Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Lighting Moments – Google Docs

#1: Golden Amber- 65% intensity

#2: Goldne Amber- 65% intensity

#3: White light- full intensity

#4: White light- 25% intensity

#5: White light- 25% intensity

#9: White light- 50% intensity

#10: White light- 50% intensity

Here the coffee bean is lit nicely from behind and it gives the image a warm, safe feeling. I really enjoy the way the whole image pulls the viewer in based upon that feeling of security and comfort.

1. Tuesday, May 17th, around 8:00am. My dorm looking out to Oak street and the tress behind Stuyvesant.
2. There is a shadow from the building and the taller trees making it so some leaves appear to be greener than others.
3. With the sun on the other side of the building, I was able to see all of the shadows and where the light hit without the worry of being blinded. There was very little wind and no clouds, so it seemed as though that the leaves that were getting sun, had been getting sun for a while. These leaves looked like they were glowing green and started to reflect the sunlight. This was a nice contrast to the leaves that were in the shadows, getting no light. Where the leaves with sun seemed to be alive and have a mind of their own, the leaves in the shadows seemed mopey and like they had no movement to them. It gave off the illusion that the minimal wind only affected the leaves that had sun.

1. Wednesday, April 27th, around 9pm. My friend’s dorm in Tilburg in Netherlands North.
2. The street lamps in the Netherlands North quad coming in from the common room windows.
3. I was laying on the couch watching a show when I looked up at the ceiling and noticed an angled, amber light coming in through the window and hitting the wall that is perpendicular with the wall the windows are on. Across the room, on the wall parallel to the windows, there was more of a white light and had a complete shape of the windows and the shadow of the blinds. I enjoyed seeing these different lights coming in through the window because it was very obvious they were two different lights, and I was able to imagine in my head where they were outside of the window without actually looking out into the quad.

1. Tuesday, April 19th, around 7:30am. Looking out my dorm window from my bed.
2. The sunrise just above the Netherlands and shining through the tress, into my dorm.
3. I woken up to my roommate’s 7:30 alarm, and as I flipped over to check what time it was I saw the sunrise. I sat and looked at it for a second. It was a breezy morning, so the trees were swaying, but that movement didn’t even cause there to be shadows across my dorm. The orange rays shining through would just be hidden for a split second before I could see them again. The image was quite striking and I really took a moment to appreciate how a sunrise changes as the Sun makes its way up to the sky, but also that the sunrise can be different every morning. Then I went back to sleep.

1. Wednesday, April 13th, around 7:00am. Looking out the window outside of the girl’s bathroom in Lowe.
2. The sunrise peeking out between the Playhouse and Calkins Hall.
3. Most of the sky was a light grey, the color before the sun actually takes over the sky. Although I couldn’t see it, I  believe the Sun was just above the horizon and the orange and pink from the Sun were peaking out above the buildings. There was some cloudage in the sky which gave the pink and orange something to shine off of and create more saturated areas of the sky.

1. Thursday, April 7th, around 11:50pm. Driving on Oak Street and passing Napolini Express.
2. The restaurant was visibly closed and a dim red light filled the restaurant. The store sign was still lit up, and there were street lamps in the parking lot.
3. The lighting of Oak street was very consistent, a street light every couple of yards) as we continued our journey back to Hofstra University from the Mineola train station. Then when we came across the light right before the Hofstra University light, I noticed  striking red light to my left. It gave the street a pleasant contrast, after having so much of the same lighting. It also gave the street life in a way; even though the shop was closed, and the street was practically dead, it told a story. Obviously, the story is in the eye of the beholder, but it allowed me to appreciate lighting in a new way, with a new story that I hadn’t seen before.

1. Wednesday, March 29th, around 7:00pm. In my dorm.
2. The setting Sun was coming through my window and hitting my roommate’s fish tank causing a tiny square of rainbow to hit certain spots of the room.
3. I’ve always enjoyed seeing spots of rainbow due to how the Sun hits specific objects. The fish tank is fairly new, so previous sunsets never caused random rainbows to show up in my room. The placement of the fish tank was at an angle, so there was one rainbow on my side of the room and one on my roommate’s. This provided a nice balance, especially as the Sun continued to set and the rainbows moved across my room. It provided a nice calming or relaxing mood and a nice little sparkle of vibrance to a bland dorm room.

1. Thursday, March 17th. Around 10:30pm outside the Metropolitan Opera, looking at the hotel across the street.
2. The hotel across the street had a red lit up “H,” “T,” and “L” with a barely visible blinking “O.” The Fountain outside the Met was lit with amber light.
3. There was an ironic juxtaposition between the hotel’s lit up letters and the Met’s lit up fountain. On one side of the scene there was an almost ominous flickering of red block letters that could have been out of a murder documentary. On the other side there was a pleasant lit fountain allowing the water to sparkle, which is an inviting background for photos with family or friends. The contrast between the two sides of the scene was quite striking and I really appreciated how two moods could be depicted in a single “lighting moment.”

1. Thursday, March 10th. Around 9:00pm at the corner of Stuyvesant looking across Oak street to the Netherlands.
2. There were white street lamps contrasting the amber light coming from the lamps attached to the outside of the Netherlands Core, along with a haze in the air.
3. As I was looking out across the street, I noticed how the beams of light were shining through the night sky. Because there was an odd haze in the air it caused the lights to shine almost like a four-legged star or a plus sign. This was already a striking shape, until I noticed how the white light made the shape sharper and the amber light across the street had a softer and almost more welcoming shape to it. I was already planning on crossing the street, but it was a pleasant feeling to be walking away from the harsh white light and towards the warm amber light.