Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Photo taken by me

#1/2/3/4/5: Belladonna rose, full intensity

#6/7/8: Primary blue, full intensity

I took this picture at a concert last summer, and I remember being there and thinking that the lighting was very surreal and unnatural, in a good way. The colors were so vivid and coming straight down to the audience from the stage, so it felt like I was in another world.

Reference Photo Via Pinterest

I selected this image because of the strange, almost unnatural lighting it displayed. Althought it is still on a single subject, I knew that it would prove as a challenge.

When making my diagram, I knew that I was going to utilise the cyc lights. I also planned on using ERS’s for the spots of color which break up the orange/red background.

In Light Lab, I would have made the floor and wall white to be more reflective but ran out of time.

Fixtures:

4 Cyc 100% Golden Amber

Chan 1- Top Light, Soft Focus, Light Red, 36 deg, 50%

Chan 2- Side Light Stg Left, hard focus, Golden Amber, 26 deg, 100%

Chan 4-6- Background lights, soft focus, Deep Straw, (10, 19, 26 deg), 50%

Chan 9-10- Top Light, Soft Focus, Light Red, 90 deg, 50%

photo from google and eos

Lights used:

1. SL upstage, cyan lighting, side lights, full percent
2. CS upstage, cyan lighting, CS Top Light, full percent
3. SR upstage, cyan lighting, side lights, full percent

Photo via Pinterest

Theme: Surreal

I chose this photo as surreal because it is unnatural lighting. The color combination is unusual, and putting myself in the model’s position in the image, staring directly into a light source can induce a feeling of surrealism.

For the angle/color diagram, there appears to be a front light containing an orange light with a green highlight, and a second orange spot from the upper left corner.

Deep Straw – full, front and upper left corner

Medium Blue Green – full, front

Medium Blue Green – 75, upper left corner

I used a soft focus on all four beams, 5-degree width on both Medium Blue Greens, and 14-degree width on both Deep Straws.

photo from google and eos

Lights used:

1. SL upstage, white lighting, side lights, cyc 25 percent
2. SL upstage, white lighting, side lights, cyc 25 percent
3. SL upstage, white lighting, SL top light, full percent

Lights used:

CYC: top and bottom lights, brilliant blue, intensity full

#1: Full C.T blue, intensity 95

#2: Brilliant blue, intensity 85

#3: Full C.T blue, intensity 75

Lights Used

#3 tharon Delft blue intensity 70

#4 Golden amber intensity 80

#5 Clearwater intensity 35

#6 Clearwater intensity full

#7 Clearwater intensity 70

#8 Golden amber intensity 70

#9 Golden amber intensity full

#10 Deep straw intensity 90

For my lab recreation of this ad, I used the middle overhead light with a soft focus, one side light from stage left, and one front/side light from stage left. The sidelights were hung at the second level, and all lights were set to a 26-degree range. I am uncertain whether the advertisement uses two lights from the side or not, but I chose to use two because my subject was too dark compared to the ad otherwise.

Ref image via Pinterest

I had some issues with balancing the material properties of the original subject and the rendering engine of the program, but this is as close as possible as I think that I could get it. I ended up needing to add a side light on the left and a top light.

photo from google

Theme: Advertisement/Desire

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