ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the image of light and provides a method for analyzing the script. The image of light serves two purposes: It also provides the lighting designer with a working construct that summarizes his or her thoughts about what the lighting should look like for a specific production and the designer’s analysis of that image is used to create the lighting key. A motivated light cue is caused by some specific action contained within the script, like the beginnings and endings of scenes or acts or a character’s turning a light switch on or off. Analyzing the image of light for distribution and intensity is one of the primary elements used to determine the direction and intensity of the lighting key’s sources. During the analysis phase of the lighting process the designer usually considers movement of light only in terms of his or her feelings about the rhythm and flow of the production.
