Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) 12:45pm, March 6, 2013, Outside of Student Center Parking Lot

2) It was a cloudy day, but during this time, I saw the sun come out and you could see the clouds passing by in the sky. The sun was in the middle of the sky where I was standing.

3) The sun unexpectedly came out on this cloudy day. It was a surprise to me because I knew the weather for the day was not going to be good and normally when it snows, the sky is a dark grey and cloudy. Seeing the bright yellow, sun put a new spin to the weather that day and brought a positive few minutes to the weather.

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2. Photo from http://www.thesefleetingmoments.com/index.php?showimage=40
3. Theme: Cold
4. This quality of light in this picture is cool and eery. It shows the picture of a desert road which would normally be sweltering hot. On the contrary the coming storm and it’s clouds filters the light making what would naturally be a warm amber into a blue and green tinted shade. The shadows are undefined and scattered making the ground hazed and dark. The light shining through the clouds is a cool blue creating shades of grays and blues across the sky. When I look at this picture I picture the wind blowing cool air down my back and the shivering anticipation one gets in night air of winter. What is especially interesting is that the light looks cold in a climate and location that is normally extremely hot.

It was Tuesday afternoon and I was walking to class. It was a grey, cloudy sort of day, where all the colors seemed muted somehow, except one plant covered in bright majenta flowers.

It had been cloudy all week, and the week was only two days long so far. The light seemed to turn everything a little bit grayer than usual as though the world was covered in a layer of soot. The entire world looked dull, tired. But as I was walking I saw a bush covered in magenta flowers, and for some reason, the clouds hadn’t coated them in soot. The color was as bright as on sunny day, and seemed all the brighter for the dreary backdrop. I couldn’t help but smile. The color of these flowers must have been just the right hue to catch and reflect the light that made it through the clouds. One beautiful thing on a dreary day.

2. http:/texasscribbler.com/images/Thunderheads.jpg, outer space blog

3. unreal

4. Unreal lighting seems mystic to me, something from another world that is entirely foreign to us. To achieve this, the lighting unifies the world in a dim blueish wash. The shapes of this other world are surprisingly similar and react the same way that it does on earth. This unreal landscape is actually created by clouds but its a picturesque we wouldn’t see. Being above the clouds puts you in another realm but light seems to unify them. I would say that light is a universal quality that is going to act in the same way everywhere but in creating unreal lighting, its more your color and brightness choices. The dim quality adds mystery that anything unreal and unfamiliar would have.

1) 4/21/12 – 7:35 – Behind the NAB in the parking lot looking East.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was working in on burning the proscenium for Spring Awakening on Saturday. Bryan and I were standing just outside of the NAB as the sun went down. the sunset was colorful and shining red and orange. There were ver few clouds. There were low clouds that were flying over head at a very rapid pace. The clouds that were low were a dark purple color and had a high contrast to the bright sky above.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Bryan and I were working late into the afternoon trying to get the proscenium for Spring Awakening done with its burn treatment. We stood outside with a butane torch scorching the wood for an hour and a half in the parking lot. As we worked we were able to watch the sunset. It was a beautiful day with hardly any clouds and the sky was nice and blue. The sunset was beautiful and the colors were brilliant. there were many trees in the way however we both noted the intense yellow and orange colors that were radiating from behind the trees. As the sunset continued to build to an intense and stunning climax we had to stop working simply to sit and enjoy the spectacle that the sun was offering us. The few sky was still a rich blue scattered with a few crispy white clouds all throughout the horizon. Everything in the sky seemed bright and happy until the breeze picked up.

When the breeze picked up it seemed to bring very low lying clouds along with it that began soaring rapidly above faster than I could walk. They seemed to be so light to be so highly influenced that much from the light breeze in the air. The clouds were very low lying and probably were not much higher than the tops of the high rises on the other side of the campus. All of a sudden I noticed the one very interesting part of the clouds that were zipping past us. These clouds were very dark and almost had a purplish tint to them. What seemed to be incongruent about these clouds was that despite how light they were in nature they were dark, which I generally associate with gigantic storm clouds. After studying the clouds for a few minutes I realized that the sun had reached a point on the horizon that it was still fully illuminating the sky and world around us, however it was just beginning to cast a long shadow of darkness over campus which each of those clouds was falling under. It was cool to look up and realize that the curvature of the earth was casting a gigantic shadow over us and I was able to see the light areas and the areas in shadow in the sky.

17 April, 2012
South Campus
Around  5:00 pm

I’ve just gotten off work and am walking from the eastern side of south campus towards Emily Lowe. It’s one of the insanely hot days we had earlier this week, the sun shining bright and hard. Squinting up at the sky, I notice something I had never actively noticed before: the clouds between me and the sun have shadows.

For whatever reason, this really surprised me. I’ve been on many planes before and have noticed when we’re still flying low that patches of the green down below is covered with a cloud’s shadow, but it is so immense that you don’t notice you are in fact in a shadow when you’re on the ground. But when I looked up at the sky and saw the outer edges of the fluffy white clouds strikingly brighter than the center of the cloud facing away from the sun, I realized that I had never actively made notice of the fact that clouds have shadows. It makes perfect sense – objects cast shadows, mass casts shadows. But for whatever reason I never connected that to clouds. Which means that every single drawing I did as a kid with the yellow sun taking up one corner and a tree the other with some white clouds in the middle have been inaccurate – there should have been some grey in those clouds, even in the perfect spring or summer scenes I drew. This realization was surprisingly thought provoking for me. I should probably pay more attention to my surroundings so I don’t miss these obvious things.

1. Wednesday March 28^th 8:30 am Hempstead turnpike
2. It’s a cloudy morning so the sun is trying to shine through them.
3. It’s enough to brighten everything but there is a dim tone to everything. The sun is trying its hardest to break through the rolling clouds but only making a difference on the edges. Where you can see glows of light it’s a bright auburn that brings life to everything making the edges of the clouds seem as if they are on fire. There is a sharp contrast between the light quality above the cloud and below. It’s almost up lifting but then the clouds are coming over and blocking all of the sunlight creating a gloomy start to the day

2) Flickr user:idg Vibrant Road http://www.flickr.com/photos/magdalengreen/2508282826/

3) vibrant, colorful, saturated

4) Some lighting can play up the setting or subject and some can tone it down. When I hear vibrant and colorful, everything is bright. The colors are jumping off the page as you see above. This kind of supernatural view does happen only on the clearest of days when you take a minute to appreciate what is in front of you. These crisp and contrasting colors are dues to the sunlight being so strong. With so many colors, both white and black are heightened stressing each variation of color in between. The saturation also comes from the variation through each patch of different color. The sheer bright quality makes anyone who is viewing smile.

1)  2/28/2012 – 6:22 – Just outside admissions building walking toward “Netherspan.”

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking back to my room and the sun had just set. The sky was blue and orange and the clouds were white and pointed outward in the sky. The blue and orange light split behind the netherspann so the upper sky was blue and the lower sky was orange.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking back to my room after class on tuesday to meet my roommate for dinner. I was quickly rushing from Lowe to the turnpike in order for me to cross the street and get to the netherlands as quickly as possible. I happened to glance up towards the “Netherspann” and then back down; I had to take a double take to look back up at the sky. The sun had just set and all of the typical “sunset colors” were strewn across the sky. The muted oranges, looking like watercolors were streaked across the lowest part of the sky. In the upper part of the sky there was a muted blue color that looked to be of the same watercolor look. From my vantage point, the “Netherspann” was dividing the sky; the lower part of the sky was the orange and upper was blue. The structure seemed to fall right in between the two colors to seem them together flawlessly.

What seemed to really enhance this image was the clouds. The clouds were light but covered the entirety of the sky. from where I was standing the clouds were able to catch the light from the sky in the perfect pattern that make the sky literally look like it was exploding from the lowest part upward, into the blue of the sky above me. This pattern looked like a starburst or like a metal explosion shooting white shards across the late afternoon sky. The clouds were hardly thick enough to notice; the moon was clearly seen above me but it was simply the angle that the sun was catching the clouds that made them glow white in all directions. It was a magnificent scene and one of the most beautiful sights I could ever imagine seeing (over Hempstead at least).

Friday, Jan 6, afternoon.

I was walking back to my dorm from class, and looked up at the bleak grey sky. It was the kind of cloudy sky where there are no individual clouds, merely a mass of flat grey light, dreary, to say the least. But as I looked at it, a flock of birds crossed overhead, appearing in silhouette only.

Yet somehow they transformed the sky into an old black and white film. The silhouettes of the birds swooping and diving at one another reminicent of WWII planes cutting accross the sky. There was no color overhead, but instead of making the scene gloomy, it drew a sort of focus the the shapes and the movement of the scene. While the monochromatic lighting may have made the day look bleak at first glance, it transformed the sky into an old movie screen, where silhouettes became the projected film.