NAB Blackbox during Intimations for Saxophone, photo taken by Brian Ballweg
3) THEME: Modeling
4) DESCRIPTION: Because of the textures of the masks and the shadows created by what seems to be a single light source, this is a good example of modeling. The picture is made much more interesting by the contorted positions of the subjects.
1) February 22nd, 2011 in the NAB Blackbox
2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The inner doors of the blackbox are wide open, but the outer doors are closed. Light is showing through around every edge and the seam of he doors. The color between the inner and outer doors is lit and painted with a warm yellow color, but the light escaping through the seams is a very bright bluish light.
3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION:It seems as though the inner doors are protecting from the unknown beyond them. The outside seems like it would be otherworldly and forbidden, but the doors look as though they are begging to be opened.
1) Thursday Feb. 10th 2011, 7:20 P.M. N.A.B. Black Box.
2) The cast of War of the Roses lit with a dying lantern.
3) During rehearsal tonight, while blocking the scene in which Joan of Arc summons the fiends, Royston had Avery turn off all the lights in the black box and gave Shanna a very large and powerful incandescent flashlight. The goal was to make the appearance of the demons terrifying, and it worked, at least from where I was in the mezzanine. The lamp was bright enough to light Shanna well and barely illuminate the “demons,” and the shadows cast made the large space feel claustrophobic. There was a definite orange tint to the light that made it feel very intimate. The battery in the lamp started to die, and the shadows on the faces of the actors (all but three of us) lengthened and darkened, creating an even more hellish feeling.
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.
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