Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Fall Sunset in Vermont:

This stage resembles my interpretation of a fall sunset in Vermont. A lot of images on Google used reddish/orange leaves in front of blue skies, and that is where the inspiration for this came from. I used a soft blue for the cyc and lighted the floor in diagonal directions with the shadows casted to look like the leaves.

Spring Sunset in a Gothic Cathedral:

This stage incorporates the variety of examples given when researching “Spring Sunset Gothic Cathedral.” Some images used a lot of pinks, some used a lot of blues, and there were definitely shadows of windows and architecture. I used two different lights for the background, along with a light blue cyc light. I moved the lights around to overlap the colors, create the pink light in between. I turned on a side light with the shadows resembling window frames of sorts and moved it around to reflect against the cyc as well, similar to how windows would.

Noon on a Hot Summer Day in Hawaii:

I knew for this set I wanted to use light blue to resemble the waters of Hawaii. After looking at some examples of the sun in this tropical place, I used the yellow light to brighten the background with a light green cyc behind it. The side lights are creating shadows to give off the feeling of waves in the water, clear as can be.

Winter Afternoon in North Dakota:

For this set, I wanted to give off a cold, but inviting feeling. A lot of examples on Goggle of Winter Afternoon in North Dakota included a warm sun behind all the snow and mountains. That is what these colors are representing, with a warm orange light on the backdrop with shadows casting to look like trees. The floor is a mixture of blues overlapping to look like snow/ice. The shadow in the background is intentional to feel like the afternoon, as sunset soon approaches.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 4/14/20 around 4:45pm in my front yard in West Hempstead, NY

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The sun was shining very brightly on my friend’s dog. 

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The sun beat down very heavily on my sidewalk where Appa sat, bathing in the sun. He had just eaten a dandelion and the yellow petals sat on his nose. The bright spring sun had painted his fur a radiant brownish-black and glossed over his eyes and made them shine. 

1. Fall Sunset 
   1. Par 64 Medium – Intensity: 100% Gel: Gallo Gold
   2. Source Four – I: 50% G: None 
   3. Source Four – I: 30% G: Special Lavender Gobo: Leaves Foliage
   4. Cyc – Yellow 75%/Red 100% Gradient
2. Spring Sunrise
   1. Source Four – I: 50% G: Blush Pink
   2. Source Four – I: 75% G: 1/2 CTO Gobo: Window Chancery
   3. 8″ Fresnel – I: 50% G: Primary Blue
   4. Source four – I: 50% G: None Gobo: Skylights
   5. Cyc – Green 90%/Magenta 100%
3. Noon, Summer
   
   1. Source Four – I: 75% G: 1/4 CTO
   2. Source Four – I: 75% G: 1/8 CTO
   3. Source Four – I: 100% G: None Gobo: Overgrown Palms
   4. Fresnel – I: 50% G: Industrial Vapor
   5. Cyc – Light Sky Blue@90%/Medium Straw@100%
4. Winter Afternoon
   1. Source Four – I: 75% G: None
   2. Source Four – I: 100% G: None Gobo: Snowfall 2
   3. Par 64 (Wide Lens) – I: 100% G: Brilliant Blue
   4. Par 64 (Medium Lens) – I: 50% G: 1/2 CTB
   5. Cyc – Light Sky Blue@100%/1/3 CTB@100%

Time/Date/Location: 7:00 PM, 4/5/20, Gray, Maine

Objective Description: Sunset over little sebago lake reflecting off the water and clouds

Subjective Description: The reflection of the light off the water which created a very bright red and white light, reflecting off the clouds was heavy pink and blue. With the red and orange in the sky it created a very beautiful effect.

Theme: Isolation
Source: Myself
Description: The day before I left New York to come home to Maine I went to Eisenhower park with a couple of friends, and found this outdoor theater. Normally what should be filled with concerts and events was completely open and unlocked, almost abandoned.

Virtual Lighting Lab

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 4/7/20 Ocean city NJ doc into the bay 

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: – Sitting on the doc with hand made stainglass 

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: My sister and I got extremely bored, and we started to make fake stainglass with tissue paper. Sitting on the dock, we would hold the stained glass up to the light and watch the water. The sun would force the color through the tissue paper and project the color onto the water. you could also say we were making our gels 

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 4/7/2020 around 8:45pm in my room in West Hempstead, NY

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: All the lights in my room were off except for my fish tank light.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: After closing my blinds and shutting off my lights, I noticed that the only light in my room was that of Betta O’Rourke’s tank (my foster fish). He was swimming around gracefully as the yellowish-greenish light from above his tank lit up a corner of my room. 

• Lights:
  • ETC Source 4 36 degree in Deep Amber at 50% intensity
  • 2 ETC Source 4 36 degree with no gel at 40% intensity (gobos)
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree in Deep Orange at 30% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree with no gel at 24% intensity
  • 6″ Fres in Surprise Pink at 100% intensity
  • Cyc Light in Deep Straw at 20% intensity
  • Cyc Light in Light Steel Blue at 58% intensity
• Description:
  • Looking at my research of sunsets in Vermont, I was heavily inspired by golden hour, the sun in one’s face, and the long shadows that are cast around this time. I also looked at paintings by people native to Vermont and the colors that they used to depict this time of day. 

• Lights:
  • 2 ETC Source 4 36 degree in Off Color Straw at 30% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 36 degree in Surprise Pink at 70% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 36 degree in Off Color Straw at 20% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree with no gel at 20% intensity
  • ETC Source 4 26 degree with no gel at 60% intensity
  • Par 64 in Gallo Gold at 10% intensity
  • 8″ Fres in Surprise Pink at 100% intensity
  • Cyc Light in No Color Straw at 20% intensity
• Description:
  • When I think of cathedrals, I think of high windows with lots of light streaming in, and stained glass. A lot of the cathedrals I was looking at had stained glass in various jewel tones, and I liked the purples ones the best. I envisioned someone walking into the cathedral down the aisle as the sun shone in from one side of the cathedral more brightly than the other due to the sunrise. 

• Lights:
  • Cyc Light in Daylight Blue at 100& intensity
  • Par 64 in Pale Gold at 100% intensity
  • 6″ Fres in Light Straw at 65% intensity
• Description:
  • I knew about this phenonmenon in that occurs exclusively during the summer in Hawaii called the Lahaina noon which is when the sun passes directly above certain islands. It either creates really weird shadows immediatly below an object or non at all, which creates the videogame-like effect that I tried to replicate here.

4) Winter afternoon in North Dakota

• Lights:
  • 2 Par 64 in No Color Blue at 100% intensity
  • Par 64 in No Color Blue at 50% intensity
  • Par 64 in No Color Blue at 40% intensity
  • 4 ETC Source 4 36 degree with no gel at 100% (gobos)
  • Cyc Light in No Color Blue at 70%
• Description:
  • Winters in North Dakota are incredibly harsh. I tried to replicate the snow moving on the ground during a windy afternoon, and the stark brightness of the sky due to the snow’s white reflection.