7-Day IN PERSON Workshop in Lighting Design for High School Students

We are offering a free IN-PERSON course in design for current High School Students this summer from July 26 – August 2,  in Manhattan. Targeted at Rising Juniors and Seniors currently studying in High School, this seven-day course will include hands-on work with working professional lighting designers, a visit to see a New York show and tour backstage, and culminating in a public showing of the work accomplished during the workshop.

Course availability is strictly limited. Applications are open to students studying at all High Schools. Priority will be given to students in US Title 1 Public High Schools.

Price: FREE, entrance by application only
Program Facilitator(s):

Mark Stanley, Clifton Taylor and Guests

More Information:

Sample Schedule Days (subject to change, please check back for further developments):

Wednesday, July 26

10:00-10:30 Meetup & Welcome

10:30 – 11:00 Musical Freethinking

11:00 – 11:30 Introduction to the workshop, activities and outcomes

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45 – 12:30 Session 1  What is Light 1 – Angle

12:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 Breakout Sessions on Angle, Discussion & Critique

2:30 – 3:00  Introduction to the Lighting Console

3:00 – 4:00 Session 2 What is Light 2 – Color

Thursday, July 27

10:00 – 10:15  Meetup & Welcome

10:15 – 12:00 Breakout Sessions on Color, Discussion & Critique

12:00 – 12:30  What is Light – Distribution

12:30 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00- 2:15 Breakout Sessions, Discussion & Critique

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:00 Telling a Story with Light: 1

3:00 – 4:00 Breakout Sessions

Friday, July 28

10:00 – 10:15  Meetup & Welcome

10:15 – 10:45 Telling a Story with Light: 2

10:15 -10:30  Break

10:30 – 11:00  Discussion and Critique

11:00 – 12:30  What is Light: Movement & Cueing

12:30 – 1:00  Lunch

1:00 – 2:45 Breakout Sessions, Discussion & Critique

2:45 – 3:00  Break

3:00 – 4:00 So You want to be a lighting designer?  How and where?

Saturday, July 29

10:00 – 10:15  Meetup & Welcome

10:15 – 11:15  Resume and Portfolio Building

11:15 – 11:30  Break

11:30 – 12:30  Building your Lighting Story – Lighting for Music

12:30 – 1:00  Lunch

1:00 – 1:30  Walk to Theater

1:30 – 2:00  Preshow talk

2:00 – 3:45  See a professsional Show

3:45 – 4:00 Walk back to Chelsea Factory

Sunday, July 29

 

Monday, July 31

TBD

Tuesday, August 1

TBD

Wednesday, August 2

10-10:15  Welcome and Recap Discussion

10:15 – 11:30  Breakout Sessions to work on Music Project

11:30 – 11:45 Break

11:45 – 12:30 Discussion and Critique

12:30 – 1:00  Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 Breakout Sessions to continue work on Music Project

2:30 – 2:45 Break

3:45 – 3:30 Discussion: Reflection on the Workshop, Wrap up

3:30 – 3:45  Doors open, Meet and Greet, Networking with Guests

3:45 – 4:45  Demo Showing for friends and family

4:45 – 5:15  Reception

Learning Outcomes from this workshop:

At the end of the program, students will be able to:

  • Use light and design to articulate the fundamental qualities of light in terms of intensity, angle, color, movement, distribution (form and rhythm).
  • Create their own lighting design and document it through the creation of a portfolio-ready short video that communicates a lighting ‘story’ around the themes of time-of-day and place, style, supporting scenic and costume elements, and consideration and use of abstract compositional elements.
  • Create their own starter professional resume with an understanding of the jobs that are present in the lighting industry
  • Articulate available pathways to a professional career through an understanding of educational and pre-professional opportunities currently available
  • Create a rudimentary light plot for inclusion in a portfolio that follows the form of a professional drawing package
  • Create a professionally formed “Magic Sheet” that explains the lighting systems present in the plot and the design.
  • Take Photographs of their design for inclusion in their portfolio.

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Program Facilitator(s)

Stacey Boggs

Facilitator.

Cat Cusick

Facilitator.

Emmanuel Delgado

Facilitator.
Lee Magadini

Lee Magadini

Senior Advisor for High School Programs
photograph of Mark Stanley

Mark Stanley

Director. President. Curriculum Designer. Facilitator.
photograph of Clifton Taylor

Clifton Taylor

Director. VP/Secretary. Curriculum Designer. Facilitator.
Kevin Lawson

Kevin Lawson

Guest Speaker.
photograph of Al Crawford

Al Crawford

Advisory Board. Guest Speaker.