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This page is for the lighting director.

Often kids forget to think about lighting their shows, which is too bad. Good lighting can make the difference between a boring show and an interesting one.

If you put on your show at night, you can create especially interesting lighting effects. For example: you can keep the "house lights" on while the audience is being seated. Then, all of a sudden at the start of the play, turn off all the lights. Someone strikes a gong. A small light clicks on. It is focused on the face of Dracula.

Or, three monsters wearing capes enter. The lights go off. All you see are their faces bottom-lit by flashlights they are carrying under their capes.

Or, in a talent show you have soloists. Turn all the lights out and shine one light only on the performer. Use a light bright enough to light up the person well but not so bright as to light up everything in the background.

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