Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) 3/15/12 – 6:52AM – Quadship Enterprise

2) Early morning night sky, lampposts, sunrise.

3) After having to wake up at the crack of dawn, I looked out my window expecting to see a bright beautiful sunrise. To my surprise, I found a completely black night sky. I stared at the bright LCD numbers on my clock – 6:52. I turned on the backlight on my phone – 6:52. I checked the window again to be sure. This time I noticed the lampposts on in the parking lot. Each one was emitting a beautiful orb of amber light. The amber from the lamposts was reflecting off of the damp ground, and those were the only sources of light. I felt like I was on the Twilight Zone or something. 6:52 and no sun? I definitely thought the apocalypse was coming. Lo and behold, the sky started to turn into a muted blue tone, but there was no sun to be seen. The Mayans were definitely off by a year… or maybe its just the aftereffects of daylight savings time.

1. 6:00AM, March 16, 2012, The Batcave (A.K.A. My dorm room)

2. The flourescent lights coming through my patchwork blanket created a pink and rainbow glow.

3. I hate waking up. This is contributed to by the fact that I love my bed. One of the reasons I so love my bed is the quilt my aunt made that goes on top of it. She patch-worked it for my graduation, out of the silliest fabrics she could find. It is bright colors all over. Some nights, I fall asleep with the lights on, and wake up the next morning tangled in my blankets, still in my jeans, with my quilt pulled up over my head. As I slowly open my eyes, the world around me is soft and shades of pink. The light filters through the multicolored top layer and the pink bottom to appear cotton candy colored by the time it reaches my eyes. It is sweet and warm, making my skin under it look odd but loved. the colors enfold me from all sides and I am a burrito of soft morning light. For some reason, such sweet softness when I awaken always causes me to be shocked that it was caused by the ceiling fluorescent in my room.

1. Outside the NAB, Tuesday, 6pm

2. The sun against the glass

3. At a glance the light was simply blinding but it allowed for parts of the glass encased building to be seen into while other areas were used only as a reflective surface. The angle of the sun played against the horizontal wall to give extra dimension to the architecture. Since most of the building can usually be seen the fact that it can’t be seen, makes the NAB seem bigger than it is. When we know what to expect and can see in front of us its approachable while when we can’t seen what we expect it gains a larger than life imposing quality.