Routledge Lighting for Televised Live Events: Making Your Live Production Look Great for the Eye and the Camera

Lighting for Televised Live Events unlocks the science, art, philosophies, and language of creating lighting for live entertainment and presentations that work for the television camera as well as for the live audience. The book explores how to retain the essence and excitement of a live production while assuring that the show looks its best on-camera for the millions of viewers that can only see it on their TV, computer, tablet, or mobile phone screen. Readers will learn how to adapt an existing stage show for the camera, as well as how to design live entertainment or events specifically for TV. Filled with real-life examples and illustrations, the book covers a wide range of topics, including: how exposure and color work for the camera; how angle, visual balance, and composition can make people and backgrounds look their best, while preserving theatricality; information on camera equipment, screens, and projectors, as well as the control room environments that are found on a professional shoot; the unique challenges of lighting for the IMAG video screens used at festivals and concerts. Lighting for Televised Live Events is aimed at lighting design students, as well as professional designers that are considering a career ― or a career expansion ― in television. It is an essential resource for any stage lighting designer whose show may be shot for a television special or a live webcast and who will be asked by their client to collaborate with the incoming video team. Review "I was first asked to adapt one of my stage productions for broadcast in 1982, long before the Internet or the availability of any book on the subject on theatre to television lighting. Luckily, I found a team of willing colleagues who worked in television to advise and counsel me. Arriving on site, however, I still had to confess to the video engineer that I was new to this, although ready, of course, to learn on the job. Thanks to some generous designers and patient engineers, my first broadcast production looked really good, and I have gone on to light a long list of stage productions for television and film. If, for my initiation, I had only had access to Moody and Ravitz’s Lighting for Televised Live Events (Routledge, 2021), I might not now have as many gray hairs. Now, in the wake of the pandemic, live streaming is making its demands on lighting designers, and this new venue will remain a part of our professional future. For that reason alone, this detailed and practical text should be part of every lighting curriculum and in every designer’s library. All of us working in live entertainment will be busy for some time, adapting our work for broadcast. We will be prepared." Ken Billington, Tony Award- and Drama Desk Award-winning Broadway lighting designer   "An incredibly well written and thorough text authored by two masters of light. The authors clearly explain advanced technical concepts with a very easy, almost conversational style. They also include many excellent color photographs and graphics that beautifully supports the text. A very timely and needed resource for lighting students and professional lighting designers." David Martin Jacques, Professor Emeritus, California State University Long Beach, Co-host of Light Talk with The Lumen Brothers   "Lighting for Televised Live Events is an invaluable resource for lighting designers, and especially for theatrical lighting designers who find themselves adapting their designs for the world of film and television. This book will equip the young, and established theatrical designer alike with a clearer understanding not only of the needs of a videographer, but for ways that they can make their designs more viable for the camera. Jeff Ravitz and Jim Moody explain highly technical information in a clear and usable format without sacrificing the designer’s eye for the needs/aesthetics of a production. As a professional lighting designer for theatre and dance