Job Role - Lighting Designer

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Lighting Designers use the script or brief from the production team to design the specific look required for each shot. They use their advanced technical skills to realise the design and, with the help of the rest of the lighting department, to set up and operate specialised lights and accessories. 

Lighting Designers make extensive preparations before recording days, including script reading and taking part in discussions about the style required. Following the planning meeting, Lighting Designers may prepare a lighting plan (or plot) which provides information about the position, type and colour of all the lights to be used. 

Lighting Designers oversee the set-up and operation of the lights, by instructing a team of Sparks on the studio floor, and the Lighting Console Operator who controls studio lighting effects, using equipment in the gallery (technical area). During recordings or live transmissions, any final adjustments are made as and when required.

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