Lighting Designer


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Imero Fiorentino on the role of a lighting director and lighting designer
04:38
William Klages on advice for aspiring lighting directors
00:37
Robert Dickinson on the role of a lighting designer
00:25
Imero Fiorentino on how lighting can create a mood
02:54
William Klages on the profession of Lighting Directors and the interaction with the Director
06:52
Robert Dickinson on the next big thing in lighting and how television lighting has changed
02:40
Who talked about this profession

Robert Dickinson

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Robert Dickinson on the role of a lighting designer
00:25
Robert Dickinson on lighting design for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
01:09
Robert Dickinson on drawing blueprints for lighting design
01:48
Robert Dickinson on lighting design for Solid Gold
00:51

Imero Fiorentino

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Imero Fiorentino on wanting to be a lighting designer from the time he was a little boy
01:36
Imero Fiorentino on how losing an eye changed him and affected his chosen profession
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Imero Fiorentino on lighting experimental television at ABC
05:04
Imero Fiorentino on the equipment with which he worked in the early days
03:19
Imero Fiorentino on the role of a lighting director and lighting designer
04:38
Imero Fiorentino on how lighting can create a mood
02:54

William Klages

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William Klages on the question of safety on a stage as a Lighting Director
03:30

Donald A. Morgan

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Donald A. Morgan on becoming a gaffer/electrician/lighting designer
01:14
About

"The responsibility is not just the lighting, or getting a pretty picture. You have to understand the script, the writer."- Imero Fiorentino, Lighting Designer

Designs a lighting plot that creates the overall look of a show, while working closely with other creative departments of a production. Supervises the lighting team to control programming, focusing of instruments, and writing cues.

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