Week 6- Jenisse Castillo

Everyone has days where you just sit in your car and drive. These are most of my days. I spend most of my week in a car commuting to school. While many people hate driving, I love it. It's the place where I can sit and either think about what my day will be like, or reflect on it. This particular day I was in the car with a friend. We were listening to music and just driving around town. Prior to this, I had asked my friend to drive past my grandmothers house which I hadn't been to since she passed away. With Mother's Day on my mind, I really wanted to pass by and see her house. Though she passed away a years ago, she is still in my heart.
Soon after we passed her house, we ended up on this road that overlooked the hills. We sat in silence looking out at the sunset. I thought about my grandmother and how much time I spent in her neighborhood, and even though I hadn't been there for years, as soon as we went there I had all these memories flash back to me. I looked at the different colors that were in the sky. It created that inner peace for me. It was similar to the feelings I have when I drive to school, that reflection. If put on the stage, I would want to create that same gradient of light. With the blue and the blend of orange to create that peace, and try to grasp the memories. The intensities would have to be dim, to create that grey in the sky, but also not to dim where the lights would not show the colors. I would most lleikyl use Fresnel to create that blurred effect.

Week 5 Texture

This Victorian house in Angelino Heights can be found in a row of similarly dated houses from an era in which life's troubles were not as diverse nor complex as today. This image has textures of shadows across the front and side of the house. The neighboring tree creates an umbrage seen along the face of the house. The two dimensional texture thrown unto the white paint can be conveyed on a set with a patterned gobo. I can picture a porch swing rocking back and forth as a young couple hesitantly converse about a possible romance together as the sole of their shoes drag along the floor boards. Each gentle push of their foot building a kind of momentum inching them closer to the side light of sun beams hitting the lovers' eyes quite intently.

Week 6

I took this picture while leaving the hospital from visiting my Grandma. I liked the way the sunset was between these two buildings and the trees in between them. I like the colors that the sun is giving the sky, peach, with some orange and yellows, and some red. I took this picture because I liked the shades of color I seen, but after staring at it on the way home I felt I was on the dark side. On the other side of the building was the light, the better of a situation. The source of the light is of course the sun, but it's not coming from above as I would assume where the sunlight source would come from. The light seems as if coming from down under.

Week 6 Karen Arana

I took this picture last Sunday when I went hiking at Griffith Park.  There is a little garden in a section right next to the hiking trail and there is this “pila de agua” where dogs can drink. I took this picture because there was shade and the water looked very refreshing.

I also took this picture because I immediately thought about using a gobo to replicate this shot. The source of light is from the early morning sunlight and therefore I can use a leko brushstroke to get a strong sunlight. I would also use shin lights at a low intensity to illuminate this area. I would use the shin lights as compared to sidelights or front lights because a sidelight or front light would light the floor too much. Therefore, shin lights would be my choice of brushstrokes in order to keep the shadows while still illuminating the area. I would use an amber color gel to give it a soft touch. The shadows provided by the gobos would add to the softness and coolness of this shot.

Better days

I took this picture while I was outside yesterday, and I really liked how the colors of the sky is bright in the picture and stands out the most as the trees are very dark almost as if it's the shadow of the trees. The clear almost circular shape towards the bottom right of the picture made me feel optimistic, since it's the only clear spot in the sky and everything else is cloudy and dark, just as when people say there's always a bright side to the darker days.  It made me feel as if there's still hope. If I were to light this on stage id use shin lights in r61 since it's a very light and natural blue . But I'd have the left shin light with r80 since it's more saturated dark blue at about 65%, just to show different shades of blue . Then I'd have the par can in R02 at about 85% to symbolize the clear area of the sky while the two different blues on the shin lights are lit to show different intensities .

Quiet and Beautiful

I took this photo on Wednesday in old town Pasadena. I was exiting a coffee shop and I felt very inspired when I saw this scenery. It was taken at around 6:30 in the afternoon so the sun was just about to set. I enjoyed how the buildings on the left cast a shadow but there was a walkway that allowed sunlight through and it hit the tree. I felt very relaxed and relieved that the day is going to end. 

The light I would use to create this feel is an Amber color coming from a sidelight using a frensel brushstroke. I'd use a white the diagonal front light that's on the opposite side of the sidelight just to light up the other side while adding dimension. This light would be at 50% intensity while the sidelight is at full. 

Week 5 - Azusa Metro Station

I took this picture upstairs at a Target near the Azusa Metro link station. It is hard to tell because of the glare, but there are two rows of street lamps paving a path for the cars to move through. It feels as though people are moving away from a place of luxury to an area of desolation. The glare of the lights mixed with the small shadow of the shopping cart gives this picture two personalities. It's as if the people in the cars were being drawn to the glare, only to be misled into a darker and less happy place. Because of the arrow, there is no turning back.