Week 10: Pizza Man, and our last classes

Well I guess I'm going to start with first things first, our programming class! It was really interesting, and if that was just a light overview, I can't even imagine how dense and tricky the class is going to be in the fall. I'm looking forward to finding out though! I now have a pretty good understanding on how to choose what instrument you want to use for different areas of light. Using the 50 degree as a starting point on 1x1 is really helpful. Also very easy to remember when I'm stressing during plotting class! More things to consider than just the size is what color you want to use and what angle you're going to shoot the light from, and how far away you're shooting from! It's a lot to consider. That's why this is where you decide if it's really for you or not! On top of all that, you have to plot it on the computer- you can use 3d models which seem pretty effective, but I can already tell that as a designer it's going to be a lot of long nights.

Onto the last class,  I loved the dramatic imagination. I think I liked it best out of everyone in the class. I was extremely impressed with the poetic writing and how the book was abundant with examples. A lot of them were from plays I was familiar with. Even if I wasn't I could see it all in my head because of the way he described it all so well. There are many quotes I've saved for later inspiration. 

Pizza man was a really interesting show! I've decided I'm not going to research any play before I go, because then I get surprised with everything that happens. The plot of this story was interesting, and hearing Yazmin talk about how she read this play as much more serious made a lot of sense to me. It was an interesting spin and it could go either way. I think that the lighting shifts would be difficult to work with because it all takes place in the same space and it was a realistic show. I think that she was effective in her color choice for the apartment, there was a lot of variety while still being pretty tightly bound together. I didn't notice the changes happening until they were already over! Great job on the timing of those Yazmin! Something that I thought was less effective was the window gobo. I really liked what was done with it, for example how in the scene where they turn the lights off the only illumination comes from the window. What my issue was with it was that there was already a window on stage, and in an apartment I couldn't really figure out what that source would come from. I was trying to imagine it at the top floor with some sort of window from the ceiling, but even then how would these totally broke girls be able to afford that? Most apartments have really low ceilings and I couldn't really see that window being there. That's super nit picky, but just something I thought of as an audience member. I really liked this show, and I was totally intrigued the whole way through. Great work and a really great show!