Drama 16 Stage Lighting

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2. Burn Night Blur – By Flickr user Peanut

3. Nightlife

4. This photograph was taken at burn night of the Burning Man Festival in 2006. It is a yearly, week long arts and community festival in the Nevada Desert. The event is colorful, crazy, inclusive, and most of all bright. During the day, the light is all too-bright hot hot sun, washing everything out with its heat. Though colorful during the day, the participants really come alive with neon excellence after dark. On this night the participants are front lit by a bright orange fire, giving them all an warm tangerine glow. They all have manic smiles and bright neon glow necklaces laced around their bodies. They are bright against a black night sky, throwing their arms into the air with exuberance, and moving too fast for cameras to catch them. Their purple and orange blurs can exist only in in the night, coming to life as the sun sets. Their nightlife is characterized by far too many clashingly bright shades of teal, blue, violet and gold. Bright, rich shades that live for the night. Bright, rich people that live for the night.

1.) Thursday Apr. 14th 2011, 5:20 P.M. Lowe 108.

2.) The glare from the setting sun.

3.) The sun wasn’t really setting, but it was getting very low in the sky, and it was in a position that caused a very intense glare through the windows of the doors in 108. The lights were on but rather dim, so there was this rosy, warm glow in the room that felt like something you’d see in a country cottage in summer. It made me feel like spring had actually come, which was nice. It was a healthy, natural sort of lighting, the kind you’d try very hard to recreate with specific colors onstage.

1) Thursday Feb. 3rd 2011, 6:58 P.M.

2) The artificial street lamps lighting the NAB.

3) Approaching the NAB for rehearsal, I saw how the orange-yellow glow of the street lamps played off the shiny surface of the building and contrasted with the bright white fluorescent light coming from inside. It felt clinical in a way, but warm. Something about it fostered introspection. It made the bright light in the door, generally something positive and promising, look unwelcoming.