Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1. Tuesday, May 17th, around 8:00am. My dorm looking out to Oak street and the tress behind Stuyvesant.
2. There is a shadow from the building and the taller trees making it so some leaves appear to be greener than others.
3. With the sun on the other side of the building, I was able to see all of the shadows and where the light hit without the worry of being blinded. There was very little wind and no clouds, so it seemed as though that the leaves that were getting sun, had been getting sun for a while. These leaves looked like they were glowing green and started to reflect the sunlight. This was a nice contrast to the leaves that were in the shadows, getting no light. Where the leaves with sun seemed to be alive and have a mind of their own, the leaves in the shadows seemed mopey and like they had no movement to them. It gave off the illusion that the minimal wind only affected the leaves that had sun.

1. Found on Google
2. Theme: Summer
3. The light coming from the setting Sun fills the sky in a way that gives off a very warm feeling. It also gives the clouds and the ground a pinkish tint that the waterfall seems to be reflecting, which I find to be quite fascinating. I also found that the layout of the clouds in the sky gave the Sun a nice framing that gives the illusion that the clouds closest to it could be on fire.

1. Wednesday, April 27th, around 9pm. My friend’s dorm in Tilburg in Netherlands North.
2. The street lamps in the Netherlands North quad coming in from the common room windows.
3. I was laying on the couch watching a show when I looked up at the ceiling and noticed an angled, amber light coming in through the window and hitting the wall that is perpendicular with the wall the windows are on. Across the room, on the wall parallel to the windows, there was more of a white light and had a complete shape of the windows and the shadow of the blinds. I enjoyed seeing these different lights coming in through the window because it was very obvious they were two different lights, and I was able to imagine in my head where they were outside of the window without actually looking out into the quad.

1. Found on Google
2. Theme: Wild Card
3. The lighting in this picture is fascinating. There is a sense of irony given that the subject of the picture is a lighthouse and there is very minimal light and color. It’s noticeable that the light from the sun is either rising or setting just below the horizon and is blocked by the clouds in the sky. Having the picture be in a black and white is quite striking because color is only visible to to light wavelengths, and it’s almost like there is no color because the lighthouse is clearly not lit.

1. Tuesday, April 19th, around 7:30am. Looking out my dorm window from my bed.
2. The sunrise just above the Netherlands and shining through the tress, into my dorm.
3. I woken up to my roommate’s 7:30 alarm, and as I flipped over to check what time it was I saw the sunrise. I sat and looked at it for a second. It was a breezy morning, so the trees were swaying, but that movement didn’t even cause there to be shadows across my dorm. The orange rays shining through would just be hidden for a split second before I could see them again. The image was quite striking and I really took a moment to appreciate how a sunrise changes as the Sun makes its way up to the sky, but also that the sunrise can be different every morning. Then I went back to sleep.

1. Found on “DeviantArt.com.” Titled, “The Path,” published by JoshuaDuLac.
2. Theme: Surreal
3. I find that the contrast between the light and dark, very realistic lighting, and the unrealistic stairs leading to the sky give an element of surreal. I’ve seen this lighting in the sky before after a day storm and I’ve never thought that there could be more behind the clouds, but this picture gives the illusion that there is more life behind the light, like there is something we’re missing and we can only take the stairs to find out. With the lighting and subject working together, there is an element of realism, but there’s also an element of fantasy and the way the lighting offers a spotlight in a way allows the two opposites to come together in a profound way.

1. Wednesday, April 13th, around 7:00am. Looking out the window outside of the girl’s bathroom in Lowe.
2. The sunrise peeking out between the Playhouse and Calkins Hall.
3. Most of the sky was a light grey, the color before the sun actually takes over the sky. Although I couldn’t see it, I  believe the Sun was just above the horizon and the orange and pink from the Sun were peaking out above the buildings. There was some cloudage in the sky which gave the pink and orange something to shine off of and create more saturated areas of the sky.

1. A Fall Sunset in Vermont

Instruments 1-4 are hung USR using gel R32 at full with a 36 degree flood and soft focus. Instruments 3-6 are hung two positions below instruments 1-4 SR and are using gel R40 at full with a 36 degree flood and soft focus. The top cyc lights are using gel R74 at 80% and the bottom cyc lights are using gel R11 at 65%.

The lower hanging lights are representative of the direct sunlight as it is about ti set while the upper hanging lights is the brighter pinker light that fills the sky. The blue light on the cyc represents the color that slowly takes over the sky in a sunset’s last few minutes.

2. Easter Sunrise in a Gothic Cathedral

Instrument 1 is hanging in the upstage SR corner using gel R45 at full with a 50 degree flood and soft focus. Instrument 2 is hanging in the upstage SR corner using gel R68 at full with a 50 degree flood and soft focus. Instrument 3 is one hanging position below instruments 1 and 2 SR; it is using gel R13 at full with a 50 degree flood and soft focus. All instruments are using the “Breakup” gobo.

The gobo is giving the impression of the light coming through a stained glass window, along with the colored light that the Sun gives off when shining through the stained glass. The light is coming from SR like the Sun has just begin rising in the East.

3. Noon on a Hot Summer Day

The bottom cyc lights are using gel R75 at full. Instruments 1 and 2 are at the downstage corners using gel R313 at full with a 90 degree flood and soft focus. Instruments 3, 4, and 5, are center stage using gel 313 at full with a 50 degree flood and soft focus.

The direct overhead center stage light represents the direct overhead Sun at noon and the light that the corner instruments give off helps fill the space to give more of a hotter feeling. The blue cyc gives the illusion of the Caribbean sea.

4. Winter Afternoon Just Before the Snow

Instruments 1-6 are in every corner hanging position with gel L201 at full with a 90 degree flood and soft focus. The top and bottom cyc lights have no gel and are at full. Instrument 7 is DC using gel R67 at full with a 90 degree flood and soft focus. Instruments 8 and 10 are in the downstage and center hanging positions that split center and SL; they are using gel R67 at full with a 90 degree flood and a soft focus. Instrument 9 is in line with instruments 8 and 10 at the upstage hanging position; it is using gel R67 at full with a 50 degree flood and a soft focus.

There is a flood of white light that gives off the harsh white hue that Winter air seems to have. The flood of blue is the Sun’s Winter Light, and the more distinct blue beam shows where the Sun’s afternoon light is directly coming from.

1. Thursday, April 7th, around 11:50pm. Driving on Oak Street and passing Napolini Express.
2. The restaurant was visibly closed and a dim red light filled the restaurant. The store sign was still lit up, and there were street lamps in the parking lot.
3. The lighting of Oak street was very consistent, a street light every couple of yards) as we continued our journey back to Hofstra University from the Mineola train station. Then when we came across the light right before the Hofstra University light, I noticed  striking red light to my left. It gave the street a pleasant contrast, after having so much of the same lighting. It also gave the street life in a way; even though the shop was closed, and the street was practically dead, it told a story. Obviously, the story is in the eye of the beholder, but it allowed me to appreciate lighting in a new way, with a new story that I hadn’t seen before.

1. This is a stock photo that I found on Google.
2. Theme: Spring
3. I chose this picture because I felt that the warmth of the light gives a good contrast to the harsh light I associate with Winter. When I think of Spring lighting, I think of a warm light that the Earth will want to absorb, or a light that invites life. I find this to be the opposite if the lighting I associate with Winter, which is almost like a light that is being reflected off of the Earth, not giving life at all, but almost taking it away. The warm light that reflects pink from the clouds captures Spring perfectly, and as the Sun is setting it almost looks like the flowers are leaning towards it as if to get as much life as possible out of that light until it greets them again at sunrise.