Protected: Professional Workshop in Lighting Design

Studio School of Design announces an upcoming intensive workshop in professional lighting design to be offered in person [MONTH, date range, 2024]. This workshop will be facilitated by industry leaders from Broadway, Concerts, Television and Architectural Consulting. Topics to be covered include: Actionable Lighting Design Skills, Techniques and Knowledge, Wellness and Personal Care within a challenging profession, and Career Guidance. This five-day workshop will increase your proficiencies in professional networking & lighting design professional practice to help give participants access to a bigger set of career options.

This workshop is intended to help everyone who is seeking to increase their skills, effectiveness and knowledge base as a working professional in entertainment lighting.

Price: $990 Early Bird Discount, tuition price to increase on March 1, 2024
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Sample Schedule Days (subject to change, please check back for further developments):

Day 1

9:00-9:30 Meetup & Welcome

9:30 – 10:00 Opening Activity: Freethinking with Music

10:00 – 10:30 Introduction to the workshop, activities and outcomes

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:30 Session 1: Developing your Design Ideas with practitioners from Broadway

11:30 – 12:30 Breakout Sessions on Design Idea Development

12:30-1:30 Featured Manufacturer’s Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 Session 2: The philosophies of Lighting Console Software Architecture: underlying visions of software to solve specific problems.

2:00 – 3:00 Breakout Hands-on Sessions on Various Consoles: Mosaic, ETC EOS, GrandMA, WholeHog

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:00 Session 3: Self-Care in a difficult field

4:00 – 4:30 Breakout Discussions on creating a more sustainable industry.

4:30 – 5:00 Return to group for report-out from Breakout Groups.

Day 2

9:00 – 9:15  Meetup & Welcome

9:15 – 9:45  Session 4: Building and Maintaining a professional Social Media Presence

9:45 – 11:00 Breakout Sessions, working on your own social media platforms

11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 11:45 Session 5: Working in a 3D CAD Environment for faster and more effective design development

11:45 – 12:30 Breakout Sessions in Vectorworks 3d, AutoCAD, Revit

12:30 – 1:30 Featured Manufacturer’s Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Session 6: What is Light: Movement & Cueing

2:00 – 3:00  Session 7: Techniques for designing for music

3:15 – 4:15 Breakout Sessions in Lighting for Music

4:15 – 5:00 Return to group for report-out from Breakout Groups.

Day 3

9:00 – 9:15  Meetup & Welcome

9:15 – 10:15  Session 8:  Effective use of Color in a lighting design

10:15 -10:30  Break

10:30 – 11:30 Session 9: Show Control – automating cues through SMPTE, OSC and MIDI

11:30 – 12:00  Breakout Sessions in Hands on Show Control

12:00 – 12:30  Lunch

12:30 – 1:00  Transport to Theater

1:00 – 1:30  Preshow talk with the Show Programmer

1:30 – 3:45  See a professsional Show

3:45 – 4:15  Post Show Talk with the Lighting Designer

4:15 – 5:00 Transport back to Workshop space, Wrap up

Day 4

9:00 – 9:15  Meetup & Welcome

9:15 – 10:15  Session 10: Self-Care in a difficult field

10:15 -10:30  Break

10:30 – 11:15  Session 13:Building a more diverse and more equitable field

11:15 – 12:00 Breakout Discussions to discuss questions of diversity and equity in our industry

12:00 – 1:00 Featured Manufacturer’s Sponsored Lunch

1:00 – 1:45 Session 12:  Working with light when cameras are capturing your live event

1:45 – 2:30 Breakout Sessions: Light and Camera hands on experience.

2:30 – 2:45  Break

2:45 – 3:45 Session 11: Negotiating Skills

3:45 – 4:30  Breakout Groups in Negotiating

4:30 – 5:00 Return to group for report-out from Breakout Groups.

Day 5

9:00 – 9:15  Meetup & Welcome

9:15 – 10:00 Session 14: Rendering your Lighting Ideas

10:00 – 11:00  Session 15: Previsualization Software Skills

11:30 – 11:45 Break

11:45 – 1:00 Breakout Groups working with Pre-visualization Software/Hardware

1:00 – 2:00  Sponsored Manufacturer Lunch

2:00 – 3:00  Best Business Practices in Entertainment lighting.

3:00 – 3:15 Break

3:00 – 4:00  Starting a successful design firm

4:00 – 4:30 Discussion: Reflection on the Workshop, Wrap up

4:30 – 6:00  Closing Reception

 

Intended Outcomes from this workshop:

We have built this workshop around the goals that the participants will gain:

  • An understanding of the skills needed for working in the lighting design field
  • A template for current professional practice
  • Specific training in some of the above identified skills including: 3-d CAD, Software based color manipulation, Pre-visualization tools, professional programming tips and tricks
  • Learning around non-skill-based, but essential subjects including: the philosophy of lighting storytelling, color and style, an understanding of all the many careers that use these skills.

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