Drama 16 Stage Lighting

DATE/TIME/LOCATION: Wednesday 4/27/2022 Residential Side of Campus 3:11pm

OBJECTIVE: It’s a sunny warm afternoon. The trees are shifting in the breeze and the shadows from the trees are reflecting the movement of the trees.

SUBJECTIVE: I like watching the branches and how they move and dance in the breeze. I like the gradient of different intensities of shadows on the ground. The shadows of the treasure reminiscent of the roots that are below the surface of the ground. It feels like I’m looking at the ancestry of the trees that are near each other because you can. see how their shadows are intertwined.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: April 25, 2022, 5:30 PM, Constitution

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I turned on the big light instead of using my lamp while I was on a Zoom call on my computer

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: After months of suffering from wanting to be seen but not being able to see people on the zoom call, I decided to try turning on the big light in my dorm instead of the nice lamp I normally use. Since the light wasn’t coming from directly behind me, I could finally see the other participants without any glare.

2) ATTRIBUTE: First Light Wildlife Habitats, photo by Radim Schreiber

3) THEME: Wildcard

4) DESCRIPTION: I like this photo because the flowers give the picture scale, showing that what looks like such a tiny light to us is a whole world of light for the firefly. The petals of the flower are so thin that the light shines right through them, making them and the rest of the flower glow. I also like how the light bounces off of the other flowers.

1. Date / Time / Location: April 26th / 7:29 pm / John Cranford Adams Playhouse
2. Objective Description: Currently, I am sitting in one of the downstairs dressing rooms of Hofstra’s large playhouse. There is one singular dim-lit rectangular light illuminating the entire room. In front of me sits a vanity mirror with two parallel sides of light bulbs emanating warm light.
3. Subjective Description: The cool-tone of the ceiling light provides a nice contrast to the warm lighting from the vanity before me. Although I am usually one who disdains warm lighting indoors, I feel like this low-intensity lighting from the vanity is helping me to relax before traveling to the stage. The closet within the room doesn’t have a light, but again I feel that the low quantity of lights is helping me to focus only on what’s in front of me / what matters.

1. April 23, 2022, 2:12pm
2. Second floor of the library in front of the big window facing Hofstra Hall
3. It is a bright but somewhat gloomy day. The big windows letting in natural light makes everything around me appear bright, but when I look out towards the sky it is mostly cloud covered and a more muted blue. Against the white sky and the large white building (Hofstra Hall) in front of me, the greenery of the trees and the blue “pride and purpose” flags on the light poles pop out.

1.  Theme: Wild Card
2.  Attributes: pinterest.com
3. Description: I love the haze and shadows in this photo. The dark coloring creates a silhouette effect on the people holding hands, and the fog in front of them makes them appear almost ghost-like. What stands out most to me, however, is the glow in their eyes. Overall, these elements work together to create an unsettling and eery photo that I really appreciate. It makes me curious about who these people are, what their relationship is, and what they are up to.

DATE – TIME – LOCATION : April 19, 2022 at 6:40 pm, Lowe 108

OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION : The sun sets in a cloudy sky, creating an orange like filter on the entire sky. The lights are all off, so the building is flooded only with outside light.

SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION :  The dusty orange sunset creates an unsettling feeling inside the studio. The usual vibrant colors of the sunset are diminished, and the weather creates a precarious feeling. The darkness of the studio increases as the sun continues to set, creating tall shadows all along the room. The structure of the archway outside the back of the studio makes the silhouette of the shadows even more pronounced. It seems as if the day is setting faster inside than it is outside. This winding down feeling emulates the energy level of the students as they reach the end of their academic day.  

1. Tuesday, April 19th, around 7:30am. Looking out my dorm window from my bed.
2. The sunrise just above the Netherlands and shining through the tress, into my dorm.
3. I woken up to my roommate’s 7:30 alarm, and as I flipped over to check what time it was I saw the sunrise. I sat and looked at it for a second. It was a breezy morning, so the trees were swaying, but that movement didn’t even cause there to be shadows across my dorm. The orange rays shining through would just be hidden for a split second before I could see them again. The image was quite striking and I really took a moment to appreciate how a sunrise changes as the Sun makes its way up to the sky, but also that the sunrise can be different every morning. Then I went back to sleep.

4/16/22 – 4:36 pm – Mandie’s Magical Marketplace in Lewes, De

Objective Description: On a lower shelf, right underneath a window, there are glass bowls filled with a gem called “Angel Aura.” These bowls are organized from left to right in rainbow order. There are bowls of Red, Rose, Orange, Yellow, Apple, and Light blue. The sunlight hitting the angel aura makes them shine bright and cascade a rainbow of colors along the walls.

Subjective Description: As the sunlight peers into the window of the quaint shop a cascade of colors is blasted onto the shelves. These pieces of the earth are meeting the sunlight unlike many of their relations. These angels shine independently in different colors but shine as one to make a harmony of light within this small shop. Each piece shines elegantly with a pearl-like effect on each of its colors. The rainbow of mellow light plastered along the walls creates a serene feeling in the shop.

1. DATE / TIME / LOCATION: April 21st, 12:30AM, Spiegle Theater
2. OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The department times was setting up their set and the projector screen was down, with a blue light covering it. The stage was dimly lit by amber light and the house lights where completely dark.
3. SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The blue background and dim lighting created a very cinematic atmosphere, almost as if we where all about to sit down and watch a movie. The blue light coming from behind the two subjects on stage also created a glowing affect around both of them, which made the subjects seem almost ethereal.