Actually Week 8: Focus and Nature

The nature walk, I think, was actually more interesting due to the cloud coverage. Indeed, it would have been nice to talk about the sunset, but we always see sunsets. We know how they can change rapidly to bold, crazy colors, and how they can range in transformation. The cloud coverage created a unique place for us to discuss the differences of stage and life. How, for example, life can be fairly sourceless, but would create poor composition on stage. Learning to observed, feel, and create the atmosphere of these sourceless moments was extremely helpful. I don’t think I can -right now- talk about the quality of the lighting outside very articulately, and well enough to place in a script treatment.

The traveling colors of the sun through the clouds also created extremely interesting colors and patterns (though it is not captured well in the pictures above).

I really love clouds. Like LOVE them. So I have a bunch of pictures of the setting sun in clouds, and though it might be good to post them here as sort of a taste of what we would have seen if the cloud coverage wasn’t so intense. The various stages of these different sunsets have very, very different color pallets. The clouds also create very different moods, which is interesting. The first picture has a more epic, heavenly feel.  The second picture has a more relaxed midwest sort of feeling. The 3nd picture down has a very beachy, relaxing feel. and the last one has sort of a mystical, almost doomsday, fantastical feel to it, that is very hard for me to describe because of the beautiful nature around it.

The above picture is a picture of the first system I focus at Trial. It was a much easier process than I would have thought, and I actually ended up focusing a lot by myself. The wall scrapes were really hard. It’s another puzzle in lighting design.