Week 10 post, People Meat in Pies

This is a picture I took of my friends Billy and Kevin performing a Greek tragedy for their Classics class. What interested me about this was how this natural lighting affected this theatrical lighting. I thought of how the Greeks and Romans performed in natural light. This stage obviously is much more modest than their grand theatrical bowls. This stage was covered by shadows with a few splotches of light shining through the foliage. What mostly was lit was the vast collection of greenery behind them. This drew my eyes up, as you can see my camera did as well. While this was somewhat distracting to the performance, i found that it added a grandness to the performance. By illuminating such a natural and huge back drop, I was able to listen to the story and reflect on how the base violence of humanity effects me today. The play was about a brother who fed his brother his sons flesh in a pie. Atreus I think was one of them.

Week 8 Blog Post

This picture I took when leaving work just outside downtown as it was raining. It took this because I was struck by how bright the light shone in the rain, on the wall and on the ground. The contrast between the dark sections of the street, and the sky compared to the bright sections was really intriguing. For each pool of light, there is a clear source of light and color for that light. The clear white light shining against the wall and in the rain comes from a little white circle that reminded me of the moon. The white light is then replicated in the distance on the street, suggesting almost a path in the street. It reminds me of the moonlight shining on the ocean, showing a path along the waves. The floating orange balls of streetlight in the dark sky also strike me. I liked the way that the rain caused each of them to glow. The rain does cool things to light

Extra Credit Blog - Yuting Zhang - the wizarding world of Harry Potter

I choose this picture for the overall feel of the wizarding world of Harry Potter in universal studio. This section restores Hogwarts castle, and shops from the wizarding world in the movie Harry Potter. The lighting design for this attraction is pretty simple. Orange and warm lamp light and the mixtures of blue and purple, cool light form the whole lighting of the magical world. The lighting designer wants to restore the exact look of wizarding world in the movie, and the design works for such purpose. Because of the limited use of lights, I can barely see the figure of the castle. The roof of the castle seems hidden in the sky. The use of limited lighting creates a mysterious and fantastical atmosphere. Such atmosphere matches the way that people should feel about Hogwarts, the wizard school, for the wizarding world is an unknown world, and cannot really exist. The lighting designer is smart about using little light to create the right atmosphere. Because of the limited lighting, people cannot see the wizarding world clearly. The wizarding world seems to hide a secret from people, which attracts people to explore the world more.





This picture shows the roof of a normal shop in wizarding world. From the snow on the roof, clearly the magical world is in winter season. The lighting designer uses a cool blue light to lighten the roof. The cool blue light is like a winter moonlight, and the use of globo creates certain patterns on the roof. These patterns are like the shadow of trees' branches and leaves while moonlight is lighting through the trees. The lighting makes me feel this house should be deep in forest, far away from normal world. The warm lamp light makes a huge contrast with the cold blue moonlight. The lighting helps me to feel that even though this wizarding world is very mysterious and far away from our normal world, the world is real, for it seems like there are many wizards live in this world. The cool moonlight makes the world mysterious, and the warm lamp light gives me feeling of home and crowds, the feeling that people living in such a mysterious world.




This is the picture of a gate from the wizarding world, I like how limited lighting the designer uses to create a mysterious and unknown atmosphere. It is very dark, and there are only several lamp lights on. The orange lights along side of the road lead people to an unknown place. We don't know where the road leads to, due to the darkness. The darkness creates the mysterious feeling, and makes me curious and excited about where the road leads. Usually people feel scared about unknown place. But for this one, I won't, because the warm lamps make me feel safe and the lights seem to welcome people to get in and explore the mysterious world.

Extra Credit Blog- Natalie Makel - Disneyland

I chose this photo for the overall feel of Disneyland for a couple key reasons. First, the Christmas tree is clearly whimsical. It has funny angles, is overly large, and looks like a cartoon. All of those describing phrases are what Disneyland is though. Disneyland is an escape for reality, so it makes sense that nothing would be realistic or normal. Next, the tree was a seasonal ornament- no pun intended. Disneyland was in transition from Halloween to Christmas; so, I liked that the tree was a spooky, scary, Christmas tree. The lighting is also mainly in the tree. The branches are almost too dark to see, but the beautiful purple and warm amber ornaments cast gorgeous shadows along the curving, spiral tree. The designer was successful in trying the capture a dark, fantastic, festive item.

The next area depicted is the inside of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. The chandelier’s lights were functional, but also dramatic. I really imagined that this chandelier was on board The Black Pearl. I could see and hear the clinking of the crystal as the ship would hit rough water. Pirates of the Caribbean is set in the early 16^th century and this chandelier very much envelops that time period. The designer was so smart to incorporate function lighting with a realistic period piece.

This next photo was taken inside The Haunted Mansion. The overall theme of the area was old and a little spooky. I think the stained glass is awesome because the lighting designer had to create the “sunlight” behind it – it was not positioned in a way where the stained glass had access to natural light. The purpose of this light was to add to the older feel of the mansion because stained glass is not an everyday occurrence. I think the designer’s intentions were successful in regards to this lighting element.

Week # 10 Yuting Zhang

People use fake candles to lighten the pictures of black who killed by the police at the center of quad. The light of candles is warm subtle which creates a sense of hope. The pictures are lightened from the bottom, which create a ghost feeling environment. This ghost feeling environment fits the fact that the photos are photos of dead people.  The intensity of light is so soft that makes people more sensitive and easier for them to feel mourning.

Week 10 - Rob Turner

This view drew my attention because of how the street light blended in a little bit with the sunset. My iPhone camera doesn't quite do it justice - but I am interested in how the fluorescent lights can blend well together with the natural colors of the sunset. Additionally, I like how the streetlights continue to travel down the cement path at an angle, while the colors of the sunset are almost perpendicular to the streetlights. What colors blend well together, to paint a complete picture on stage? Also, on stage, I would be interested to see how angles can have an impact on a particular scene.

Week 10 - Aiden Giuffre

This is light through the blinds in my room across my dresser. I thought it was interesting because it was so directional and well defined. We often use goboes in the theater to imitate light through blinds, but I rarely see the narrow striations and fade from top to bottom in artificial imitations of this effect. The other interesting part of this image has to do with color interactions between light on lit. Even though we know sunlight has a blue color to it, one could be forgiven for seeing this image and deciding the sun was golden or yellow. Contrasting the lit dresser, the skull, or the box of soda to the dark dresser reveals just how important lighting is to creating visually appealing scenes. For even more contrast her is the same shot by fluorescent light at night:

In my opinion the sunlight provides the "best" visual experience of a dresser, but each has their own message.