Talk:Lighting technician

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Ok. There's too much merging going on here. An electrician, a light board operator and a lighting designer a very different things. Cmouse 04:21, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking of merging everything under a name that suits them all. Light board operator, lighting designer and light technicians all deal with lighting control of in a theatrical or movie performance. The lighting technician is more of an overall term for it, while a light board operator works on the lighting board, using the instructions given to him by the lighting designer and lighting technicians.

Fireswordfight 16:38, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

If Wikipedia merges "Lighting Designer" and "Lighting Technician", will they also merge "Architect" and "Carpenter"? How about "Automotive Engineer" and "Metalworker"?(Jeffrey E. Salzberg)

• From the article of Lighting technician: Light technicans will also study the script to determine lighting effects required.
• From the article of Lighting Designer: lighting designer (or LD) within theatre is to work with the theatre director, set designer, and costume designer to create an overall 'look' for the show in response to the text, but bearing in mind issues of visibility, safety and cost.

I don't see such a similarity between Architect and Carpenter unfortunately.

Fireswordfight 00:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Executive Chef is to cook as lighting designer is to board technician. The board operator and the electrician (to some degree) work for the Lighting Designer in the theater. Lighting design is an art with somewhat different application in both architecture and theater/performance. Lighting designer most often refers to theater. The Architectural_lighting_design citation is light on information, while the Lighting article has information common to both applications. —Dogears (talk) 22:32, 28 December 2005 (EST)

Okay, I think I understand what you mean, but does that mean we do nothing about the 3 articles? I mean, Executive Chef and Chef are in one article...

Fireswordfight 22:47, 28 December 2005 (EST)

I say we keep three seperate articles. Or maybe merge with forward for Light technician and Light board operator. Now that there are a bunch of us paying attention, anyone for creating a project to improve the technical theater articles on Wikipedia? Cmouse 04:16, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

All the job descriptions can go into Stage Lighting, unless you want discrete citations for each. See also discussion at Talk:Lighting. - Dogears 06:46, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Having the general term stage lighting seems sensible. - Fireswordfight 11:25, 29 December 2005 (EST)

I disagree with merging all these into stage lighting. I feel that one could merge all the articles but lighting design into stage lighting. Other technical theater design areas have their own article. Cmouse 06:01, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Merge

I am a freelancer and I perform all of these jobs at one time or another, and I can say that they are most certainly not the same job and should not be clumped together. I agree with the Architect / Carpenter analogy.

The lighting designer and lighting technician are quite differant and both are highly skilled specialists. While an individual may be able to combine these skills, most designers and technicians will understand that each bring differant attributes to the theatre lighting process Rplight

Very well, I took off the request for merge.--Fireswordfight 20:46, January 3, 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename to Lighting Technician?

I have worked in the film industry in the US as a lighting technician for about 12 years, and I can honestly say I have never once heard the term 'light technician' used to refer to someone doing my job. Anyone doing legitimate research on film or theater job descriptions will be searching for information on lighting technicians and will be confused by the current article title. I intend to rename this article 'Lighting Technician' if there are no convincing reasons not to. Threephi 05:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

As a temporary measure I have added the article name Lighting technician with a redirect to Light technician. Threephi 05:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I have changed the name and will now clean up the links pointing to 'Light Technician' Threephi 04:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice work. I totally agree. LACameraman 06:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)