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Team Lighting Challenge 2024

Rules

  • Can be a solo, duet, or a group of 4.  
  • The type of lighting that you have on your home campus (listed in required documents) will be considered in your scoring. The purpose is to use lighting you have available to accurately convey the meaning of the song.
  • The film footage should be of the whole stage and be one continuous shot. You are not permitted to edit in various clips, cuts, or close ups.
  • Entrants will use the music provided to create the theatrical lighting design.
  • Entrants should create their own lighting designs and not copy from other sources. Directors will sign off that work is original work for this years competition prompt.
  • The music may not be altered in any way. The interpretation of the music and how the music is navigated is what is being judged.
  • Students are allowed to use 3 scenic elements. No students/actors may be used as bodies on stage.
  • Haze is permitted based on individual home campus guidelines.
  • The use of projections is not permissible in this competition at this time.
  • The use of a cyclorama is permitted but no other types of reflective or specialty curtains can be used.
  • All designs are due by midnight on October 28, 2024. Winners will be announced at each festival with the top lighting design for each festival being played during opening ceremonies.

NOTE: As this is a new competition we are clarifying as we get questions. Clarifying information can be found below.
  • Props are not allowed.
  • Scenic elements are any individual pieces.
    • Example: platform, ladder, chair = 3 scenic pieces
    • Example: chair, table, tree= 3 scenic pieces
  • You may use your schools fly system but anything attached to the fly system will be considered a scenic element UNLESS it is a lighting element.
    • Lighting Element Example: A lighting element would be considered a star curtain.
    • Scenic Element Example: A sign
2024 Song to Design
Please download the song below for the for this years competition!
​An easy to use in the classroom resource for teachers and students. Meant to be printed on one piece of paper and includes the competition rubric.

For more information or questions,
​contact Christine McClung

What to Prepare

For the light design the students must have the following included in their submission:
  • Concept Statement (PDF)
    • 20-30 sentences explaining the thought process behind your designs, challenges you faced and how you overcame them.
  • Campus Lighting Resources Document
    • A basic inventory of the lighting instruments you have on your campus.
      • Include approximate number of instruments and the types that are hung in the space and being used.
      • # of Lighting Areas on your stage
      • Lighting Console system used
    • A photo/screenshot of the lighting program you used.
      • Include a photo of all cues programmed.
      • If no program was used (no light board on your campus) please photograph where you run lights from.​
  • Final Film of Theatrical Design Includes:
    • The given music track (played live in the video or layered in editing)
    • At least 10 lighting cues
  • A PDF of a complete Light Cue Sheet (example in this document). This should include but is not limited to:
    • Areas
    • Intensities
    • Colors/Gels/Gobos
    • Fade Times (Up and Down)
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