Lighting Observation #10
1.) Thursday Mar. 3rd 2011, 1:45 P.M. Spiegel Theater.
2.) Phone light used on stage during Styles class.
3.) Today during Styles class a group doing Beckett’s “Play” wanted to practice their scene with the spot-lighting effect that Beckett calls for, and so three of us volunteered to use the “flashlights” on our cell phones to light them each only when they were talking. The whole building was dark except for the faces of the actors. The isolating effect of the light helped them with the scene, and the rapid shifts in the room helped their classmates focus on a very difficult-to-follow scene. It was very unnerving. The color of the light too, the bright bluish-white of camera flash bulbs, helped add to the sense of bleakness.