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Types of Theater Light Instruments

    Spotlights

    • Spotlights light an actor or the stage in a small amount of light. The family of spotlights includes the following: fresnel, ellipsoidal, and the follow spot. Spotlights are capped with lenses.

    Floodlights

    • Floodlights light wide areas of the stage and the sets that you see at the back of the stage. The family of floodlights includes: scoops, box floods and strip lights. Most floodlights do not have lenses on top of the bulbs.

    Other Theater Lighting Equipment

    • Gels go over the bulbs and provide the color that you see on stage. Gels can be clear or colored--the colors of the gels that the lighting designer decides on helps to show the mood of the scenes, depict a place and time, and/or emphasize a particular actor.

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