Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) Outside Spiegle Theater, Thursday 4/10 at 2:00 PM.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was leaving my Styles class from the Spiegle and intended to read over a scene with Matt Engle on our way to Modern, but I really couldn’t see anything due to the sudden change in light and my left eye watered the whole walk.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Because of the sudden brightness and flood of light, my eyes went into shock. An immediate layer of water filled them, particularly the left eye, causing me to have incredible difficulty reading the script that I held in front of me. Due to this experience, I felt as though I was floundering, with nothing tangible to grasp and ground me besides the light. The immersion in bright light felt very much like a flood, and my eyes reacted similarly in this imagery when they watered. I felt like I was drowning and floating, a positive and simultaneously negative experience, that was not settled until I had walked inside another building. Every person I walked by could have been a fish in this sea of tears, or a particle floating along. Everything was distant, blurry, and uncertain; I was immediately immersed in the uncanny without a choice. It made me hyper aware of how much we all listen with our eyes.

1) Wednesday April 3, at 8:15 PM in the NAB.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was backstage in the black box waiting for my cue during the Don Juan tech run. It was the scene just before what’s known as “the rape scene.” I was sitting on a bench, alone, under one blue light.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: This was not only a great lighting moment to experience, but it was also just a really beautiful moment for me to have backstage, especially in preparation for my upcoming scene. As I was focusing on getting the tears flowing, I noticed the single blue light that was the only source lighting me. Because I was in costume, I identified with a subject of Picasso’s blue period paintings, which was so exciting. The light covering of blue washed over me like the ocean; I was floating in the water, unable to grasp anything tangible. Normally I don’t enjoy feeling that unsteady, but this was soothing. The light was like a calm lotion that could give me the right tranquil experience to be focused and really let everything go in the next scene.

2) http://www.iwa.tv/Default.aspx?pageId=1152733

3)  This purple light dancing with the smoke is stunning. It is very poisonous and magical at the same time. I expect some mystical creature to pop out of it in any moment.