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Choose your exam board

This filters set texts and takes you to the right written-exam guidance. You can change it at any time.

Set-text lighting

Take the lighting into the play.

The next Lighting Lab stage will load ready-made scenes so you can concentrate on the design decision rather than building the set first. These are Stark Drama teaching reconstructions, not official production designs.

First scene library

An Inspector Calls

Birling dining room, the Inspector's arrival, changing visual focus and the shift from domestic comfort to scrutiny.

Use the current lighting guide
First scene library

The Crucible

Public judgement, accusation, isolation and oppressive lighting choices in a Salem courtroom environment.

Use the current lighting guide
First scene library

DNA

Field and Wood environments, group hierarchy, isolation and controlled focus on performers within a sparse stage world.

Use the current lighting guide
Why these three first?

They give us three very different lighting problems while using the same fundamentals you have already learned. The interactive scene presets will plug into this route rather than changing the tutorial again.