Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1)March 8th, 2012 – 4:15 – Spiegel Theater

2)Alli Fair and I were chosen to help Meaghan Maloney during Royston’s directing class by acting out a scene. The onstage lights made it near impossible to see the
crowd.

3) There is a reason why I am not a performance major, and the lucky group of people in Royston’s directing class got to witness a performance by Alli Fairchild and myself. After climbing to the stage, I looked out to the audience and was blinded by the bright white lights. All I could see was the silhouette of every member of the crowd. The bright light filled the top of my vision with blinding light. It gave an ominous yet holy feel to the situation. The feeling and effect can be freezing. Stage lights are a huge cause of stage fright. I could not see who was in the audience, it adds a sense of mystery and causes one to wonder, the imagination goes wild. What is in the unknown?

Date, Time, Location: Wednesday February 9^th, 2011; 1:26AMish, at home

Objective Description: nightlight in the kitchen onto the box of cookies I was after.

Subjective Description: on my nighttime voyage for snacks, I noticed the nightlight on the counter. It was facing down and was the only light on in the whole house. Directly under this single white beam of light was a bag of Pepperidge farm cookies. As the bag was being lit from above, flickering, it became more defined. This ominous glowing made a halo effect. And just as important as the light, was the darkness. The other snack food on either side of this holy bag of cookies was just shy of hitting the light, and could only be seen by the silhouetted against the back wall. This effect made it appear as if the less important snacks were in these cookies shadows. After I saw this “light moment” I proceeded to eat a cookie… it was delicious.