How to Make Your Resume ROAR (Results Oriented and Relevant)

Drawing a basic room on stage in perspective.

Here I show how to shade our 2 point perspective front view sketch. These are basic sketching skills that will lead to creating front veiw renderings. Having sketches like these go a long way to help communicate with the director and the rest of the creative team during the pre-production process.

Shading our 2 point perspective front view of a basic set design. Adding more drama through darker shading. Creating a black and white front view rendering that a set designer, and/or a lighting designer would use to communicate with others what they planned on placing on stage for a production.

Hello. my name is Scott Parker and I want to welcome you to these design/tech pages. HSTech was created over 16 years ago to show the public what my student technicians were doing. StageSeminars was founded six years ago when Sonny Sonnenfeld and I started producing the annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday. As both activities are devoted to training of new designers and technicians, I've combine both into one website. 

Pete Borchetta presents a fantastic overview of the goals of lighting design. How lighting effects the overall look and feel of the show.

Three goals for the lighting designer: Pete will start with a basic discussion of the fundamental objectives for the lighting designer

Lighting Design is an art form unto itself. At the same time, lighting designers are part of a collaborative team with the director and the other designers, including Scenic, Costume, Sound, Projections, etc. It is the collaborative work of the design team and director that brings that art to the stage. Scott will discuss some of the technical steps required to be a team member in the theater production collaborative process.

Now that we've printed out all the parts to our model, it's time to assemble the paper into a simple 3-D model.