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There are various instruments available to you: Source 4 ellipsoidals, pars, fresnels (in KLT only), strip lights and cyc lights. If you don’t know what these are or are not sure of their properties there are many sources of information (even if you are sure it’s good to remind yourself). Karen Perlow (kperlow@mit.edu) is the theater arts faculty member and excellent lighting designer you can get information from. You will also need to know the heights of the different pipes and distances. Floor plans of both KLT and Sala exists somewhere in the ensemble office. If you cannot find them you can ask someone at MIT theater arts to print you another copy. The Sala plot can be found here: Sala Plot. As for heights Sala has a uniform pipe height of 20ft. A quick note, apparently the pipe between 8V and 9V in Sala mysteriously isn't there. KLT has heights that vary; Karen can give you an elevation map of KLT. The KLT plot is here http://web.mit.edu/aff/www/mitspaces/klt/
While creating your plot you should decide channel number for each instrument. A channel is a complete connection of instrument, circuit and dimmer. This is one way of organizing your instruments, for example giving your instruments channel numbers in order starting from downstage right to upstage left. During focus and afterwards you will probably refer to channel numbers (example: “can you bring up channel 19”). It is important that the numbers make sense to you the designer so you can refer to the correct instrument/s quickly and easily.
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