Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Where: NAB Black-box. During a rehearsal.

Objective Description: An actress standing on a chair holds a light source, the rest of the cast is gathered close by. All other lights in the black-box are out.

Subjective Description: I could see the faces of other people struck clearly against the black backdrop of nothing that the space had become. I was reminded of summer nights whereon people gather around a campfire, or on nights in the middle of winter during power outages, when things are lit only by candles, flashlights, or lanterns. On nights like these, the world is only in the ring of light – any faces therein are the only other people in the world – all things outside the ring of light become relative: they expand into oblivion. Things in the ring of light are realized in minute detail, and modeled in a unique way, that is often unsettling if not frightening. And yet, there is a grandeur as well – a sense taking of one’s self out of the body, and seeing one’s self within the ring of light as though from afar off.

1.) 2/9/11 noon, on the Medowbrook parkway
2.) this was a moment where the light was shining through the cloud. however it was not a sterotypical sun feeling, there was no warm feeling about it. I was a bright day but the clouds were a dark shade of grey.
3.) this was a sense of hope at the end of a dark patch in life. Still suffering though, knowing that there might be a chance for a change.

Where: basement hallway of Gittleson

When: Monday, Feb 7

Objective: Fluorescent lights in a long hallway

Subjective: I was walking down this hallway in the basement of breslin, where the only light was from the fluorescents above. As I walked down this hallway, I felt an eerie feeling and felt almost as if I was walking down the hallway of a hospital. It felt sad, hallow, and empty.