LIGHTING: Ideas

Question 1

Lighting for exit or entry?

Answer 1

Backlighting from Fresnel behind door- 70% intensity- soft yellow

Side lighting- creates chiaroscuro

Impact: dramatizes the impact of entry of exit

For example; if its all eyes on door and the constable enters (its underwhelming- comic effect) yet if its pissani rushing out- highlights movement

Question 2

Lighting for moment on window or for a character who’s just been found out?

(include how the cue might differ)

Answer 2

Special: Profile, hard edged beam on window at 80% intensity (decide cue based on suitability)

If its a character who’s been found out/ accused: freeze frame, snap cue on character!

top lighting- ominous effect- draws audiences’ attention

Question 3

How would you create the beaucrocratic effect of office?

Answer 3

1) General sepia wash on stage gel- 60% intensity
2) Wide lens profile with soft edged beam in white gel- 70% intensity over desk

Impact: generate harsh, draining light (perhaps synonymous w/ harsh bureaucracy of police force)

Special- flickering on and off

• raises questions of under funding to a modern audiance

Question 4

What do moments of non-naturalistic lighting do?

Answer 4

Create contrast to moments of naturalism- breaks immersion- highlights farce and thematic nature of play

Question 5

How would you position the lights?

Answer 5

I would leave them exposed from the rafters- metatheatrical