Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) http://www.mousebuzz.com/forum/year-million-dreams/34342-annie-leibovitz-cinderella-photo.html

2) Portrait or Strong Central Figure

3) This photograph is part of the ad series that photographer Annie Leibovitz shot for the Disney theme parks.

Though the scenery was perhaps edited (as are many things in advertisements) the lighting was still done on set.

The lighting is murky and mysterious, Cinderella is lit from the back and her right side only, casting shadows and darkness in the front of her. I feel that the lighting really captured the enchanted feeling of Cinderella; dawn is slowing rising the horizon and the mist is rising around her. Cinderella is the clear focal point of the photo, so much that it actually takes a second glance to notice the spotlight on the small glass slipper in the center of the photograph. She is down in the right hand corner of the photograph, a place the is usually the last place people look, yet the dim lighting that illuminates her dress has enough pull to draw the viewers attention.

3/14/12 around 1:30 am in my bed

I was all snuggled in bed with Mater and then I noticed the light from my alarm clock reflecting on the bottom side of the desk lamp I put on my dresser (which sits next to my bed).

This may not really seem like a lighting moment to anyone else really but I used this desk lamp as my object for the 78 project so I spent a VERY long time looking at this lamp in different types of light, but I never really saw it in this one before. I literally could not close my eyes and just stop looking at it (regardless of how much my body wanted me to). The lighting just totally changed the way I looked at this lamp. the under lighting made the lamp look angry, dark, and a little sad.

1) March 15, 2012 about 3:00pm in Breslin Hall

2)Lights coming through the blinds of an accent wall in Breslin

3) Today I was in Modern and Royston was prepping the computer to watch the German Expressionist film “Metropolis” I turned around to look at the back wall. I never noticed that there was a pale blue accent wall in this room of Breslin before, which was the first startling thing about this observation. Also, the light was streaming through the windows, making them appear dark by contrast and spilling out against the walls. I thought it was funny, as we have spent so many class periods talking about the Expressionists, and were about to watch one of their films, that a prime example of expressionistic lighting (angles and shadows) was right behind us the entire time.

The lighting also had that “film noir” feel to it, which I felt expressed the dramatic feeling of the sometimes drawn-out Modern Drama class. It was a very simple lighting, and lighting that has been done countless time before, but the fact that it so perfectly represented the mood of the room was a coincidental added bonus.

1) 3/14/12 – 8:30 pm – On the LIRR heading back to Mineola Station

2) A flashing light seen out the window of the train as it was moving

3) As I was on my way back to campus from the city, I sat on the LIRR looking out the window on the verge of falling asleep when suddenly, a light flashes. I was so confused at first. The light was so bright and quick that it looked like lightning. I instantly sat up and stared intensely out the window to see if this flash would happen again. It did. I have no idea what caused the flashes, but it continued to intrigue me as I kept staring out the window even harder to try and figure out what was making it. I still don’t know and would like to find out if anyone knows what creates the bright flashes.

It was Sunday night at around 2 in the morning when some idiot in my dorm building burned popcorn and the alarms drove us all out of the building to await the permission of the fire department to go back inside. Standing outside  in the cold, I noticed the way the emergency lights from the fire truck were flashing and lighting up the area.

In frigid air under an almost starless sky, the kind only found near big cities, a bunch of listless college students were milling about. All around them the trees were being lit up in blues and reds flashing and pulsing like strobe lights in the dark. The light hit the bare branches of the trees drawing the outlines of the empty space, making it seem deeper, darker.  Even beneath the street lamp, the colors from the emergency vehicles danced on the pole and played in the branches. As the wind blew the branches seemed to jump from place to place rather than sway under the influence of this unnatural lighting.

http://www.bigpicture.in/colorful-reed-flute-caves-photography-of-china/

Theme: saturated, colorful

This is a picture from the Reed Flute Caves in China. I chose this photo because I found it interesting how they had used fake lighting to make the already incredible natural phenomenon more striking. The lights help to display the interesting formations and textures of the cave, and also reflect off of the water so the cave seems even more mystical.

DATE-TIME-LOCATION: March 8th, about 7pm, Vander Poel Hall

OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The awful, never-changing fluorescent light in the hallway is reflecting off of a newly-installed large pane of glass in the lounge door. The white concrete and drywall walls are reflected and through the windows that make up the outside wall of the room, you can see lights from some other residence halls and the parking lots.

SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: As I was leaving to grab some dinner at Dutch, I found myself literally stopped in my tracks, staring at the lounge door completely bewildered and feeling a bit like I had stepped into the Twilight Zone.  The only (and completely) logical situation was that they had put windows into the lounge door finally, so you didn’t constantly feel awkward opening the door, feeling like you might be about to get an eyeful. I’m not sure if it was because I had recently awakened or because I’ve grown so accustomed to the way the building looks, but I was seriously confused by what I was seeing.  It crossed my mind that maybe someone had stuck a mirror on the door, but that didn’t make sense because there was too much depth to what I was seeing. It kind of felt like I had x-ray vision, that I was looking into something I wasn’t supposed to see, or that some kind of mysterious and strange tunnel had appeared before me like something right out of a Harry Potter book. For a surprisingly large amount of moments, the three-dimensional world that I knew had something extra, almost another dimension, a strange kind of mystique. I had to take a few steps forward and shake my head before it really clicked what was going on.

http://gabrielwickbold.carbonmade.com/projects/2278650#39

Photographer: Gabriel Wickbold–Sexual Color Collection

THEME: Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

DESCRIPTION: Despite the fact that the lights illuminating this subject is a “plain” white, it is this light that reveals a subject that is truly vibrant and colorful. First, obviously, there are many different colors present in the photo: purples, reds, yellows, blues, pinks, and oranges. The red and the dark purple at the top of the model’s head are extremely saturated in color, as well as some of the blues.  All of these colors and the motion of the paint splashing and flying through the air also lend a certain vibrancy.  Using an entirely dark background and this very bright light brings the focus to the model and the color, and allows the nuances in the paint to be seen.  What I find most interesting, however, is what this light, set, and concept reveal about the photographer taking this photo. His choices reveal him to be a vibrant and colorful personality that is saturated with creativity and the spice of life. He isn’t airbrushing anything; there’s no digital enhancement. He is stripping down his subjects, literally, and letting the color and their bodies do the talking. Clearly, the artist is very open; there’s really no way to control the paint once it’s flung from a bucket or with a brush, but he’s excited to see what comes about freely. This picture in particular (as compared to the rest of the collection) seems especially vibrant because the expression of the model is so apparent, and it injects even more life into the picture.

2) http://destroywithcare.blogspot.com/2011/11/holi-color-festival.html\

3) Theme: Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4) I picked this picture because it is very colorful, vibrant, and saturated, not only with the lighting, but with the people themselves. This is Holi, a Hindu “festival of colors”. The cloud of yellow and purple dust is nicely caught and illuminated by the sun, and they are cuite nice against each other. The contrast in the outer pink and purple against the bright yellow make a nice effect which is pleasing to the eyes. Also, there is deep contrast between the sun hitting the people from above, and the deep shadows created under them, and with their layered clothing.

Photo taken by a user named Racket on this website – http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=9482/

Theme: Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

When I look at this picture, I think of vibrant purification. The water looks so crisp, regardless of the variety of colors in the water. The colors are so bright and vivacious. The blotches fill the floor but this is not the focus of the picture. My eye is immediately brought to the drip midair. I notice the reflection of all the blotches within this drip. Somehow it takes all these colors in the picture and fits it all into this tiny drip. Maybe inside of that drip is another reflection, like an endless mirror. It keeps getting smaller and smaller. The ripples in the water affect the shape of the color and disrupt the proportion. These blotches are covered by the pool of water, using the water as lamination. Thought the colors cannot be manipulated themselves, the water on top of it can. As a result, the water can magnify, disorient, and affect the colors. The color is dripping off the picture.