 | From Page to Stage: How Theatre Designers Make Connections Between Scripts and Images by Rosemary Ingham
Buy new: $20.67 / Used from: $8.50 An important part of design that alot of people don't understand at all.
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 | Stage Rigging Handbook, Revised, 2nd Edition by Jay O. Glerum
Buy used from: $17.19 Useful for those times when you just gotta hang something really weird above the stage with only a clothes pin and...wait that's Mcguyver.
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 | The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information by Paul Carter
Buy used from: $16.50 You should always have a up to date copy of this book.
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 | A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting by Steven Louis Shelley
Buy new: $36.51 / Used from: $33.48 Sometimes you should be practical, instead of ...showey. And just may be this guy has some useful ideas about that.
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 | Lighting Technology, Second Edition by BRIAN FITT
Buy new: $50.10 / Used from: $55.00 Incase you have a crossover.
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 | Technical Theater for Nontechnical People by Drew Campbell
Buy used from: $0.06 Hand this one out to family and friends so they understand you.
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 | Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life by Richard Pilbrow
Buy used from: $104.52 Ah yes...the life. No sleep, not eating properly, doing stupidly dangerous stuff and acting like it's no big deal, then smugly pretending you did it incredibly safely.
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 | Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution by Harry C. Box
Buy used from: $8.87 One should always have the handbook for what they like doing.
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 | Drafting for the Theatre by Dennis Dorn
Buy new: $29.50 / Used from: $19.90 Drafting is kinda fun if you have the space for the table. It's kinda like meditating.
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 | Photometrics Handbook by Robert C. Mumm
Buy used from: $29.21 This is the Lighting designers BIBLE!! Seriously....
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 | Concert Lighting, Second Edition: Techniques, Art and Business by James Moody
Buy new: $46.90 / Used from: $40.00 ..dunno, just looked useful
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 | Concert Sound and Lighting Systems, Third Edition by John Vasey
Buy new: $34.92 / Used from: $16.99 Systems are important, otherwise it's all caos and just a bunch of stuff without control!
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 | Light on the Subject: Stage Lighting for Directors and Actors - And the Rest of Us by David Hays
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $0.86 How to explain simple stuff to the simple people. No, really it's something a professor made me read and it was good.
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 | Designer Drafting for the Entertainment World by Patricia Woodbridge
Buy new: $57.20 / Used from: $42.87 Because you need to know how to draw, even if you do have autocad. And it's not like architecture at all, so you better know the differences.
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 | Using AutoCAD: An Introduction to Computer-Assisted Design for the Theatre by L. J. DeCuir
Buy new: $31.95 / Used from: $0.01 The wave of the future! That's why you should know how to do this too..
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 | Stage Lighting Design: A Practical Guide by Neil Fraser
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $18.90 Like it says...
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 | Stage Lighting Controls by Ulf Sandstrom
Buy used from: $47.45 handy dandy so I can write cues, on these things called 'light boards,' and does the cover photo remind anyone else of Charlie's Angels?
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 | Perspective Rendering for the Theatre by William H. Pinnell
Buy new: $29.50 / Used from: $20.20 I had a professor who could free hand this stuff like crazy, but for me I always had to carefully draw it out, 'specialy if I wanted to design from it at all.
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 | Lighting Technology: A Guide for the Entertainment Industry by Brian Fitt
Buy used from: $49.99 You will need lots of water to read this, but it's still something to have for reference.
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 | Lighting and the Design Idea by Linda Essig
Buy used from: $13.86 Yes another of those 'concept of design' type books, but I swear there are so many designers out there today who don't really design as much as they just thow light on stuff in interesting ways.
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 | The Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist by Vincent Kehoe
Buy new: $63.30 / Used from: $54.06 You should always know a little bit about all the areas of this field.
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 | Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers by Liz Covey
Buy new: $26.55 / Used from: $11.00 Like I said, always know a little bit.
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 | Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting (Photography) by Max Keller
Buy used from: $56.60 Good book I say.
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 | Erte's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color by Erte
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.50 'cause Erte is actually cool.
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 | Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art and Technique of Design, Second Edition by Deena Kaye
Buy new: $41.50 / Used from: $28.68 You should know about sound too.
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