Lighting Designer

Caroline Chao is a lighting designer. She helps put up a production associated with lighting. Her role is to take care if all the details and it involves co-ordinatiing the schedule with the production manager. She has to keep track of the que lists and follow spots. There's a great degree of trust between the designer and associate, to be able to understand notes and meet the idea of the design with the lighting, how they're meant to look, what colours and the focus during a show. When deciding what should be done with the lights the designer stands infront of the stage and inspects it they do this since most designers have a design eye.One advantage of being a lighting designer is that once you have design eyes you can easily realize where the producer is going with this. In order for her to create what the producers want she has to attend meetings to sort out the proess, what needs to be seen and done. The lights need to be hit in a specific manner. She'll have draft paper to work out the lighting design. The lighting of a show is very colourful and reflects how it looks like in comic books. When someone flies during a show, she has to keep one of the spot lights on them. I think it's very challenging how they have ti change lighting for every new produciton. I think lighting is one of the most important aspects in a show since it draws the audience attention, it makes them feel part of it. It's an ongoing process thoughout a show. It makes their chatacters come to life and more realistic. Overall lighting is fantastic, you can be creative and so much with it.