Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Date, Time, Location: Wednesday February 16^th , 2011; 10:30PMish, at my high school

Objective Description: all but orange tinted light posts shining through window

Subjective Description: I was walking through my high school at nigh after volunteering to build some of there set. As I pass by some of my classrooms something weird happened. All the lights in the main halls, that are on a timer, turn off. It was creepy. Then as I look into an old photo class it appears if the sun was still setting. This was not indeed the case but instead was a orange tinted street lamp shining in through the windows. It started to give the room life again with a evening persona.

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2) From Street Art Utopia (streetartutopia.com). Posted by user Vidar.

3) Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4) The image of in the center of this picture has a vibrance all of its own. The painting is so deeply colorful and bright it is impossible not to be drawn to it immediately. What is interesting is the way the vibrancy of the painting seems to have caused that which is around it to become more vibrant as well. Specifically the woman in blue and the fire hydrant.

1) Thursday February 17, 10:00, Outside Hofstra Hall

2) The light coming from Hofstra Hall is bright, and aimed right at me. It is white. There is other lighting coming from lamps. The moon is bright white and almost full.

3) The light aimed right at me is abrasive, and reminds me of a police interrogation. If I look up without being careful, I’m blinded for a second. However, it lights the whole area better than the side lamps, with their almost calming lighting that does little but to cast the area immediately surrounding them in a soft orange. The moon, meanwhile, serves as a great contrast. Just as white, whoever the moon does not blind, in fact, it is on and off blinded itself by the clouds.

Wednesday February 16th, 11:00 Outside Lowe Hall (cigarette pit)

2) The light is very orange. It is relatively dim. There is a dark shadow blocking out most of what is visible, and some light spilling on to the side of the building from a window right outside. The light from the window is bright white. There is very little visibility.

3) The light is foreboding and creepy. The orange seems other worldy, and the butts of cigarettes scattered on the dirt are only illuminated enough that they can be seen and not distinguished. The light spilling out the open window is cut off by the dark shadow cast by the railing and by the side of the ramp. It looks like jumping down, even though it is a small drop, would be very unpleasant.

1) Thursday Feb 17, 10th floor of the library, 5:30 PM

2) Sun setting over the west side of campus as seen from the top of the library.

3) I kinda set myself up for this one because I knew it would probably be good. I was looking at the sunset and there was a very large dark cloud low on the horizon. The sun was barely peaking over it casting its last golden yellow rays. The cloud was very dark blue purplish and provided an excellent contrast to the clear yellow/pink sky right above it. The sun cast reflections on hundreds of cars, windows, and buildings make lots of bright golden specks. This was a very happy scene and created a kind of introspective final moment of the first warm day of the year. It was a beautiful and relaxing scene.

1.) Wednesday Feb. 16th 2011, 5:20 P.M. Brower 201.

2.) Observing dusk through the windows of a dimly-lit classroom.

3.) Because of the time of year, my Monday-Wednesday art history class covers the amount of time it takes the sun to go down. I walk into class during the day and leave at night. During a boring slide show, I looked out the window and observed the dusky, dim, purplish light coming in that blended perfectly with the half-lit room and the glow of the projector. It was as if the artificial light and natural light blended perfectly. It was a very unsettling, disquieting feeling, something one would feel while watching a Hitchcock movie. Soon the balance was tipped as it got darker outside. That transitional feeling was memorable, though.

1.) Monday Feb. 14th 2011, 8:15 P.M. Puglia’s City Cafe, Garden City.

2.) A tacky disco band’s attempt at stage lighting.

3.) After always wanting to check this place out, I instantly regretted the reservation I made after seeing that I was 20 years younger than the next youngest person in the restaurant, and maybe one of 5 that spoke no Italian. However, the horrendous disco band had some great lighting effects… that they decided to throw together seemingly without anybody’s advice. Reds, greens, blues, purples. Spinning dots, disco ball effects, flashing with no particular rhythm. The visual overload made me uncomfortable to the point where it was not amusing. It was painful. It was exactly how I would light a bad disco band onstage to communicate that they were bad and played disco. An accidental lesson in bad lighting.

DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/16/11; 3:43M; Bernon Hall

OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Sunlight from the west shines through window and door in a counselor’s office in Office of Undergraduate Admission.

SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The sunlight lit up the whole room through a large window.  The bright pool of light landed on the floor in front of the counselor’s office.  It made me feel very productive because the light inside the room was very bright and even.

DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/13/11; 5:29PM; Hempstead Turnpike

OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Amber/blue sunset in the west near Hofstra University.

SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The sun was still in the sky, but it was getting darker and darker.  The sun had an amber glow that radiated from it.  Horizontal strips of amber light spread out from around the sun.  It was almost night.

ATTRIBUTION: http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/soap-bubble.jpg

THEME: Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

DESCRIPTION: Sunlight hits the bubble as it floats in the breeze.  Every color of light is shown in the bubble; It is a mini rainbow.  The deep blues fade into bright purples which fade into rich ambers.