#lighting designer problems

[littlefrenchbusybee]

Oh good guess who forget ey had to go to the theatre for another three hours tonight. I'll give you a hint. ME.

[coyotepup345]

Laziness?

I could be doing homework...

Instead I'm browsing through various artists and art sites for research images for possible future lighting needs.

...

I legit don't know if this is being productive or not, lol.

On one hand, having a collection of research images is going to be incredibly useful for future design jobs. On the other hand, I am getting nothing done for my vectorworks homework that is due on Monday. Ugggghhhhh... Theatre life.

:3

[housetohalf]

my lighting designer boyfriend's phone autocorrrected parking to PARcan.

Sounds about right.

[astudyintheatredesign]

Ugh I just posted some of the pictures I took from photocall for No Exit on facebook and looked at them on the school computer and holy shit my computer has terrible resolution.  I used 'vivid' in some of those pictures (yay point and shoot cameras) and on my computer they look great but on here they look like shit.  TOO much color.

ARGH.

Can't fucking wait to get a real DSLR.

Really I just wish someone would invent something to put into a film SLR camera (since I have plenty of those) that can convert an image into a digital one.

Please?

[thenon-existentknight]

I'm trying to remember that I have a life outside this show right now, and it's not doing any good. The more stressful and overwhelming it gets, the more I feel the need to devote all my time to getting it right. I was adamant from the start that I couldn't do any work on Wednesday, and I needed to get everything done by tonight. Obviously everything isn't done and now I'm contemplating skipping things I can't possibly skip in order to have the show ready by Thursday night. There just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I need/want to do.

[hard-travellingtoo-blog]

"three white LED's omit a natural light" dont make me kill you

[renegade-bisexual-dog-stealer]

I'm beginning to feel about Glee's lighting designer the way I felt about my last director. Yes, white backlight is really cool, but if you use it in every fucking scene, it starts to lose its effectiveness.

[renegade-bisexual-dog-stealer]

I swear Glee's lighting designer has a personal vendetta against me

Or possibly against frontlight. What did front light ever do to you, huh?

Like, ok, I understand going through artistic phases where you discover some effect and suddenly it's the best thing ever. I wanna have a white high backlight in every show I ever design from now until forever. But not in every SCENE. Yes, the whole sweeping spot thing is a cool effect, but effects are only EFFECTIVE if they GO WITH THE SCENE YOU'RE USING THEM FOR. You don't just get to do it for every goddamn song. It's like they think that actually being able to see people's faces consistently is unartistic. And it's so frustrating because they're clearly a tv designer and not a stage designer because if they were a stage designer, every director they'd ever worked with would have BEATEN IT OUT OF THEM. And it's particularly frustrating because they have so much equipment oh god I would kill for a budget like that to do something meaningful instead of just fucking around and doing the same thing for every freaking performance. *end rant*