1. 

Pick a song that you like and try to create a concept of stage lighting. You may use one of the available programs to execute the idea. Why have you pick these colors in particular? What determined the sequence of cues? Is there any detectable pattern? On what ground have you based the idea?

2. 

Draw several basic compositions to the selected song. Can you reason why you selected such a composition in peculiar?

3. 

Pick a music video and analyze all the relevant conditions that determine lighting design: Setting, time, location.  Scenes, their duration, their mood. Can you evaluate the lighting design in it? Is there anything you would change to make it better?

4.

Some lighting designers use a model of a stage for their lighting design and that is something you can do as well. You may imitate various sources of light with sources of everyday use. In the large theater, the appearance would be similar, just bigger.

5.

Select a one-act play and analyze all the relevant conditions that would determine possible lighting design: Setting, time, location.  Scenes, their duration, their mood. Determine how each scenes should be lit. Can you reason, why you have selected instruments directions, colors?

Is there a basis idea behind your choices, or it is just arbitrary?

Now, list all the interdependent phenomena, with which your lighting design should count with.

Now, write down all the limitations that you may expect in a theatre during the execution of such a light plan.

6. 

Create a draft of the lighting design for

Winter night, Summer morning, An afternoon by the see,  Cold morning in the rainy weather