General cover: Additional Lighting Designs

In the round: Profiles are used rather than minuette fresnels and 1ks as this will prevent the spill of light and there is no backlight needed to be produced, this is because the positioning / movements of the performers is unpredictable and the audience are seated all around the stage. Instead the performers are lit by all four corners in which ever area of the stage they stand. Using this method the actors will be lit from all directions no matter where the audience are sitting meaning there are no shadows. Profiles are a better choice because they do not have barn doors, there are shutters which can be used to focus the beam of light to how you want it to be (ie circular) this cannot be achieved with barn doors as they are not circular in shape.

I have used 1K fresnels for the backlight and minuette fresnels for the wash. The 4 corners system was applied for sections A - C because there is no backlight. The three point triangular lighting technique has been used for the back 3 areas, similar to End On theatre. using the 1k fresnels means that you can use barn doors to reduce the amount or prevent any spillage of the light onto the stage or above the cyclorama.

This is my manual drawing for a general cover of a Traverse stage. I have used 1K Fresnels as backlight and minuette fresnels for the wash again works well if you use the barn doors to prevent the spillage of unwanted light. Profiles could be used alternatively to achieve a more intensely focused / narrower beam of light as they have shutters instead of barn doors. The use of shutters can be effective for lighting a small area of the stage that may need to be lit.
A B C D E F G and H boxes represent where an actor will stand to make sure the entire stage is lit and nowhere is missed out.

This is my manual drawing for a general cover of an End On theatre. I have used 1K Fresnels as backlight and minuette fresnels for the wash. I have used the triangular technique / 3 point lighting the lights used on the right are symmetrical to those on the left, this will give a general cover of the whole staging area meaning everything is lit correctly without any dark spots. A B C D E F boxes are there to represent a space in which the performer stands. This means that there will be no areas that are missed (all of the stage will be lit equally)