Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1) Thursday February 17, 10:00, Outside Hofstra Hall

2) The light coming from Hofstra Hall is bright, and aimed right at me. It is white. There is other lighting coming from lamps. The moon is bright white and almost full.

3) The light aimed right at me is abrasive, and reminds me of a police interrogation. If I look up without being careful, I’m blinded for a second. However, it lights the whole area better than the side lamps, with their almost calming lighting that does little but to cast the area immediately surrounding them in a soft orange. The moon, meanwhile, serves as a great contrast. Just as white, whoever the moon does not blind, in fact, it is on and off blinded itself by the clouds.

1) 2/17/2011, 10:30 PM outside of Hofstra Hall

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: It is dark, and the moon has risen very high in the sky. There are streetlights on, as well as the lights on Hofstra Hall. There are a lot of clouds in the sky, but the moon is very bright and shines through them, helping the street lights to cast shadows of the actors rehearsing.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: It seems almost magical how the union of white moonlight and yellow lamplight blend to cast dark shadows along the brick in front of Hofstra Hall. The clouds above my head seem to have broken apart, and moonlight shines through them, as well as at one large hole in them, which is the perfect size to fit a nearly full moon