This first photo I feel does a pretty decent job of showing off how lighting has the ability to help convey the mood to the audience. This photo was taken from a 12 Angry Men stage performance, and I think that this lighting does help push the greater mood of the entire performance. I feel like this lighting does a good job of creating initial tension, while also not being too gaudy. This seems like the way the lighting would likely be for the beginning of the play.
This photo also does a really good job of conveying the overall mood of the scene as well. This seems to be a scene where there has likely been a natural disaster or some other type of destructive mishap. The cold blue light, which is washing the stage and the majority of the actors, is then accentuated by the highlights of the warmer amber light onto the "living" actors. It creates this weird mixed feeling of hope that these characters will be able to stay alive, but at the same time knowing that death is an immediate possibility for any of them.
I really like the use of lighting in the first scene of the classroom. The shadows caste by the shades on the wall and the dark background create tension in the scene.
ReplyDeleteI think in the first image, the lighting not only gives the audience a sense of the time of day, but it also gives a sense that something has happened or will happen. I get a feeling of completeness like the day is ending. In the second picture, the blue lighting works to make the audience feel despair. It also resembles moonlight. The man on the ledge is like a symbol of hope which is resembled by the yellow or ordinary light.
ReplyDeleteI think the second photo does a great job of incorporating both warm and cool tones which create a mood of hope altogether. The cool and dark blue hues of the left side of the room create a very dark and hopeless mood in the room. When the warm light comes in from the top right side it creates a feeling of warmth through a window, ultimately setting a hopeful mood.
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