Week 8: Stages of Stage

I found "depth" to be an especially challenging subject to find in the everyday, but just when I'd all but given up hope, I sat down at the board in the Claire Trevor Theater and saw this.

There's a slight difference here in the quality of light between the apron and the main stage area, but much cooler, is the difference between the main stage area and the back wall. There is a transparent drop that adds a mist-like quality to the back wall. It also serves to separate the warm light in front from the industrial greenish light of the work lights behind the stage. 

I really like the way that the drop separates the stage into distinct sections and I'd be very interested in playing around with one to see all the different ways that I could use it with light. I'm also interested in this idea of progressive shifts in light over different slices of the stage. For example, I'm thinking of a how it could be used to create the effect of a creepy hallway that gets progressively darker towards the back. There are tons of possibilities here.