Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Photo taken by me, out my bed room window sometime this past week.

THEME: isolation

DESCRIPTION: this photo portrays the isolation as the light from the outside world creeps through the window, drawing our attention to how we are stuck inside alone not able to experience the world outside us.

1. Norfolk, Massachusetts. Thursday, April 2nd. 9PM
2. Isolation
3. It’s not like I got out much before, but now that we’re forced to be inside I want to all the more. My daily dose of freed usually comes in the form of an hour drive around my town (its still social distancing if I don’t leave my car, right?) I stopped by one of my fav locations, an abandoned airfield 15 minutes away from my house. Just a week ago, it would have been occupied by dogs and families, but now a warning was tacked at the entrance bearing the words “Covid 19 Epidemic”. My headlights threw a stark light onto the empty field, reminding me of the isolation we are all currently facing. 

This image was taken by me over the summer on a rainy day at my job in Ocean City, NJ

THEME: Isolation

SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The clouds cast the entire image in a dull, pale blue light. With no one around and the rain slightly shining on the wood of the boardwalk, this scene could either be described as serene or boring. Peaceful or dull. It mainly depends on the point of view.

1) Photo is from https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-spotlight-effect-3024470

2) THEME: Isolation

3) DESCRIPTION: A woman stands alone under a spotlight that is right above her head. The rest of the photo is dark. 

2) I took this photo inside my house 

3) THEME: Isolation 

4) DESCRIPTION: I feel like it’s important to find space in the house that makes you feel less like you stuck there all the time. I’m the kind of person that can get super bored, so watching lighting come into the house in different ways and getting outside has been pushing me forward.  

1. Location: Hofstra Parking Lot behind Hofstra USA, March 13, 2017 at 12:01 a.m.
2. Objective: The light post is gleaming through the snow on top of me. There is nothing around me but a light flurry of snow. Only myself and the yellow-white light above is shown.
3. Subjective: This light shows how isolating a snow storm can be at a university. Usually, when class is cancelled because of a storm, I have stay inside in order to keep out the cold. However, I usually will get tired of my isolation and venture out into the tundra. I believe that this light shows the possibility that there is something out there besides ice and snow.

1. Location: Lawrence T. Hubert School of Comm men’s bathroom, February 7, 2017 at 2:40 pm.
2. Objective: Tungsten lights are glaring down against white walls, coventry grey stands, and smooth plaster toilets. They reflect against a mirror attop of a similar white sink.
3. Subjective: When thinking about the bathroom, I always think about Stanley Kubrick and his usage of lavatories. When in the bathroom, we are usually at our most vulnerable, as “Kubrick’s work is primarily concerned with the havoc, comedy, terror, and chaos unleashed by the animals in human heads” (Westerman). The bathroom allows Kubrick to display the animalistic nature that coincides or conflicts with the modern era.

As the light is reverberates through the bathroom, their can almost be a tense isolation felt below the glaring tungsten. However, there is also a peace of being alone in the bathroom, where there are no other types of distracting lights. These two ideas conflict with the ideas of dignified civility against a need for animalistic rebellion.

2. Taken from my window

3. Cold

4. This makes me think of cold because of the fact that there is really nothing to be seen except white. Everything is covered in white. Besides that being the color of snow, that’s a color I associate with isolation and being alone which to me also brings about a feeling of coldness. I like that you really can’t see anything distinctive about where this photo is except for the cars that sprinkle a few dull colors about the photo. You can’t see buildings in the distance, just trees and snow. Something to me that furthers this feeling is also the watery ice marks in the corner of the photo which furthers the idea of isolation, with being on the outside looking in so to speak. The photo is just very dark and dull which brings out a feeling of coldness and I really like that.