Drama 16 Stage Lighting

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2) http://www.buzzle.com/articles/desert-facts.html

3) Hot

4) Well this photograph is of a desert, which is obviously something that is very hot. What sticks out to me in this picture, however, is the rising/setting sun. It means the desert is in its first or last moments of heat in the day. Some sand is absorbing heat, which contrasts with the sand cooled by shadow. It’s hot as long as the sun is out and the sun is still present in this picture.

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2. Photo from http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/images-8/blazing-sun.jpg

3. Theme: Hot

4. Looking at this photo, my mouth begins to dry and I become parched. When I thought of the theme “hot”, I immediately thought desert sun. There is something about the sun shines through the clouds  and spreads it’s beams wide. The variety of reds, oranges, and yellows, fill the sky creating an image of fire in the sky. Sunlight always warms you and is correlated with “hot”. Even on the coldest day, everything seems that much better when you are in the sun instead of shadows. It’s heat is a strong memory in the brain and therefore, the light itself triggers that feeling of hot power beating up against your skin. This picture is a perfect visual for that feeling. When you look at it, you get a little tingle against your skin because your mind wants to experience the sensation of heat it gets when it see’s the same image in the sky.

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2) http://thelintonian.com/files/2011/08/Burning-Hot-Sun.jpg

3) Theme: Hot

4) This picture signifies hot to me because just looking at the photo makes you think of a desert or a warm locations where the sun is shining. The sun is bright yellow and the sky is an orange color. Also, there is a huge glare that makes you blink if you look in the middle of the sun. This picture signifies hot because the sun raises the temperature outside during the day. It looks like this is a picture of a desert sky and the sun is finally starting to set after a long, hot day. Also, the different colors of the sky, reminds me of the color of fire, an amber like tone. All of these things, sun, fire, heat have to do with this week’s theme.

17 April, 2012
South Campus
Around  5:00 pm

I’ve just gotten off work and am walking from the eastern side of south campus towards Emily Lowe. It’s one of the insanely hot days we had earlier this week, the sun shining bright and hard. Squinting up at the sky, I notice something I had never actively noticed before: the clouds between me and the sun have shadows.

For whatever reason, this really surprised me. I’ve been on many planes before and have noticed when we’re still flying low that patches of the green down below is covered with a cloud’s shadow, but it is so immense that you don’t notice you are in fact in a shadow when you’re on the ground. But when I looked up at the sky and saw the outer edges of the fluffy white clouds strikingly brighter than the center of the cloud facing away from the sun, I realized that I had never actively made notice of the fact that clouds have shadows. It makes perfect sense – objects cast shadows, mass casts shadows. But for whatever reason I never connected that to clouds. Which means that every single drawing I did as a kid with the yellow sun taking up one corner and a tree the other with some white clouds in the middle have been inaccurate – there should have been some grey in those clouds, even in the perfect spring or summer scenes I drew. This realization was surprisingly thought provoking for me. I should probably pay more attention to my surroundings so I don’t miss these obvious things.