Theatre Tour Experiences

This is a picture of the dimmer at the ES theatre. I chose this picture because I realized that not only does the booth control the lights but this machine helps control the brightness of the lights, so I found it pretty interesting getting to see and learn about this machine.

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This is a picture of the booth in the MS/HS theatre, this booth is not an open house and is enclosed. I chose this picture because I finally had the chance to see where most of the light and sound are being controlled from. This space acts as the main control room of the theatre where most of the time directors stay in the booth when the show is running.

This picture captures the top view of the layers of curtains in the theatre. I chose this picture because after the tour I had a better understanding of how tall the theatre actually was. After touring, this space gave me a better idea of how the curtains were layered as it is important to know how to work with the curtains.

This is the cyclorama in the ES theatre. Although the cyclorama in this theatre is much smaller than the theatre in the MS/HS theatre, I found out that not only is the size of the cyclorama incredibly large but it is quite heavy (same with the curtains). In theatre, a cyclorama is a background that covers the back, cyc lights can evenly wash the cyclorama or create the illusion of sky, open space, or great distance at the rear of the stage setting.

Lighting Big Ideas

In this lightning design lab, I focused mainly on shadow and how it interacts with light, the video gives off a scary but warm feeling as lightning strikes outside what is supposedly a cabin. In the short video, my scene is draped with a white piece of cloth acting as a cyclorama, using flashlights as a source of light I used tape and colored sharpies to create a color gel for the light. A paper cut out of a human figure was used to cast a shadow onto the cyclorama when the flashlight was flickering. I also experienced using different lighting angles during the shoot especially when I wanted to achieve the lightning effect.

Before I knew much about lighting I never considered how the angles of which light is shining could affect the overall emotion of the scene, I used to think that lighting was always light coming from the top. But now that I had experience with lighting angles and set up my own small stage I feel like I’ve understood more about the process of lighting up a stage.