Drama 16 Stage Lighting

Time/Place: Wynwood Walls, October 26, 2019, 9:24pm

Theme: Romantic/Romance

Description: I took this picture while walking through the Wynwood Walls gallery. The lighting throughout the pathway was just like this, dark and shadowy. I felt this exhibited a romantic ambiance with the silhouettes casted against the bright paintings. The location gave me an intimate feeling and the darkness of the night eluded to that. The concentration of the spotlights also gives this feeling of admiration for me, shining light on the artwork. This is what romance looks like for me through light.

This photo is from the blog TheLiontheWitchandtheWardrobeMalfuctioned.wordpress.com, which took it in turn from the motion picture Pan’s Labyrinth.

The theme is cold, and the lighting is cold in this still image.

The lighting spreads a cool blue wash over the scene which gives a feeling of coldness to the beholder. It is like an ocean’s wave’s tears have gone and made themselves at home in the scene, but the tear drops do not fall everywhere. They leave some shadow to contrast the hue of the watery lighting. Due to their hue, soft illumination, and saturation, the wave’s tears, the lighting, might actually subconsciously induce feelings of cold. The lighting contains such a gloomy cold feeling that it touches the mind and instinctively prepares it for darker emotions like those that one might feel after watching someone suffer. The feelings of the lighting are sad, cold, and isolated. This lighting would fit well with a scene of someone stranded in the tundra. It is so cold that it can be seen as being devoid of the warm sunny day and something of the cold, dark night.