Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) 1/31/13, 1245pm, Outside of Emily Lowe Hall (to the left)

2) The sun is shining brightly; you can see a lot of brightness as you look on the ground. You can also see the sun through the gaps in the tree branches.

3) I exited the Emily Lowe Hall building and walked to the left to see the sun glaring above. There were some clouds in the sky and the sun was very noticeable where it was in my eyes if I looked up at the sky. As I walked to the parking lot, the sun got smaller and I was entering an area that had more shade and it was cooler in temperature. The buildings covered the light that was shining on the ground when I was walking away from the yellow sun.

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2) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Sunset_sunrise.jpg

(July 17, 2005)

3) Theme: Sunrise/Sunset

4)      The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment when the trailing edge of the Sun’s disk disappears below the horizon. The ray path of light from the setting Sun is highly distorted near the horizon because of atmospheric refraction, making the sunset appear to occur when the Sun’s disk is already about one diameter below the horizon. Sunset is distinct from dusk, which is the time at which the sky becomes completely dark, which occurs when the Sun is approximately eighteen degrees below the horizon.

1. 1/31/13, 9:00 am, Stuvyesant Hall parking lot

2. Bright, blinding sunlight glaring over the student center onto the cars.

3. Walking out of Stuyvesant Hall on my way to class The sunlight immediately hits my eyes like a bowling ball hitting the pins. The light was blinding, making everything disoriented. The light was so blinding it makes your eyes burn. After the initial burn went away the colors seemed to appear. The glow of the sunrise was a deep bright yellow illuminating the entire sky. Walking closer and closer the bright yellow color of the sky slowly disappeared as the shadow of the dark gray building.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: When and where you had your lighting “moment”

1/30/13, 4:30PM, Republic Hall Dorm Room

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Simply identify what the light you are talking about is. Describe well enough for someone who is not there to understand what the light is.

About half way into the room there was a short lamp was on a desk. The lamp was on and created a set of concentric circles on the desk, sharing the lamp as their center. The innermost circle, the circle closest to the lamp, was shaded. The light created by the lamp barely brightened that circle. The middle circle was lit. It was bright and entirely lit by the lamp. The last circle was essentially the rest of the room, which also was dark and shaded in comparison to the middle circle and still darker than the inner circle. The circles faded into one another, having blurry edges rather than having sharp, defined edges between them.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: This should be a creative and imaginative description of the lighting “moment”. Assign a feeling or emotion to the lighting; find the “poetry” of the moment.

The light was protective. The middle circle was a strong wall, holding at bay the darkness that surrounded the lamp. The darkness was all around, but the light held its ground against the ever-looming foe, protecting the weaker circle light behind it. The darkness was creeping in, and the wall of light was partially compromised at its furthest edge, but there was still a ring of space between the rest of the room and the inner circle.