Week 8: Depth
This week’s theme was difficult for me to find images for. However, I found inspiration on the drive home this weekend. It was really stormy. The light broke through the clouds. For me, the clouds captured depth through the variance of light, which resulted in changes of the intensity of color. I feel that the storm clouds acted as a natural cyc for my drive. It establishes distance between me and what would be the back wall. This sparks ideas as what to do with the cyc. It also gets the mind into thinking about various ways to uses gobos and shadows to establish distance and depth for the piece, especially if the characters are traveling in the play or if the distance serves a symbolic purpose.
Nice depth! Your comments made me think of Brady's cyc for Metamorphoses. The way we add depth to our cycs can be by adding layers of different fabrics, colors, textures, paint, etc. He had smooth cyc lights with textured lekos on a textured/painted cyc and it looked beautiful! Great observations!
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