Drama 16 Stage Lighting

I took this photo at the Old Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Theme: Fun

Description: Lights beaming from every direction, this luminous strip brings life to an entirely new spectrum. Reds, oranges, yellows, purples, blues and greens all combine to form a technicolor dream of displays. The bright colors and fluid projections send an uncontrollable wave of excitement and curiosity through the thick, warm air. Only the colorful blasts, however, can penetrate the dry heat from a boiling day. Stimulating colors brighten the night sky and awaken any tired eyes that remain.

I took this photo last spring break in Washington D.C.

The theme is fun; this photo fits this theme, not because sun rhymes with fun, but because sunshine has many positive associations with it.

The sun beats down on the land illuminating everything and making shadows small and scarce. It is the big white, hot monster come to scare away the night. The vibrant colors of the world dance in this mass illumination; all the details of objects that in the dark or gloom would not be seen invite the eyes to come and play with them. “Frolic, skip, dance from one place to the next,” they shout. “Marvel, embrace this warm light, and bathe in it,” the light beckons the eyes. The brightness and apparent whiteness of the light glimmers off of the surfaces it touches causing parts of them to appear as white as a pearl. It is a treasured light; it is playful fun. Children at school who look out the window will crave to feel its rays. Some working people will want to throw off their hats and run out into it. If they do, then they might cartwheel with joy and excitement as the light sparkles around them. “The light! The light!” In winter when such light is scarce, are not some people depressed? Do they not feel bored and incapable of happiness? Thus, when the sun returns, the fun also returns. The sunlight, the light source that first gave us the ability to delight in what we see and that gives the eyes so much to play with, is a fun light.

22 Feb. 2016 – 1:19pm – 2nd story Breslin Hall

The sun shines through a dirty window and also appears to reflect off of the bricks on the exterior of the building some. This shines a textured and patterned light on the interior wall and some grey doors of Breslin Hall. On the slightly peach-colored, off-white wall, the light looks cream, and, on the grey doors, the light looks light greenish with some blue in it.

The lighting is rough and intriguing. It displays a gobo-like pattern on an ordinary surrounding; thus, making the setting endowed with a theatrical magic. No longer are the objects just a wall and some doors; they are gritty like sand and mysterious like ocean waves with splashes of whitish foam and deeper colors. The lighting harkens to the beach with its reflected greenish and cream colors. The wall and doors are foreign objects in a bland classroom building setting with this lighting softly expanding across it. A breath filled with the smell of the ocean and dampness of water can be felt and imagined through this lighting. The lighting is transporting, alluring to the eye, and soothing with its gentle contrast between the light and shapes created by its false gobo.

Date: 2/22/16 Time: 11:00ish a.m. Location: Outside of the Spiegel

Objective Description: The light was strong and warm the way it usually is on a spring day.

Subjective Description: I sat on the stone wall of a raised bed that held a tree until about a week ago and realized how oddly warm it was for February. The sun was out and beaming trying to get past all of the trees and make its way to my face. The light was so bright and springlike that all the trees and greenery seemed like they had been colored by a crayon.

http://weheartit.com/entry/group/185103

Theme: Fun

Description: An amusement park is filled with bright, flashing, neon colors. At night these colors are enhanced by the contrast of the dark night sky. This photo is a perfect representation of fun lighting because of all the neon colors that draw a person in. If the lights were dim or dark, boring colors people would not be so attracted to everything that is going on, but because they are obnoxiously in a person’s face they get sucked in and hold the person until the lights are turned off.

Date: 2/18/16

Time: 4pm

Location: LH Comm. room 209 (the dance studio)

Objective Description: The sun was shining in through the emergency exit window and created a square of light on the floor.

Subjective Description: The sunlight poured into the studio from one small window.  It left a distinctive rectangle on the grey floor.  The florescent lights were turned off and all the light source was from that tiny window.  The rectangle elongated on the floor yet left a specific square of light and the rest of the room in darkness. There were harsh lines on the floor as to where the light stopped and the darkness started.

http://www.nightlightshq.com/audubon-society/new-night-lights-show-begins-jamestown-audubon-center-and-sanctuary/

Theme: fun

Description: The lighting in this photo gives off the feeling of fun by all the different colors.  I enjoyed the various colors and that there weren’t concrete lines separating them, all the edges just merged into one another.  I also thought it was fun because it took an object in nature that is typically neutral tones and made it appear abnormal and silly.  When I first looked at this photo I didn’t realize it was a tree until I looked at it more closely.  I enjoyed that the lighting changed the appearance of an everyday object and made it more fun and whimsical.

Photo of me, taken by a friend in January 2014

Theme: Hot

One of the most obvious things we think about when we think about “hot” in temperature is the color red, and for plenty of good reasons. In this photo I was playing around with my friends lightsaber when it was taken.

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Date: 2/18/2016 Time: 6:55 pm Location: Black Box Theater

Objective: The lighting moment happened backstage of As You Like It, minutes before the show opened. It was one of the bulbs used to light the pathway backstage so the cast and crew can walk freely to and fro.

Subjective: When I stumbled across this lighting I was like “O.O” It happened when Sean Moran who plays Duke Frederick stood in front of me as we were talking, and the light casting over him accented his outfit to make him look even more evil. Yet, he  has members of his evil court to which I tested to see how other members of the court would look, and so with Noah Smith playing Lebeaux, Andrew Salzano playing Touchstone and myself as Charles, the lighting looked like a movie poster of a movie, with one of our lines as the quote on the bottom. I forgot to take pictures yesterday, so I shall definitely tonight!

1. Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 – Constitution Hall
2. After days of snow and one day of rain, the sun is setting on the fog-shrouded trees of campus, and what would normally be a not-very-vibrant winter sunset is instead bright and colorful.
3. As though it were verification that though global warming might kill us all, but at least we’ll still have a few pretty things, the sun refracted through the water left in the air after rain melted the snow from yet another blizzard days before, casting rays of light and hope through the fog rising from among the trees.