Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1. Winter Afternoon Before Snow: I chose to utilize dark and light blues to show the contrast of cold-toned colors during the winter. I also used modestly white light to show the brightness coming in from behind the clouds. Spotted gobos were used to show the haziness / fogginess of the sky before the snowfall.

2. Noon on a Hot Summer Day in the Caribbean: When I think of the Caribbean, I think of sitting with my toes in the sand staring out at the sunset over the ocean. Accordingly, I chose a bright centered yellow light to portray the dimming sunshine. Next, I used blues and reds to show the blending of the sky with the setting sun. On the very outer edges, I also added a faint orange color as though the colors were disappearing at the ocean’s horizon.

3. Easter Sunrise in a Gothic Cathedral: Gothic Cathedrals tend to be very large with a multitude of stained glass windows and dark colors. However on Easter, bright colors and pastels very prevalent, so I wanted to mesh these ideas of dark and pastel. As a result, I used purple and yellow to portray light coming in through the painted windows as well as pinks and blues to indicate the sky’s colors pouring in too.

4. Fall Sunset in Vermont: I have never before been to Vermont and am not familiar with its layout in the slightest, so I had to look to Pinterest for some inspiration. However, I did find one breathtaking photo of the Greenback Mountains in Woodstock, which I tried my best to recreate in the photo above. Between the mountains in the midst of the clouds, bright pinks and blues blend with subtle apricot colors. Overhead it is overcast and all the lighting is flooding in from the sides.

1. Theme: Summer
2. Attributes: March 26th 6:51 pm, Arizona
3. Description: I took this photo because it reminded me of summer. Arizona tends to have a summer that arrives early and leaves late. The colors in the sunset are so rich and warm. The sun looks somehow hotter and brighter now that it is so low in the sky. It feels like the lighting at the tail end of a barbeque as the last of the burgers have been pulled off the grill and all of the kids are wrapped in towels with dripping hair eagerly waiting for their parent to make them a plate of food. The perfect lighting for a family dinner in a backyard.
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Photo Attribute: Google Images

Theme: Summer

Description: I chose this photo because it reminds me of vacation. Often my family and I will go on vacation upstate each summer. We always enjoy swimming in the lake so this photo made me feel nostalgic. I like how the person doing a flip into the water is almost aligned with the sun. The sun acts as a back light for the person jumping.

1. Theme: Surreal
2. Attributes: March 30, 6:15, LIRR
3. Description: This is a photo I took while reading on the train home. I liked the way the sun was pouring on to my book and the seats in front of me. The temperature outside was cold of the lighting on the train felt like a warm summer afternoon. The lighting almost seems too crisp, too warm, too bright, where it’s realistic because it did in fact happen but also seems surreal like there is something artificial about the overall lighting.

Date/Time/Location: 5/5 Student Rep Dress

Objective Description: The black box is dark and buzzing with pre-show jitters. I’m sitting in my seat waiting to watching my choreography, among many other works. The first piece ends and then a blue light just barely lights the space so that the dancers/crew can quickly remove several boxes from the stage.

Subjective Description: The blue was very ominous and reminded me of a percolating storm. It was interesting because just moments ago the dancers were dancing in a whole different “atmosphere” and now they were just people removed props from the stage. I liked how pedestrian this seemed.

Theme: Spring

Description: Cherruy blossoms are my favorite so I think of them when I think of spring. I chose this picture becuase of the sun shinning through the trees giving a lighting focus.

 For me summer lighting means one thing and that is the color blue. I chose this image because the lighting is completely saturated. It feels as bright as it could be.

For this week’s post I decided to go with a sunset lamp which is a really cool way to get a single-source light on something. I actually have one in my dorm. This is an image that I pulled. I really like the rings around the light. It creates a point of focus.

This week’s theme is nightlife. I decided to go with an image of a street after dark with some hearts projected into the sky. It gave me the same feeling as walking home really late on a summer night with my friends.