLE
The head end of a lighting system. The lighting control console sends information via control cables to dimmers or other devices instructing what they should do. Run by a light board operator, or as is common on a touring production by the lighting designer or lighting director, the lighting control console stores and executes all of the light cues for a performance. Common types of lighting consoles include the preset board and computer memory console.
LIGHTING DESIGNER
The person whose primary responsibility is the visual design of the lighting for a project or production. In theatrical terms the Lighting Designer is responsible for all aspects of the aesthetic design of the show.
LIGHTING DIRECTOR
Commonly used in the television and touring show industry to describe the person in charge of the lighting. Often the lighting director is the lighting designer for the production. In other cases the lighting director for a touring show is working from an original production design by the lighting designer.
LIGHTING INSTRUMENT
Often called a luminair, lighting unit, or lighting fixture, a lighting instrument is a device that is minimally comprised of a lamp, lamp housing, and some type of clamp to attach it to a mounting structure.
LIGHTING PLAN
A scale drawing detailing the exact location of each lantern used in a production and any other pertinent information (E.g. its dimmer number, focus position and color number). Often drawn from the theaters' groundplan.
LIGHTING PLOT
The process of recording information about each lighting state either onto paper or into the memory of a computerized lighting board for subsequent playback. (in USA, this term is used for a lighting plan and a lights session is when lighting states are set up.)
LIGHTING STATE
The format of lighting used at a particular point in the production; a lighting "picture". A lighting cue is given by the stage manager which initiates the change from one lighting state to the next.
LIGHTING STENCIL
Plastic stencil containing a range of scale symbols for current lighting equipment. Greatly facilitates the drawing of lighting plans.
LIGHTJOCKEY
Club / DJ control and visualization software by Martin.
LIMELIGHT
An obsolete source of intensely bright light, most recently used in followspots. Derived from a burning jet of oxygen and hydrogen impinging on a rotatable cylinder of lime.
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