Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) Wednesday at 830 pm, walking back to Nassau/ Suffolk, at the weird looking tree in the circle near the graduate housing

2) 5 or 6 street lights, casting light on me, and the tree

3) As I was walking back, I thought I saw someone walking behind me out of the corner of my eye, I turned to see it was my own shadow even though there was another in front me. It was then I noticed that I had many shadows surrounding me, created by the circular arrangement of street lights. Some of the shadows were sharp as the light was close and direct, but others were more blurred and obscure as the light was diffused through the tree. It created a very strange, almost star shaped pattern of shadows surrounding me. This was a very unnatural scene because usually I am accustomed to only seeing one shadow from one light source at a time, but this threw me off and unnerved me. It made me feel like people were following or watching me.

1) Monday, 10:30 pm, outside Dempster near Cafe on the Quad

2)Lamp through tree

3) As I was walking back, I noticed these long shadows on the ground. A lamp was shining through the branches of long tree and was casting very long shadows on the ground. The shadows were curving, twisting, and intertwining, against a yellow/brown ground. The scene was fairly dark except for the faint light provided by the lamp, dimmed further by the branches. The light created an eerie and mysterious feeling with the long, drawn out shadows on the pavement. They looked like arms reaching out for something as they stirred in the breeze. Or flimsy noodles.

While in most cases a beam of light through the darkness gives one a warm and hopeful feeling, but to me, when light is shining through bars, it actually has the opposite affect. The fact that the light is being blocked gives it almost a feeling of inaccessibility, as if the hope and light are just out of reach.

When: Tuesday Morning

Where: Field at sun set

Objective: Someone lighting a cigarette at night

Subjective: As my friend lit his cigarette, the lighter lit up his face. This had two affects. The light from below brought out shadows as well as the color in his face. Normally, when light hits from below it makes someone look eerie, but in this case, the warm color of the fire gave his face a warm glow that was almost complimentary.

When: Monday Afternoon Where: My apartment Objective: Light is mostly hidden by our next door neighbor’s house, but a slim beam of light went past the house and in through my kitchen window. The beam was visible from where the neighbor’s house was straight through my kitchen Subjective: This was a really cool affect, and definitely brought the warm feeling the sun gives you into the house. The architecture of the neighbor’s house was well defined by the beam of sun, bringing out the angles and textures.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 03/12/11 Dorm Room

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Light from the cellphone reflecting on one side of a persons face and the light from a street lamp on the other side

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: As the light crept in through the window from the street lamp and fell upon my friend it felt warm and some what comforting. The light on the other side of him from his cellphone felt cold, uninviting, and unatural. The combination of the two created a creepy division.  It almost had a Jekyll and Hyde feel.