Drama 16 Stage Lighting

4/19, 10:00pm, Crumbl Cookies

Objective description: The room is very bright with the bright white paint and tiles combined with bright white LED lights. The lighting coming off of the order screens is another light adding to the already bright lights in the store.

Subjective description: The lights are reflecting so strongly off of the tile that my eyes hurt; the amount of white in the store is almost giving me a headache. This annoyance from the lighting is adding to the pressure of not knowing what I want to order. However, the fully white walls and light makes the store look very new and clean, so I trust the cookies I’m about to get are going to be delicious.

4/23/24 – Outside of Breslin Hall – 9:50 PM

Objective: The full moon is shining brightly down from the sky, but it looks slightly fuzzy due to the clouds, and its moon rays are dispersed.

Subjective: The moon is very bright tonight, and on a clear day, it would be a perfect photograph. Yet, the moist air and the misty clouds in the sky cause its appearance to spread. The moon, usually so detailed, is just another white light in the sky.

1) A Fall sunset in New England

For this lighting, I used 4 lights coming from the downstage left corner, the larger 3 in the color Deep Straw and the smallest in Medium Yellow. I also included two wide washes of Light Red light from the upper quarter marks and two wide spreads of Moss Green with a breakup gobo from the center top light. For a final touch, I added a Golden Amber light on stage right that pointed to the back left corner.

The four lights I used pointing to the back right corner create an orangey sun, and each larger beam creates warm sun rays that you see during the fall. I used the red lights to create the reddish tableau that we see in New England forests, but I still used green in the gobo to create the leafy outlines to represent the change from green to red. Finally, I used orange light in the upper left corner to fill out the rest of the space and create a similar look to an orange sunset.

2) Spring sunrise in a Gothic Cathedral

For this lighting look, I used Gold Tint on the upper cyc lights and Parry Sky Blue on the lower cyc lights. I used Mist Blue on the center and corner lights; the center one is at full and the corner lights are at 75 percent power. The light at quarter on stage left is Medium Blue Green, and the light at quarter on stage right is Folies Pink. Both of these lights are at 75 percent power. Last, I have two wide-spread Moss Green lights coming from each side of the stage with the Lines gobo.

For this light, I was inspired by photos of Gothic cathedrals that I found online. I created an arch with the front lights with whitish light to represent the sunshine coming in, and the pink and blues to represent the spring colors. The cyc is lit with gold and blue sunrise colors to fill the space. The green on the sides represents the trees on either side of the cathedral, and the lines gobo is used to mimic the architecture.

3) Noon on a hot Summer day in Africa

For this lighting, I used No Color Blue for the three lights coming from the upper right corner, and also for the lights shining onto the cyc. The cyc is lit by Light Sky Blue on top and bottom. Medium Yellow is used on the two lights in the downstage corners, and a Moss Green wash comes from the upper left corner.

I chose the cyc color to be light blue to mimic the bright blue sky on a hot summer day, and I shone white lights on the cyc to create the look of clouds traveling across the sky. The three white lights shining onto the subject are Jacob’s Ladder of the sun’s rays, and the green light from the upper left corner creates a wash on the floor for grass. The yellow coming from the corners could represent dry grass, dirt, or sand.

4) Winter afternoon in North Dakota

This lighting look is created with three lights in Full CT Blue coming from stage right, and additional top lighting in Full CT Blue coming from the quarter marks. The cyc is lit with Light Sky Blue on top and bottom.

This is a very minimalistic lighting look, but I was inspired by a snowy yet sunny day often seen in the winter time. The sun is shining on the subject, and the additional top light creates the same dispersing effect that clouds create. Then of course, the cyc is lit blue like the sky.

9:34pm, sidewalk to c-square.

White Light from the lampost shines through tree branches

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After a long tiresome day, the walk back to home is a journey within itself. And yet, it also shines as brightly as the day with white light streaming down onto the pavement, scrambles of harsh light shining between the trees leaves creating constellation-like spots of stars below my feet. The white light radiates out from behind the tree, the shadows and highlights of the branches develop halos circling the lamplight bright beam. Like a false moon to light the path among the stars.

12:35am, inside Adams Playhouse lobby.

Dark lobby with lamposts outside casting dim white light. Silhouettes of the door panels are cast on the walls.

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A tranquil space of comfortable solitude in the late shadows of the night. Against the cold tiles, I sat and watched the long beams of dim light cascade along the floors and up the walls illuminating the glass pane structures of the window. Within the lobby’s silence and darkness, there seems like nothing but time in the slumbering theatre.

Photo taken by me

#1/2/3/4/5: Belladonna rose, full intensity

#6/7/8: Primary blue, full intensity

I took this picture at a concert last summer, and I remember being there and thinking that the lighting was very surreal and unnatural, in a good way. The colors were so vivid and coming straight down to the audience from the stage, so it felt like I was in another world.

Reference Photo Via Pinterest

I selected this image because of the strange, almost unnatural lighting it displayed. Althought it is still on a single subject, I knew that it would prove as a challenge.

When making my diagram, I knew that I was going to utilise the cyc lights. I also planned on using ERS’s for the spots of color which break up the orange/red background.

In Light Lab, I would have made the floor and wall white to be more reflective but ran out of time.

Fixtures:

4 Cyc 100% Golden Amber

Chan 1- Top Light, Soft Focus, Light Red, 36 deg, 50%

Chan 2- Side Light Stg Left, hard focus, Golden Amber, 26 deg, 100%

Chan 4-6- Background lights, soft focus, Deep Straw, (10, 19, 26 deg), 50%

Chan 9-10- Top Light, Soft Focus, Light Red, 90 deg, 50%

This photo is taken by Nate Smith from google. I chose this because the lighting seemed surreal, almost like a UFO was landing.

4/16/2024 – 1:20 pm – Outside of Emily Lowe

Objective: The bright sunlight beaming across the lawn shines onto the relaxing students of Hofstra.

Subjective: In the warm, glowing heat of the sunlight provides a white and yellow-ish tint onto the students spread out across the lawn. This light makes the scenery feel light and happy compared to the recent cold and miserable rainy days.

photo from google and eos

Lights used:

1. SL upstage, cyan lighting, side lights, full percent
2. CS upstage, cyan lighting, CS Top Light, full percent
3. SR upstage, cyan lighting, side lights, full percent