Drama 16 Stage Lighting

2) Photo taken by Nic Christopher at a concert in Maui of Jake Shimabukuro

3) THEME: Portrait or strong central figure

4) DESCRIPTION: This photo was taken in Maui, Hawaii and their Arts and Cultural Center. I was visiting with my patents one night in the center and we saw that my favorite ukulele player, Jake Shimabukuro was playing that night. We got tickets for his concert along with VIP tickets to be able to sit in on his sound check and take pictures before the audience arrived. It was a great opportunity to see what it was like before the show started. I snapped this picture of Jake just before he left the stage as he was playing one of his songs called Me and Shirley T. During the sound check they were also messing around with the lighting and playing with different ques on the light board.

The backdrop of the stage was a full sized projector screen that had a design of his name with different color washes across the back. Jake is by no means a performer that puts on crazy light shows and amazing spectacle for his audience. People generally go to his concerts to enjoy his stories and music. What I liked about this picture is that it shows how fully engrossed Jake is within his music and the lighting is modeling his face and instrument very nicely and it shows lots of dimension with all of the different colors and shadows that are added to his body. I felt that this lighting was simple enough to fit within his style but also “poppy” enough to make the audience get really into the show and the songs that he played for us.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 3/10/12 – 7:38 – In a booth at the Grand Lux Cafe

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was sitting in the Grand Lux Cafe in Roosevelt Mall with my parents when they were here to visit last weekend. The wall has small cut outs into the wall next to every booth. Inside the cut outs are four small lights that shine straight up and illuminate each box. Each box is covered with circular wooden cut outs. The light inside the box was shining up and the light from our table was shining down and made for two very different looks reflecting on the same surface of the circular grating covering the box.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION:  My parents were in town last weekend to visit for my birthday and to see Much Ado. On saturday night  the three of us went to the Grand Lux Cafe for a nice dinner together. We were seated in a booth all the way in the back of the restaurant. The inside of the restaurant is absolutely gorgeous and has high ceilings with grand lighting all over the room. Next to each booth there is a six inch deep cut out into the wall that creates a box recessed into the wall that is about three feet by two feet. The opening is covered with a series of circle cut outs that are touch at the edges that is mostly open and acts like a grate to cover each recessed box. The inside of each box is painted with a reflective gold paint. At the bottom of the boxes there were small lights that were pointed straight up. These lights illuminated reflected off of all surfaces on the inside of the box and made the box appear to glow.

The wood that made up each circle was a dark mahogany type wood that did not absorb much light. The contrast between the dark circles on and the bright glow of the boxes was very intense and made the room look very fancy and very luxurious with all of the glowing gold contrasting with the dark wood. All of the light that was coming out of the box was a very rich amber color and gave a very warm and welcoming feel to the booth and to the room. The light that was hung over our table was shining down wards in a soft white, the color generated by a standard incandescent light bulb. The ambient light from this lamp  reflected straight off of the sheen of the wood stain on the tops of each circle covering the recessed boxes next to our booth. The illusion that was created was very interesting and gave an amazing contrasting appeal. I thought that the illusion was very cool to see this extremely dark wood grating appearing to contain an intense and very saturated ball of lighting that was accented on the top with the harsh white light coming from the lamp above our table.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 3/14/12 – 6:22PM – NAB Black Box Theater

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was woking on the Cat set during 55 on wednesday evening. The garage in the scene shop was open and letting in the sunlight that was casting long shadows all the way into the blackbox.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was working in the blackbox during 55 on wednesday evening when I should have been outside enjoying the absolutely beautiful weather. Just to taunt everyone that was working on the show, and also to help make everyone happy, Lynn raised the garage door in the scene shop to let in the fresh air. As the sun began to lower itself in the sky the shop began to fill with a deep and vibrant flush of sunlight. I left the shop and moved into the black box to work on erecting the pillars.

At around 6:30 I finally looked up from the work I was doing to see that the light had shifted very low in the western sky. I looked toward the shop and the sunlight was coming through the garage door at almost a horizontal line. The sun passed through the shop and the hall way into the blackbox and then onto the house seats that we had constructed on monday afternoon. The light passed through the legs of the risers and the individual legs of each chair and cast long black shadows all the way down the risers. On the surface of each riser I could see where the sun was directly reflecting off of the semi reflective surface and beginning to light up the area where we were working. I had to take a double take and really look at how cool the light was that was shining into the theater. I am not entirely sure if it was the pure beauty of the way the light was entering the theater with its strong contrast and long shadows or if it was the fact that I was actually seeing sunlight, sunlight in the theater of all places. For most of us the sun was somewhat of a novelty as we are stuck inside from sunrise to long after the sun sets.

1. March, 15 – 11:27 PM – Emily Lowe Conference Room

2. Fluorescent lights

3. Sitting in the Emily Lowe Conference room, the fluorescent lights are harsh and overly bright compared to the dark night outside, filling the room with headache-inducing light. Everybody in the room is fully light – there are no problems seeing Athena prance to the door and Devin dance in front of his computer. However, the window outside shows the deep darkness filling the cold night sky. You cannot see anything beyond the window, an empty abyss. The light inside is the opposite, brightening the room to allow for all of the studying. Let the night commence!

2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosie_hardy/6286396590/

3. Portrait/Central Figure

4. I chose this picture because there is no mistaking that the girl is the central figure of the photo. The title of the piece is “All My Nightmares Escaped My Head”. There’s something frighteningly enchanting about this photo. The setting is desolate, an empty parking garage. There are such intensive shadows and harsh lighting. It really intensifies the feeling of fear, and well, nightmares to the image. She is completely alone in the center of complete emptiness. Her nightmares have literally escaped her head, and that is portrayed in the picture.

I also chose this photo because of the strange choice of lighting. A parking garage is not the first place you would think has interesting lighting for a photograph. In most cases, I don’t think the harsh fluorescent lights would work well at all, but in this case it does. It really intensifies the mood of the photo, all of the fear, emptiness, and loneliness.

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2) Michael Segal Photography

3) Portrait or Strong Central Figure

4) These newlyweds are so in love with each other that they cannot even wait to get to their wedding suite to begin the rest of their life together. The two have arrived at their hotel in the wee hours of the morning after the reception and are trying to keep quiet in the dimly lit hallway. The only things lighting the hallway are a few small lamps on the walls. When the husband starts talking loudly and joking around, the wife playfully pushes him against the wall and kisses him to shut him up. Luckily she avoided pushing him into the lamp right next to his head. Though a trip to the Emergency Room would have made for an interesting wedding night, they ended up with a beautifully backlit picture that shows how in love they really are.

2) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/alabamanightowl/5869519232/in/photostream/>

3) THEME: Portrait or Strong Central Figure

4) So I don’t like HDR photography but the lighting coming from the up-right light was too good to pass up.  I found it hard to find photos with such dynamic lighting from multiple sources—everything I found either had a rather general flat sort of daytime lighting, or were a single light source with intense shadowing.  HDR usually serves to reduce or even eliminate the more interesting shadows in a photo, but this particular composition retains distinct shape and locations of the light, partially due to the slightly foggy air.  The tree adds nice texture to the yellow light, though this is only visible on the ground, and not particularly the subject.

2. By Erika Brooks Adickman http://idolator.com/tag/darren-criss/page/3

3. Portrait/Central Figure

4. I love Darren Criss. He’s a great performer and I’m proud to say I’ve been a fan since before he was on Glee. I chose him because I figured he would have good portraits to use for this assignment, but I found a lot of pictures of him in white lighting, and I wanted more color. Then I found this one where he was in Red lighting and it immediately caught my attention because of how different it was from his other pictures, so I chose this one because it is the most interestingly lit picture I could find of Darren Criss.

1. 3/12/12 11:30 a.m. in the Drama Lounge

2. Sunlight coming from outside and hitting Codee’s backpack

3. Sitting in the Drama lounge, I noticed something very peculiar. I’ve always seen Codee’s backpack as this simple blue backpack, but on this day the way the sunlight hit the backpack made the blue on her backpack very vibrant and noticeable, and it was really cool. It made me see how something plain can be made so vivid if you just add some light to it.

2) Shani Shalgi. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1626308709187&set=t.1521240196&type=3&theater

3) Portrait or Strong Central Figure

4) this photo is from a production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat performed at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2010. This is the scene where Joseph is thrown in jail and sings his heart out. the blues and deep magenta help strengthen the mood of the scene. the darker colors enhance the sadness that is jail.