Chapter 2 Paperwork Overview The first edition of this book focused on the paper- work and the process involved with installing and realizing a lighting design. This edition broadens that scope to examine the paperwork and process involved in the initial creation of a lighting design. This additional time period has resulted in expanding and re-compartmentalizing a spreadsheet called the Document Distribution Chart into different stages, detailing when documents are gathered, created, and distributed. This chapter is an overview of that amended spreadsheet; examining the documents that will be show is frozen (or when there are no more changes). The fourth and final stage is archiving the show infor- mation so it can be used again in the future. These four stages are merely being used as a way to segment the information. They're certainly not meant to replace the three finite moments of any lighting design: 1. The moment that you're hired or agree to design the show. 2. The moment that the show begins to load into the performance space.