This module introduces students to the key roles and responsibilities of a stage management team. Students will acquire knowledge and skills to coordinate show departments such as set, lighting, sound, costume, and multimedia. Students will also learn the finer points of managing personnel and performers with differing personalities and needs – a critical skill when running a ‘live’ stage production.
Students will be introduced to the various technical aspects of lighting such as the types of lighting equipment, various consoles, methods of operation, rigging, and focusing. In addition, importance of safety, like safe methods of rigging and how equipment is secured within an arts facility, will be emphasised in this module. Students will explore fundamental knowledge of the physics of light and optics, instrumentation, scale plan analysis, electrics, rigging, laser and lighting technology, and control systems for a production.