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.
Mark Stanley, Clifton Taylor and Guests
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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