Course Title: Set up, record and operate lighting cues and effects

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4348 Certificate IV in Live Production and Technical Services

Course Title: Set up, record and operate lighting cues and effects

Portfolio: DSC Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 30

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

EEET6846C

City Campus

TAFE

345T Media and Communication

Face-to-Face or Workplace

 Term1 2016

Course Contact: Program Administration

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4815

Course Contact Email: mcvet@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

Experienced lighting technicians or operators in the screen, media and entertainment industries are expected to be creative and innovative in their implementation of lighting schemas across a diverse range of productions. In this course you will develop the skills and knowledge required to set up a lighting control system, and to use the more complex functions of a console. Skills in lighting console operation are developed through practice and you will learn to work autonomously and in a team environment as you take responsibility for operating lighting consoles to create quality lighting for live events.

This unit is delivered and assessed with CUFLGT301A Prepare, install and test lighting equipment and BSBWHS404A Contribute to WHS hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

CUFLGT402A Set up, record and operate lighting cues and effects

Elements:

1. Connect and format control system for productions

2. Plot and operate advanced cue types

3. Plot and operate effects

4. Solve lighting problems during performance

Learning Outcomes

 On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.

You will also:

  • have mastered the basic elements of lighting design and their impact on the set-up of lighting control systems 
  • be able to set up a lighting control system, and to use the more complex functions of a console.


Overview of Assessment

 Assessment for this course will involve demonstration of practical tasks and testing of underpinning theory knowledge.