Drama 16 Stage Lighting

3/7 Lighting Observation

Objective: I was driving down a long, sun-lit road in Garden City. The pavement was lit by the sun, but covered in shadows from moving cars and the surrounding trees on either side of the road.

Subjective: The country music blaring in my car mixed with the bright sunshine created a music video-like scene in my mind. As I was driving, I pictured such a music video with myself in the car, (but probably a convertible), and the sunlight just shining down on me and my car, creating a vibrant and happy scene that was totally Hollywood.

03/06/2024 – 12:40 am – 9th floor, Enterprise Tower

Objective: View from the 9th-floor window of the eerie nightlife outside.

Subjective: Most of the individual lights from the neighboring tower’s windows are turned off, with only the street lamps down below lighting up the surrounding area. The rain slowly decreases and creates this haze around the street lamps, creating a more darker and eerie tone to the night life around campus.

Via Instagram, Jonathan Sims

For this post I chose to focus on how refraction and relfection can create entirely novel looks entirely different from any other methods of light manipulation. This is utterly fascinating as a basic, unedited photo, can look like a kaleidescope. This is something that, if given the time and materials, I would love to incorporate into a lighting design.

This is an image I got off of the internet; it felt bizarre because you can see each strand of lightning in the image. I also like the color of the lightning as well.

Source: Pinterest

I picked this image mainly because of the shadows being projected around the room and the chaotic feeling it creates. The casing on the light acts as a sort of 360 degree gobo. It also creates a kind of trippy effect with the way the shadows are sharper toward the center of the photo and get blurry toward the edges creating what seems to me like a kind of illusion of a magnified lens when it’s really just the spherical shape of the light source.

This photo was online, from an online website called girllikear.life. They are an online store selling gobos. For me, gobos really work well to create bizarre lighting, just because you can take something and make it look really unnatural and jarring. For example, the human is this photo looks offputting with the holes in the skin made from the gobo. Also the black and white color makes it seem even more dramatic and bizarre.