Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: 2/21/21- 5:00 pm

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: In the middle of the unispan the cars were passing by during rush hour and the sun was setting.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The sun is setting but the real stars of this show are the electric pink skies. They appear to be weighed down by darker air above them causing the strip of pink to contrast deeply against the purple clouds. The silhouette of each car, person, tree, and piece of infrastructure makes this scene feel like a moment frozen in time.

1. 3/27, dusk, Netherlands courtyard
2. At dusk, the lights were just turning on, everything had a slightly blue-ish hue because the sun was setting and it was somewhat overcast, and the lights weren’t fully on yet.  People could still probably walk around without lights, however, it was beginning to get dark.
3. At dusk, just as the lights were turning on to illuminate people’s way, the Netherlands courtyard was illuminated in a diffused, blue-y light, the light was light enough so that people could still walk without a flashlight or lights to light the way, however, it would soon be too dark to do so.  The light was cast in a way that it didn’t cast shadows, presumably because the sun appeared to have already retreated behind the clouds. The light shone a somewhat somber light because it was getting darker, and the connotations we have with the color blue, however, it reminded me of summer, where kids run around and play all day.

1.) My Room 5:20 am yesterday morning (3/28/18)  in my bed room.

2.) I am lying in my bed and woke up at 5am because I just returned from France where they are 6 hours ahead. The window is 45 degrees to my left, and is facing the East. There are no curtains on my windows. So at 5:20 a.m dawn began. The sun had not risen but the sky was lighting up and came into my room. The light spreads from my window to the adjacent wall, it runs along the wall in front of me, as well as the floor around my bed and the first 18″ of my bed where my feet are. The rest of my bed is not in the light because the bed is in a cove. The light is a dim dark blue and smoothly washes over everything in its ray of light.

3.) The beam is a calm relaxing blanket. Cooling down everything in the room. At night the room get minimal lighting by the warm street lamp. But at dusk the cool blue slides in, blowing away the heat. It feels like a new day in approaching, washing away the stresses and frustrations of the previous.

I took this photo on my way back to campus with two of my friends and we noticed that it was uncharacteristically dark outside and there were no shadows except the ones from the headlights. It took us a little bit longer until we realized that all the street lamps and stoplights were out. Everything looked instantly more ominous and weird until we got back to campus, where the streetlights were working.

1) Feb 19, ~5:30 PM; Outside Lowe

2) Dusk lighting in a snowy area

3) I was making a quick trip Bits & Bytes for a break during my 55 in the costume shop. When I left the front doors of Lowe, I noticed that most of the environment, especially the layer of white snow everywhere, had been made blue by the faint lighting of the late day. I remember a very distinct feeling of uneasiness. I knew the objects around me weren’t blue in true light, but if I had taken a screenshot of my sight and picked out their pixels with a water dropper tool they would have been blue. I felt like my eyes were working hard to bring me as much of the truth of the environment as possible. I started wondering if what I was seeing was real or if my eyes were acting like goggles and showing me the world through blue lenses. I also asked myself– if aliens were to come to this planet right now, would they see the same thing I see?

1.) Wednesday Feb. 16th 2011, 5:20 P.M. Brower 201.

2.) Observing dusk through the windows of a dimly-lit classroom.

3.) Because of the time of year, my Monday-Wednesday art history class covers the amount of time it takes the sun to go down. I walk into class during the day and leave at night. During a boring slide show, I looked out the window and observed the dusky, dim, purplish light coming in that blended perfectly with the half-lit room and the glow of the projector. It was as if the artificial light and natural light blended perfectly. It was a very unsettling, disquieting feeling, something one would feel while watching a Hitchcock movie. Soon the balance was tipped as it got darker outside. That transitional feeling was memorable, though.