Lighting Journal Entry 5

Prompt

Watch the video embedded below of Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Make notes of the conductor’s and musician’s interpretation and expression of the music. Listen to the piece without watching the video. Make sketches and written notations of how you might interpret and express the music through light. What direction, color, and textures do you imagine? What painting(s)/photos, memories, stories, or imagery come to mind? Upload your paintings, photos, drawings, and notations to your portfolio.

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Sketchs

Lighting Design Concept Statement:

Copland Appalachian Spring is a story about a growing beanstalk grown through magic slowly brining a family of mice to unite with a family of cats in a celebration.

Story:

-Moment 1 Story: There is a seed of an ungrown beanstalk in a grassy field

-Moment 1 Music: Slow melody that goes back and forth

-Moment 2 Story: Duck uses duck wizard magic on the beanstalk to start the beanstalk to rapidly grow piercing the cloud. There is a windmeal in fiels background

-Moment 2 Music: Rapid increase of melody that starts with drum crash. The rapid upstepping meldoy reminds me of music stylistically that might accompy the background of a windmill town

-Moment 3 Story:Beanstalk slowly wavers in the wind

-Moment 3 Music: Melody takes on a more gentle tone

-Moment 4 Story: Tiny playfull mice running around and playing on a beanstalk

-Moment 4 Music: Melody increases tempo. A marching nature to the music.

-Moment 5 Story: Beanstalk once again growining

-Moment 5 Music: Music growing. Melody Continues.

-Moment 6 Story: Tiny mice now in clouds going to visit their cat friends in the cat castle in the clouds.

-Moment 6 Music: Evolution of previous section of music. Triangle part in music possibily.

-Moment 7 Story: Feast

-Moment 7 Music: Very grand and strong conclusion with all insturments come together.

Lighting Cues:

-Cue 1 Time: 1 Minute. Effects: Green Wash On Negative Space. This Green Wash has Cloud Shadow Gobo on Part of It. Pool of White Light Oon Orchastra

-Cue 2 Time: 3 Seconds. Cue Line: Auditory Cue on Drum Crash. Purple Light Starts to Cross stage sideways (takes 25 seconds to cross stage). Pool of light on orchastra changes color to green. Cloud gobo effect gone. Windmill Gobo Effect now added.

-Cue 3 Series 2 Seconds Each cue Sade of Green on Left Side Changes. Than in next cue sade of green on right side changes and sade of green on right side goes back to orginal sade of green. So on and so forth.

-Cue 4 Series Intial Time 2 Seconds. Pool of Light On Orcastra Now Same Shade of Green as the Green Wash as Rest of Stage. Cyc lights added in maroon shade. Fog machine effect goes off near cyc. Brown light spots cross stage. The moving of the spots is what makes this cue a series instead of a singluar cue.

-Cue 5 Time: 7 Seconds. Everything from cue 4 series dissolves into green wash.

-Cue 6 Series Intial Time: 10 Second. Pink gel-ed fixture with flower gobo cutout hits on upstage center. Castle projected on cyc. White wash on stage. Brown spot from cue 4 series returns.

Cue 7 Time: Initial Time 30 Seconds. Red Blue Yellow triangles appear on stage (uses gobo). Pink cyc lights. Purple pool cast on orchastra. Small amount of fog on stage center right part of stage. Triangles pulsate at a base of 1 second intivals in cues the automatically follow the activation of the first cue