Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Where:  In Stage Lighting class, sitting at my desk next to the window in the morning.

Objective Description:  The sun was shining through the window onto the white window sill, with snow-covered trees seen through the window.

Subjective Description:  The sunshine this morning had a hopeful and peaceful feeling to it.  It seemed almost life-giving despite the fact that it was the middle of winter.  The light through the window seemed fresh, clean and new and gave the sill the appearance of being freshly and lovingly painted.  The white paint shined with the bright sun illuminating it, and gave a beautiful contrast to the dark black-brown trees that could be seen in the distance.

1) Feb. 2nd – 12:57 p.m – dorm room: As I came into my dorm room on Wednesday afternoon my blinds from the night before hadn’t been opened like usual and the light that did come in through the blinds was limited yet lit a lot of the room.

2) Day light coming in through blinds in dorm room, hitting books on window sill and shining in on the floor.

3) As I came into my dorm room on Wednesday afternoon I usually always flick the switch of my terrible fluorescent light that suspends from my bedroom ceiling but today when I walked in I didn’t feel the need to turn on the light because I was struck by the light that crept through the half opened blinds from my one window in the center of my room. The day was not bright by any means but since my room faces the inside of another building the light that did come through made the day seem so much brighter. It still seemed like a cold wintery day but with the crisp colors of white and blues and grays that peeked through the blinds on my window sill and on my tile floor. It illuminated the room so much more than usual or at least than I remember. I left the fluorescent light off and proceeded with my day with the light that bleed through the blinds.

1) Feb. 1st – 6:45 p.m – Hofstra campus: My lighting “moment” happened when I was walking out of my building where I live to go get dinner.

2) “Orangey” glow from a street lamp that shown on the snow and icy pavement/ sidewalk when coming out of Nassau/Suffolk.

3) As I walked out of my building to head to dinner the light from the orange street lamps gave me a calming yet spooky feeling. I felt like I was in a ghost town but I would be safe back in my building but for the mean time making the walk for dinner the sky would be glowing down on me as if watching me and my every move. As other people approached you could see the shadows on their faces. It felt like I was in a Halloween town. What a perfect night to go trick or treating on. It was the perfect mix of black and orange on the pavement and in the sky.