birds’ eye view

Scoptophobia-the fear of being stared at
The eyes on the wall symbolize attention, judgment, and criticism, which are all the fears that a person who suffers from scoptophobia.
In the center of the stage, stands a display case. The cabinet is made out of glass, it represents the feeling of being displayed and being looked through. The barriers around the display case show the rejection of people and attention. I created a semicircle stage where the person is surrounded by the eyes. I think this helps the audience to feel and imagine the anxiety standing in the middle of all the attention.

The fear of being stared at. It varies in severity from person to person. Some people are afraid only when a stranger stares for a long period of time, while others fear even passing eye contact with a friend.

Scoptophobia.pdf

colorful, but strange

symbols: eyes-attention, judgment, criticism boxes: represents the person, wanting to hide himself transparent boxes: being see through

Scenic Design – The aspect of a production that gives a sense of ‘space” or location. Can be realistic or symbolic. Aids in creating ‘atmosphere’.

Mood board – A poster that contains imagery that will help focus the design or conceptual weight of a piece of theater

Thumbnail Sketch – quick sketch or drawing that becomes the starting point for a design

Stage configuration – the layout of a stage in the theater you are producing the play

Groundplan/’birds eye view‘ – the top-down look of the design gives you an idea of WHERE things are on stage

Elevation – the FRONT look of a design gives you an idea of what you will see when you are looking at the stage

Flat – A scenic piece that is used to build doorways and walls. Light, flexible, and can be built to order

Sight Lines – the view of an audience onto the stage. Sightlines are taken from many different seats to see what they see.

Masking flat – flats or curtains designed to ‘hide’ the elements of the stage we don’t want the audience to see

This picture shows a thrust stage. It is very interesting because the audience can sit around the stage, which is a very creative way to let the audience interact more with the actors. The different angles provide the audience with different perspectives. The thrust stage also provides the actors more space to perform; it creates a very unique shape of the stage.

This picture is of the booth in the MS/HS theatre. The booth controls the lighting, sound effects, and music with different types of equipment. Directers are able to see the stage very clearly through the booth.

This picture shows the cyclorama, a white sheet of fabric used as a background, helps create a clean background, so that the scene looks like a moving picture. There are also other background boards that can be placed in front of the cyclorama. The height of the theatre is very high so that the background board and the cyclorama can be fully raised up.

This is the dimmer room, the dimmers inside the room control all the power of the lights, every piece of lighting connects to one dimmer in the shelves.  The MS/HS theatre is an older theatre; the brightness of the lights can only be controlled by the dimmer room. If the power of the dimmer room connected to the lights is weaker, the lights are dimmer.

This picture shows most parts of the stage. I really like this picture because you can see how the stage is organized. The upper part of the photo shows the main stage, where actors are visible to the audience. The lower part shows parts of the backstage. The legs can help actors to hide behind it. There are also many lightings from two side of the stage.

“The clothes make the man”

This video shows an abandoned doll in the corner. I used spotlights and front lights to create the scene. The change of brightness of the front lights worked well in my scene. Every time the light is brighter it means hope for the doll, but as the lights fade, hope fades. The spotlights worked great as well, however, the distance between my camera and the scene was too close, I was not able to show that the spotlights are only shined on the doll.

I used to think there must be people in a scene, talking or doing expressions, in order to show the story. NOW I think just with light and music, I will be able to tell thousands of different stories. Overall, I think it is a fun experience to play with the light and music to create scenes.

I used to view lighting as a “not important” component in scene work, but as I learned more about lighting, I think lighting is more of a symbol, For example, in my video light means hope, in other plays, the light might represent living, by using color gels, lights can symbolize anything. In my future experiences, I will try to use the lighting skills and knowledge that I have gained to create scenes.