High School Student’s Summer Intensive Workshop in Light
We are offering a free IN PERSON course in design for current High School Students this summer from July 7 – 10, 2022 at the Chelsea Factory in Manhattan. Targeted to Rising Juniors and Seniors currently studying in High School, this four day course will include hands-on work with working professional lighting designers, a visit to see a New York show and tour backstage, and culminate in a public showing of the work accomplished during the workshop.
Course availability is strictly limited. Priority will be given to students studying in Title 1 Public High Schools in New York & New Jersey.
This course has been generously sponsored by:
- The Lighting Design Group
- John Chenault & Wendy Cohen
- Roger Gindi & Gregory Victor
- The Chelsea Factory
- and many other donors.
Please consider making a donation to Studio School of Design to help make programs like this possible.
Mark Stanley, Clifton Taylor and Guests
Tentative Schedule (subject to change, please check back for further developments):
Thursday, July 7, 2022:
9-10:30 Session 1 What is Light 1 – Angle
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12 Session 2 What is Light 2 – Color
12-1 Lunch
1-3 Session 3 What is Light 3 – Distribution
3-3:30 Free time Break
3:30-5 Session 4 What is Light 4 – Movement
Friday, July 8, 2022
9-10:30 Session 1 Telling a Story with Light
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12 Session 2 Telling a Story with Light
12-1 Lunch
1-3 Session 3
3-3:30 Free time Break
3:30-5 Session 4
Saturday, July 9, 2022
9-10:30 Session 1 Resume/Portfolio Building
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12 Session 2 So You want to be a lighting design? How and where?
12-1 Lunch/ preshow talk with designer
1-1:30 travel
3-5 Show Matinee and backstage tour
Sunday, July 10, 2022
9-10:30 Session 1 Building Your Lighting Story
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12 Session 2 Building Your Lighting Story
12-1 Lunch
1-3 Session 3 Building Your Lighting Story
3-3:30 Free time / Setup showing
3:30-5 Demo showing for family/friends and final 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.
