Drama 16 Stage Lighting

• Lights:
  • ETC Source 4 36 degree in Deep Amber at 50% intensity
  • 2 ETC Source 4 36 degree with no gel at 40% intensity (gobos)
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree in Deep Orange at 30% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree with no gel at 24% intensity
  • 6″ Fres in Surprise Pink at 100% intensity
  • Cyc Light in Deep Straw at 20% intensity
  • Cyc Light in Light Steel Blue at 58% intensity
• Description:
  • Looking at my research of sunsets in Vermont, I was heavily inspired by golden hour, the sun in one’s face, and the long shadows that are cast around this time. I also looked at paintings by people native to Vermont and the colors that they used to depict this time of day. 

• Lights:
  • 2 ETC Source 4 36 degree in Off Color Straw at 30% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 36 degree in Surprise Pink at 70% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 36 degree in Off Color Straw at 20% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree with no gel at 20% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree with no gel at 60% intensity
  • Par 64 in Gallo Gold at 10% intensity
  • 8″ Fres in Surprise Pink at 100% intensity
  • Cyc Light in No Color Straw at 20% intensity
• Description:
  • When I think of cathedrals, I think of high windows with lots of light streaming in, and stained glass. A lot of the cathedrals I was looking at had stained glass in various jewel tones, and I liked the purples ones the best. I envisioned someone walking into the cathedral down the aisle as the sun shone in from one side of the cathedral more brightly than the other due to the sunrise. 

• Lights:
  • Cyc Light in Daylight Blue at 100& intensity
  • Par 64 in Pale Gold at 100% intensity
  • 6″ Fres in Light Straw at 65% intensity
• Description:
  • I knew about this phenonmenon in that occurs exclusively during the summer in Hawaii called the Lahaina noon which is when the sun passes directly above certain islands. It either creates really weird shadows immediatly below an object or non at all, which creates the videogame-like effect that I tried to replicate here.

4) Winter afternoon in North Dakota

• Lights:
  • 2 Par 64 in No Color Blue at 100% intensity
  • Par 64 in No Color Blue at 50% intensity
  • Par 64 in No Color Blue at 40% intensity
  • 4 ETC Source 4 36 degree with no gel at 100% (gobos)
  • Cyc Light in No Color Blue at 70%
• Description:
  • Winters in North Dakota are incredibly harsh. I tried to replicate the snow moving on the ground during a windy afternoon, and the stark brightness of the sky due to the snow’s white reflection. 

A Fall sunset in Vermont

The colors of the backdrop portrays the color of the sunset while the lights on Lucy are darker but still amber like a normal sunset tends to be.

Lights:

1)

• Gel: AP3300
• Intensity: 63%
• Angle: 61 degree, front side

2)

• Gel: AP2180
• Intensity: Full
• Angle: 54 degree, direct backlight

3)

• Gel: AP2140
• Intensity: 65%
• Angle: 61 degree, front side

4) Backdrop

• Top
  • Gel: AP3600
  • Intensity: 20%
  • Gel: AP3550
  • Intensity: 70%
• Bottom
  • Gel: AP2190
  • Intensity: 30%
  • Gel: AP7350
  • Intensity: 66%

Spring Sunrise in a Gothic Cathedral

Here, the colors of the backdrop showcase the sunrising behind a gothic cathedral. Them, the lights on Ray are as if the sun is shining in from windows of the cathedral.

Lights:

1)

• Gel: AP2180
• Intensity: 25%
• Angle: 33 elevation, 21 degree side angle, front

2)

• Gel: AP2120
• Intensity: 44%
• Angle:48 elevation, 37 side angle, front

3)

• Gel: R313
• Intensity: 61%
• Angle: 90 degree elevation angle, direct on top

4)

• Gel: G970
• Intensity: 88%
• Angle: 48 elevation, 37 side, front

5)

• Gel: RE217
• Intensity: 63%
• Angle: 37 elevation, side boom

6) Backdrop

• Top
  • Gel: G970
  • Intensity: full
• Bottom
  • Gel: L015
  • Intensity: 14%
  • Gel: AP6400
  • Intensity: 87%

Noon on a hot Summer day in Hawaii

In this moment the backdrop is bright blue to show the summer sky, then the lights on the couple are bright and warm to show case how it is a hot afternoon day.

Lights:

1)

• Gel: R09
• Intensity: 78%
• Angle: 52 elevation, 21 side, front

2)

• Gel: AP2020
• Intensity: 92%
• Angle: 52 elevation, 21 side, front

3)

• Gel: RE013
• Intensity: 42%
• Angle: 17 elevation, 37 side, box booms

4) Backdrop

• Top
  • Gel: R361
  • Intensity: full
• Bottom
  • Gel: R363
  • Intensity: full

Winter afternoon in North Dakota

The cool toned lighting leads to an overall cold image. The backdrop color on the top is pastel blue to show the afternoon sky, but white near the bottom to show how it may be snowing.

Lights:

1)

• Gel: AP3520
• Intensity: 81%
• Angle: 42 degree elevation angle, 48% side angle, front

2)

• Gel: L205
• Intensity: Full
• Angle: 52 elevation, 21 side, front

3)

• Gel: L203
• Intensity: 42%
• Angle: 23 elevation, 56 side, boom

4) Backdrop

• Top
  • gel: R361
  • Intensity:79%
  • gel: R361
  • Intensity: 32%
  • gel: L278
  • Intensity:37%
• Bottom
  • gel: NC
  • Intensity: 78%
  • gel: R363
  • Intensity: 85%

1)A FALL SUNSET IN VERMONT

Ray is sitting on a dock in front of a lake over the cool fall breeze. The sun is setting and he looks down, this is supposed to give the feeling of a passing summer into a cold and dark. winter

Ray Sitting Side and Box Platform Lighting

• RE130 25%
  • 38 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle/ 17 feet above the deck, 12 feet stage left of model, 8 feet upstage of model, 18 foot throw.
• RE089 50%
  • 23 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle/ 12 feet above the deck, 12 feet stage left of model, 8 feet upstage of model, 16 foot throw.
• RE113 90%
  • 0 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle/ 6 feet above the deck, 12 feet stage right of model, 8 feet upstage of model, 14 foot throw.
• RE071 FULL
  • 29 degree elevation angle, 37 degree side angle/ 17 feet above the deck, 12 feet stage right of model, 16 feet downstage of model, 23 foot throw.
• RE450 75%
  • 31 degree elevation angle, 29 side angle/ 17 feet above the deck, 9 feet stage right of model, 16 feet downstage of model, 21 foot throw.

Cyc Lighting

• Upstage Right NC 10%
• Upstage Center Right RED 83%
• Upstage Center Left GREEN 50%
• Downstage Right L071 60%
• Downstage Center Right G987 FULL
• Downstage Center Left L075 FULL
• Downstage Left G995 FULL

2)SPRING SUNRISE IN GOTHIC CATHEDRAL

Two people sit quietly in a cathedral just as the sun is rising, the light having just breached the orange glass and going over the ground and climbing the walls. This is supposed to give a somber feeling with rising hope or possible intellectual thought.

Lucy Sitting Lighting

• NC 25%
  • 0 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle/ 6 feet above the deck, 12 feet stage right of model, 8 feet downstage of model, 14 foot throw.
• G250 50%
  • -23 degree elevation angle, 0 degree side angle/ 1 foot above the deck, 12 feet stage rightof model, direct sidelight, 13 foot throw.
• AP2190 50%
  • -19 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle/ 1 foot above the deck, 12 feet stage rightof model, 8 feet downstage of model, 15 foot throw.

Ray Sitting Lighting

• NC 25%
  • 0 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle/ 6 feet above the deck, 12 feet stage left of model, 8 feet downstage of model, 14 foot throw.
• G250 50%
  • -23 degree elevation angle, 0 degree side angle/ 1 foot above the deck, 12 feet stage left of model, direct sidelight, 13 foot throw.
• AP2190 50%
  • -19 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle/ 1 foot above the deck, 12 feet stage left of model, 8 feet downstage of model, 15 foot throw.

Cyc Lighting

• Downstage Right AP2190 FULL
• Downstage Center Left G250 FULL

3)NOON ON A HOT SUMMER DAY IN HAWAII

This is supposed to feel as if an intense moment or intimate one. The duality of the lighting with both the darkness but also the light that shines from the almost setting sun which adds some warmth.

Pair Lighting

• NC 25%
  • 14 degree elevation angle, direct back light/ 10 feet above the deck, centered on model, 16 feet downstage of model, 16 foot throw.
• BLUE FULL
  • 54 degree elevation angle, direct back light/ 17 feet above the deck, centered on model, 8 feet upstage of model, 14 foot throw.
• AP2190 FULL
  • 23 degree elevation angle, 56 degree back angle/ 12 feet above the deck, 12 feet stage left of model, 8 feet upstage of model, 16 foot throw.
• C730 FULL
  • 54 degree elevation angle, direct back light/ 17 feet above the deck, centered on model, 8 feet downstage of model, 14 foot throw.

Cyc Lighting

• Upstage Left BLUE FULL
• Downstage Right NC 50%
• Downstage Center Left G730 FULL
• Downstage Left AP2190 25%

4)WINTER AFTERNOON IN NORTH DAKOTA

This scene is meant to be deeply cold and dark. The weather is supposed to represent the cold and winter frost that covers everything and makes the day look as if night or afternoon.

Lucy Lighting

• NC 25%
  • -31 degree elevation angle. 37 degree side angle/ 0 feet above the deck, 6 feet stage right of model, 8 feet downstage of model, 12 foot throw.
• BLUE 50%
  • -37 degree elevation angle, direct backlight/ 0 feet above the deck, centered on model, 8 feet downstage of model, 10 foot throw.
• NC 25%
  • -31 degree elevation angle. 37 degree side angle/ 0 feet above the deck, 6 feet stage left of model, 8 feet downstage of model, 12 foot throw.
• G870 FULL
  • 90 degree elevation angle/ 17 feet above the deck, centered on model, direct downlight on model, 11 foot throw.

Cyc Lighting

• Upstage Right NC 50%
• Downstage Right NC 75%
• Downstage Left BLUE FULL

Fall Sunset in Vermont

All sunsets tend to vary in color depending on where it is. This lighting was based on a sunset over a lake in Vermont, mostly consisting of shades of magenta and blue, with a touch of golden yellow.

Models:

• L085 (25%)  37 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle, 17 ft above deck, 12 ft stage left , 8 ft downstage , 18 ft throw
• Magenta (50%) 32 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle, 15 ft above deck, 12 ft stage left , 8 ft downstage, 17 ft throw
• G860 (25%) 23 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle, 12 ft above deck, 12 ft stage left, 8 ft downstage, 16ft throw
• G450 (70%) 0 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle, 6 ft above deck, 12 ft stage left, 8 ft downstage, 14 ft throw
• L002 (50%) -19 degree elevation angle, 56 degree side angle, 1 ft above deck, 12 ft stage left, 8 ft downstage, 15 ft throw

Spring Sunrise in Gothic Cathedral

Light from a sunrise is not quite viewed from the inside of a cathedral as much as it is viewed from the outside. This lighting was based on an image from a sunrise next to a cathedral in Milan. The sky is still partially dark but the sun’s rays begin to take over as it ascends.

Models:

• LHT721 (75%) 51 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 9 ft stage right, direct sidelight, 14 ft throw
• AP4680 (full) 42 degree elevation angle, 48 degree back angle, 17 ft above deck, 9 ft stage right, 8 ft upstage, 16 ft throw
• G382 (full) 61 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 6 ft stage right, direct sidelight, 13 ft throw
• AP6900 (full) 48 degree elevation angle, 37 degree back angle, 17 ft above deck, 6 ft stage right, 8 ft upstage, 15 ft throw
• R18 (50%) 52 degree elevation angle, 21 degree side angle, 17 ft above deck, 3 ft stage right, 8 ft downstage, 14 ft throw
• AP2200 (full) 75 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 3 ft stage right, direct sidelight, 11 ft throw
• G388 (full) 52 degree elevation angle, 21 degree back angle, 17 ft above deck, 3 ft stage right, 8 ft upstage, 14 ft throw
• AP3450 (full) 54 degree elevation angle, direct backlight, 17 ft above deck, centered, 8 ft upstage, 14 ft throw

Noon on a Summer Day in Hawaii

Summer in such a tropical climate tends to get incredibly hot, especially at noon, when the light is almost directly overhead. This lighting is based on an image of a typical sunny day on a Hawaiian beach.

Models:

• AP3350 (75%) 43 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 12 ft stage right, direct sidelight, 16 ft throw
• AP1950 (75%) 48 degree elevation angle, 37 degree side angle, 17 ft above deck, 6 ft stage right, 8 ft downstage, 15 ft throw
• AP5800 (75%) 61 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 6 ft stage right, direct sidelight, 13 ft throw
• AP4270 (75%) 54 degree elevation angle, direct backlight, 17 ft above deck, centered, 8 ft downstage, 14 ft throw
• AP4850 (25%) 61 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 6 ft stage left, direct sidelight, 13 ft throw
• AP2140 (full) 42 degree elevation angle, 48 degree side angle, 17 ft above deck, 9 ft stage left, 8 ft downstage, 16 ft throw

Winter Afternoon in North Dakota

Naturally, winter often brings a lot of snow, which usually reflects light from the sky. This lighting was based on an image of snow-covered trees and hills, with glimpses of color in between the branches.

Models:

• G820 (75%) 48 degree elevation angle, 37 degree side angle, 17 ft above deck, 6 ft stage right, 8 ft downstage, 15 ft throw
• G535 (75%) 61 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 6 ft stage right, direct sidelight, 13 ft throw
• G305 (75%) 52 degree elevation angle, 21 degree side angle, 17 ft above deck, 3 ft stage right, 8 ft downstage, 14 ft throw
• G540 (75%) 75 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, 3 ft stage right, direct sidelight, 11 ft throw
• G872 (50%) 54 degree elevation angle, direct backlight, 17 ft above deck, centered, 8 ft downstage, 14 ft throw
• G160 (50%) 90 degree elevation angle, 17 ft above deck, centered, direct downlight, 11 ft throw

For this stage picture I used an image I found of a literal sunset in Vermont for inspiration. The models are facing the general direction of the sun while their opposite sides are left to the darkness.

Models:

• R3202 48° Elevation Angle, 38° Back Angle / 17ft Above / 6ft Stage Right / 8ft Upstage
• AP2190 51° Elevation Angle / 17ft Above / 9th Stage Left / Direct Sidelight
• Ap2100 43° Elevation Angle / 17tf Above / 12ft Stage Left / Direct Sidelight

The lighting inside a cathedral isn’t very bright except when the light shines through the windows. This was my inspiration for the scene and the backdrop. The lighting on the tops represents the morning sun rays coming through the stain-glass windows.

Backdrop:

• Top Row: AP3350/G345  Bottom Row: AP3520

Models:

• RE190 43° Elevation Angle / 17ft Above / 12ft Stage Right / Direct Sidelight
• RE190 48° Elevation Angle, 37° Side Angle / 17ft Above / 6ft Stage Left / 8ft Downstage

The inspiration for this lighting came from the beaches of Hawaii. The lighting on the bottom row of the backdrop represents the sand of the beach. There’s also a subtle blue on stage right to represent the refection of water. The sphere is a giant beachball for Lucy play with on her vacation.

Backdrop:

• Top Row: Ap2000  Bottom Row: R3405

Models:

• NC 23° Elevation Angle, 56° Side Angle / 12ft Above / 12ft Stage Right / 8ft Downstage
• G510 32° Elevation Angle , 56° Side Angle / 6ft Above / 12ft Stage Right/ 8ft Downstage
• G410 90° Elevation Angle / 17ft Above / Centered /Direct Downlight
• G740 -19° Elevation Angle, 56° Backlight / 1ft above / 12ft Stage Left / 8ft Upstage

My inspiration for this scene came from images of a nearly pink sky contrasting the ground covered in a layer of snow. I tried imtating the reflection of light snow gives in daylight also.

Backdrop:

• Top Row: L162  Bottom Row: G790

Models:

• AP2040 37° Elevation Angle, 56° Side Angle / 17ft Above / 12ft Stage Right / 8ft Downstage / 42% Level
• AP2040 54° Elevation Angle (Direct Back Light) / 17ft Above / Centered / 8ft Downstage
• L013 27° Elevation Angle / 12ft Above / 12ft Stage Left / Direct Sidelight
• NC -19° Elevation Angle, 56° Side Angle / 1ft Above / 12ft Stage Left / 8ft Downstage