Drama 16 Stage Lighting

2/16 – 10:30 pm – inside my room

Objective description: There is a little bit of warm white light coming from a standing lamp in the corner of the room. There are also purple light covering the whole room coming from strip LED lights on my walls. There is a small amount of flicking light coming from a lit candle.

Subjective description: I keep the overhead light turned off in my room and prefer to have a bunch of smaller lights on to make the atmosphere feel more inviting. Having a few different colors of light adds dimension to my room and adds a purple tint to the posters on my wall. I feel relaxed because the dimmer lights do not hurt my eyes like my big overhead light.

2/16/24 – 9:05 AM – My house

Objective Description: The sun shining in through the window hit the prisms on the chandelier, and reflected rainbows on the wall behind it.

Subjective Description: The morning sun, in all its glory, comes through the open blinds. Little does it know that all its colors would soon be revealed when it shines through the hanging glass.

Light Observation 2/16

11:00 p.m.

Objective: As I was laying in bed, I set my phone down beside me and noticed the disco ball hanging on the wall to my right. On the floor below it, I have a sunset lamp shining upwards toward the corner of the two walls and ceiling. I strategically placed the disco ball here to reflect to faux sunset all over the room with small slivers of light.

Subjective: The orange and blue sunset lamp being reflected on to the surrounding walls around me feels intriguing and especially romantic with the candle also being lit. The mix of colors and low light ambience creates a calming tone in the room that is very relaxing.

2/15/2024 – 10:53 pm – Lowe 216

Objective: The projector light shines on the screen, illuminating the classroom.

Subjective: The projector light against the screen is the only light shining in the room, making all the focus centralizing the movie onscreen.  Although it is a dimmer light, and since the movie’s colors are in a dark tone, the eyes make your body react in a sleeping motion.

This is a picture I took during the Fall Festival during the 2023-2024 Fall Semester. The lighting is very romantic, not just because my significant other is in the picture but because of the colors in the sky. The texture of the clouds also adds to the romantic atmosphere.

02/09/2024

While walking past Emily Lowe Hall just after sundown there was a street light shining brightly against bare tree branches.

The light was cast on only some of the branches, leaving the surrounding branches and trees in shadow and darkness. The lit branches casts shadows in different directions, in thin and unique shapes around it.

I found this photo on Pinterest and I really liked the way the light in the background doesn’t take over, but allows for the silhouette of both people to be very nicely emphasized. The shape of the window allows for a very specific area of focus, while still allowing for the overall scene to support the elegance and warmth of the scene.

I chose this photo of mine for “romance” because it is a very special moment for me and my boyfriend. We had just finally seen each other after a trip I went on to Las Vegas. I love this photo because it is lit by the moon and reflections surrounding us, and even though you can’t see our faces, we are so happy. This was taken by my friend Juliana Amato, on my phone.

Date: 2/13/24 2:00pm

Location: Regal Cinemas

Objective: The Opening titles are lined with green and magenta on opposite sides. This, I realised thanks to references in last week’s lecture to 3d, gives them the illusion of dimensionality against the flat screen due to the function of our eyes.

Subjective: Bright white fonts blast off of the screen towards me. Their neon glow further calls for my attention. I cannot look away as they continue to approach

Objective: I was sitting in class on 2/8 while we were talking about shadows. You had mentioned that the window light created shadows on the right sides of our faces and it made me curious about how the window light would create shadows on my hand. I found myself moving my hand up and down and rotating it finding how the shadows moved accordingly on the left side of my hand.

Subjective: Something as simple as a window with beaming light next to my right shoulder created such a sense of wonder inside me. I felt silly, but I didn’t care because I was so intrigued about the newfound shadows I was noticing on my body. Like you said before, “go out and be excited about every floating element of time!”