Drama 16 Stage Lighting

4/10/2024 – 11:54 pm – Hammer Lab

Objective: The overhead lights reflect off the hammer lab’s dark windows.

Subjective: The bright intensity of the led lights hanging in the ceiling tiles provides an over-sensory feeling for the students working in the room. Since the lights are unnaturally bright, the lights reflect against the windows into the dark night, giving the human eye only the reflection on the glass instead of the outside nightlife before them.

photo from google and eos

Lights used:

1. SL upstage, white lighting, side lights, cyc 25 percent
2. SL upstage, white lighting, side lights, cyc 25 percent
3. SL upstage, white lighting, SL top light, full percent

#1 – Deep Straw, Full Intensity, Sharp Focus, 10 Degree

#2 – Golden Amber, 85% Intensity, Soft Focus, 26 Degree

#3 – Light Red, Full Intensity, Soft Focus, 70 Degree

#4 – Primary Blue, 75% Intensity, Soft Focus, 50 Degree

#5 – Parry Sky Blue, 85% Intensity, Soft Focus,90 Degree

Lighting Moments – Google Docs

#1: Golden Amber- 65% intensity

#2: Goldne Amber- 65% intensity

#3: White light- full intensity

#4: White light- 25% intensity

#5: White light- 25% intensity

#9: White light- 50% intensity

#10: White light- 50% intensity

Lights used:

CYC: top and bottom lights, brilliant blue, intensity full

#1: Full C.T blue, intensity 95

#2: Brilliant blue, intensity 85

#3: Full C.T blue, intensity 75

Lights Used

#3 tharon Delft blue intensity 70

#4 Golden amber intensity 80

#5 Clearwater intensity 35

#6 Clearwater intensity full

#7 Clearwater intensity 70

#8 Golden amber intensity 70

#9 Golden amber intensity full

#10 Deep straw intensity 90

4/8/24 – 10:03 AM – 6th Avenue

Objective: The sun shines and reflects light on the buildings as we walk down the street toward Radio City Music Hall.

Subjective: The sun is not reluctant to tell us it is morning. Although the buildings scrape the sky and block the sun from direct view, we still experience the power of its rays against the sheen of the glass windows.

For my lab recreation of this ad, I used the middle overhead light with a soft focus, one side light from stage left, and one front/side light from stage left. The sidelights were hung at the second level, and all lights were set to a 26-degree range. I am uncertain whether the advertisement uses two lights from the side or not, but I chose to use two because my subject was too dark compared to the ad otherwise.

Location: Breslin Hall, 4pm

Objective: Sun beams are seen from the thin area between the window sill and curtains. They are created by ambient dust and haze which dissipates as class continues.

Subjective: The outdoors stabs through an oppressive hall, impaling themselves into the minds of students who want nothing more than to leave.

Ref image via Pinterest

I had some issues with balancing the material properties of the original subject and the rendering engine of the program, but this is as close as possible as I think that I could get it. I ended up needing to add a side light on the left and a top light.