Academic Design/Drama Programs
:: Environmental Studies :: Architects
:: 2D/3D Foundation Arts :: Dance
and Musical Theater :: Color of Light Studies
Educational programs endeavor to teach their students the art
of lighting design. The student can draw light plots and pick
gel colors, they can sketch and explain what they expect the
design would look like - or at least one frozen moment of it.
Maybe they have a light lab to play in - but that's a far cry
from being able to see their design on a set, on model actors,
on costume fabrics, and light labs never have as many lighting
sources as you would have in a theatre. LIGHTBOX gives an educational
lighting program the opportunity to guarantee that its students
can see their designs realized in scale and in real time, as
well as giving the artistic team and teachers the ability to
judge and comment on the designs.
As for student-designed productions, LIGHTBOX is a scaled
model custom-designed to duplicate the dimensions and lighting
elements of your program's theatre. A student designer can
take the time before the tech period to figure out their design
concept without the pressures of tech. They can receive feedback
throughout the pre-production and rehearsal process and learn
how to collaborate with the director and the rest of the design
team.
Imagine how the learning curve can be improved and how creativity
can be fed. The goal is to produce better lighting designers,
and LIGHTBOX is a sure way to do that.
"The Lightbox project is a ground-breaking solution
to the limitation of only seeing results of designs full-scale.
It provides an opportunity for lighting designers and,
more importantly for us, lighting design students to demonstrate
their designs using the lightbox model."
- - James Clark, Syracuse
University Dept of Drama and producing director of
Syracuse Stage
"This a revolutionary source for the artists…Every
one of my students will be better lighting designers and
contributive members of the theater design process when
they are learning as part of this new method and using
this system. I strongly recommend this tool for our next
visual generation of artists."
- - Woo-Hyung Lee, designer & professor, University
of Seoul, Korea
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