Developing perfect stage plan (aka stage plot) for the show Many clubs in our area are requesting band rider and band stage plan. I recently had to provide a detailed plan for a show, and it was a pain to come up with the good stage plan.
*Note that there are CAD video resources at the, including tutorials on Vectorworks and AutoCAD. Image by on Flickr A Stage Lighting Plan is? The lighting plan is the Lighting Designers tool, planning the location of lighting equipment and communicating information to everyone else. Originally drafted on paper (cave painting of fire beacon designs have yet to be found) CAD has taken over but let’s forget about grids, snaps and polysplines for the minute. The plan (some people call it a “plot” or the “Desperate” in Lampie rhyming slang) is the bird’s eye representation of the venue, lighting positions and fixtures. During the design stage, the LD uses it to experiment with angles and placements.