Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) 2/18/13 at 10:30pm in the costume shop

2) the solitary light coming from a single sewing machine

3) This light made me feel rather nervous.  It was a pale yellow light that was extremely bright compared to the darkness in the shop.  What made me nervous was not just the implication that if I hadn’t made sure that all the machines were off that Cheryl might have been angry, but the way the light seemed to throw sharp shadows against everything in the room and with these sharp shadows came almost black areas in the shop and in the windows that could hide anything.  I knew that there was no one else in the costume shop because I had been there alone working, but the way the sharp yellow light seemed to catch every wrinkle or corner and threw the rest into shadow made me hurry to turn on the lights again and make sure no one was there.  I usually just walk over to the machine and turn it off, but tonight I didn’t feel safe until I had the lights back on.  Even then, because of the light from the machine, I could not see outside the window so I avoided looking outside until I was safely by the door again.  This light was surprisingly terrifying because I didn’t realize a light so small could fill an entire room and cause so many grotesque shadows to infiltrate the normally boring room.

1. 12 pm 2/9/13 Walking into the netherlands core.

2. It had just snowed the day before so everything in sight was white and the sun was extremely bright and reflecting off the snow.

3. When I walked over to get lunch after trekking through mounds of snow piles, i crossed the street and immediately a blinding glare came to my eyes. The glare came from above and below because of the reflection from the sun’s rays. It felt blinding and even looking for relief inside did not help the blinding glare was disorienting. The snow was everywhere and because it was so sunny outside the snow picked up on all of the sun but instead of using it to melt itslef, the snow caused havoc on the eyes of a bystander.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/14/13 5:15 PM, Driving home from work

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The sun has started to set and is already hidden below the trees.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The way the sun has already fallen behind the trees leaves the trees dark and silhouetted providing a great contrast to the numerous oranges and purples and blues painting the sky above. The sky and the trees feel as if they are in two completely different times of day, the contrast between the two is so great. The trees seem already submerged into the dark of night while the sky is still clinging to day. Being unable to really see the bright burst of the sun except where it peeks through the trees gives a very mysterious yet hopeful quality to the scene.