Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) 4/18/12 – 12:42 PM – Walking from Netherlands core to Groningen house

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking home from working on Spring Awakening and was listening to music as I slowly walked through the Netherlands. The lamps that are contained within the courtyard areas were all on and I was looking down at my feet. As I passed each lamp my shadow moved with the light and I had many shadows from each light.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was strolling home from the studio somewhat late on thursday night. I was in no hurry and had my IPod playing the new Train CD and I was simply enjoying my favorite band while I took in the fresh aroma of the spring flowers. On my lackadaisical walk across campus I was focused and enveloped within my music. I was mostly focused on looking down at the side walk as I was really trying to pay close attention to the lyrics. Just as i entered the Netherlands my attention began to shift to a new area of my surroundings. Inside of the Netherlands there are a series of street lamps that help illuminate the inside courtyard so that we are able to see when we are walking from one house to the next. What I suddenly became aware of was my shadow that was being cast from these lamps.

The lamps are staggered evenly down the side walk from the core to the back entrance. As I approached the first lamp I noticed that it cast a shadow down of my body. As I got closer to the lamp, my shadow began to get smaller until I was dead even with the lamp and then as I waled past the post my shadow would grow longer once more. Just as the shadow began to disappear, a new one began to show up just as quickly, but this time from the other side of my body (because the light was now to the left of me). As I walked all the way to  my door, I passed a total of five lamp posts, studying each shadow as I walked past. The shadows reminded me of a circus. A circus with stretchy mirrors or creepy shadows that always seem to be following a clown and just as soon as one reflection or shadow leaves a new one appears. It was a very neat illusion and now I find if almost impossible to not have a lighting moment every time I come home at night.

1)  3/6/12 – 12:22 PM – Outside of student center, walking between theater and tower.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking to class and the sun was at high noon and was very bright and unobstructed. there was a shadow cast by the student center on the sidewalk but there were blurry reflections of light from the windows of the towers all over the ground.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was walking to my first afternoon class at around 12:30 on tuesday. I was rushing across the parking lot and onto the corridor between the student center theater and Alliance tower. As I passed between the two buildings, I noticed something very strange happening with the lighting around me. The sun was burning brightly, and very high in the sky. Only the tallest buildings were casting shadows. In front of me, the only building to be casting any shadows on the path in front of me was the shadow of the student center. As I approached the shadow on the ground, I thought hardly anything of it; it was just a shadow after all.

As I began to walk directly on top of the shadow on the sidewalk I realized the irregularity of the situation I was in. The sunshine was beaming off of all of the windows from Alliance and Bill Of Rights. With the angle that the two buildings were in relation to sun seemed to make the area where I was walking, the area with the shadow, the focal point for all of the reflections. The pools of light that were making it to the ground were all very unfocused but there was a clear mess of bright spots all over the shadowed sidewalk below me. As my body passed through this haystack of lights I noticed that my shadows were being cast in multiple directions. I felt as though I was in a circus surrounded by a bunch of mirrors. Like what you see in the movies when characters are watching their bodys walking all around them from the reflections of the mirrors all around them. It was a very cool feeling and one that opened my eyes up to all of the angles and sources all around me.

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2) Clay Enos
3) Dealer’s Choice / Creepy
4) DESCRIPTION: The moment I saw this picture it just looked so creepy and menacing. The way the light is so concentrated and how it falls on the objects and creates those dark intense shadows, just really gives you a sense of isolation .