Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Date.Time.Location: 2/25/19 9:05 PM Somer Center Chapel at Concordia College

Objective Description: I sat within this massive church for a service on Monday night. The chapel has no windows and all of the lights were switched off. There was no light emanating from the room except for the ten small candle lights that surrounded the altar.

Subjective Description:It was quite the unusual experience to see a chapel without any windows except for the ones in the hallway directly outside of it. The doors leading to these windows were shut before service effectively draining out all of the natural light from the room. Soon after this, the ten candles surrounding the altar were lit and an unusual phenomenon managed to capture my attention. What started off as pitch black was soon illuminated as the ten small orange lights from these candles managed to gradually breathe life back into the room and seemed to envelop everybody and everything in their warm embrace. These small lights filled me with quite a jovial sense of hopefulness not only for the rest of the night that remained but for the day that was to come in a matter of hours. These tiny lights at first appeared small and soon grew to overtake the entire room, the cold of the night looked to dissipate and the hopeful and happy warmth from the candles ushered in a great sense of optimism in everyone around me for the events that were to come.

1. 2/28/19 11:00pm My living room
2. The door to the backyard was open while I waited for my dog to come back inside. All of a sudden the motion light from the shed went off and shined into the house.
3. The light from the shed was so bright it light up the yard as if it were a bright sunny day.

Date.Time.Location- 2/20/19. 12:15 PM. In my car on the Long Island Expressway driving home.

Objective Description- I am sitting in my car driving down the highway on my way back home. The sky is gray and snow eventually begins to fall. As the intensity of the snowfall increased, my vision began to blur and eventually seeing what was ahead of me on the road became difficult.

Subjective Description- The sky above me was gray with the threat of imminent snowfall. The gray color of the sky brought forth a certain dismal and gloomy feeling that was amplified once the snow began to fall. Eventually everything in front of me became so gray and blurry that something so simple as making out the lines on the road became a difficult task. The road back home seemed to become more and more obscure as the snowfall increased. Soon it seemed as if all that existed was this gray sheet that looked to consume the world around me. This ever present gray at first presented a sense of gloom and desolation, but soon brought out a sense of calm urgency in me. This was an acknowledgement of the fact that the path before me was fading fast, but if I maintained my present pace, eventually I would find my way home once again.

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: Monday Afternoon, Culkins Hall, Stairwell to Shakespeare Stock

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: A section of industrial fluorescent lights that flickers for about 15 second when you flip the switch, every time you flip the switch. They go from fully off to full brightness for about a second at a time.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Had no one touched this switch for years, you would expect such a reaction. As though you where stirring up something new inside a long forgotten hall.

1. 2/14/19 10:40pm My Bedroom.
2. I glanced out my window for a brief second and was surprised to see a blue light emanating from one of the street lights.
3. All of the other street lights give off a yellowish hue but this one in particular shines a bright blue.

2/11/18, in my bed, 11pm

Objective: I put my leg up towards the ceiling and my side lamp light hit it.

Subjective: A pale shin was illuminated by a stark,white light battery powered lantern on my window sill.

Date, time, location: Tuesday, 9:30pm, walking by the fields to Colonial Square

Objective Description: Walking on the sidewalk, street lamps turned on to my left along the road.

Subjective Description: A foggy mist enveloped me as streaks of street light peered through the negative space created by the barren trees.

1. 10:16pm 2/7/19 on the quad at Hofstra.
2. I was walking to the parking lot after a long day of classes. As I looked up from my phone I saw a tall lamp post in the center of the quad. The lights seemed exceptionally bright against the dark sky.
3. You can always find a light when faced with darkness.

1) April 17-1:22am-Lounge Room in Dorm

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Two strands of star shaped lights string around on the walls. The lights change individually through a rainbow of colors. There are no other lights on in the room except for these colorful lights.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: This lighting moment made me feel very calm. It was such a soft and pretty arrange of colors it made me feel safe and a little magical. Because of how the colors were not very natural colors, it made the room feel magical. This lighting moment was calming even with all the stress of life.

April 18th, 2018/ 5pm/ The Unity Project-Memorial (Calkins) Quad

Objective Description: I’m standing under the layer of yarn strings. The strings are blocking out the sun but there are many cracks that let in the suns rays.

Subjective Description: The Unity Projects giant yarn quilt is already beautiful, but having the sun shine from above it makes the yarn glow in a rainbow pattern. The cracks in the quilt also shine straight through and you can almost “see” the beams if you look down at the grass.