I was luck enough to be able to see the incredible show
Something Rotten at Segerstrom theatre. I then was lucky enough to then come back and shadow the show. It was amazing to see the show from both area and even more interesting to see some of the great shifts and movements backstage. The back stage is not tiny but with over a dozen actors, 30 crew members and plus a moving 3 piece elizabethian round theatre set. With all of this I really noticed how the lighting design really created and supported this small stage a huge life full of depth. Even in this picture taken from the house the stage is in the pre-show cue. The sign look like a piece of fabric hung over a back wall that is set upstaged the proscenium arch. However that is just a drop and it hangs just over 3 feet upstage of the pit. The use of shadows, texture are color by lighting really gives a lot of depth and they use these elements through out the show, to support the scene shift from inside a home, to a park concert, to a busy dark neighborhood. Very successful, and exciting to see.
Nice image and a great example of light creating depth. Depth in lighting can be seen in many ways but most importantly is in composition, without a 3 dimensional environment and the use of varying foreground and background the eye cannot differentiate space. This can be clearly seen in a digital rendering that has not been lit, or in reality, in a room lit entirely with fluorescent light - the eye simple does not know where to look, so it can be tricked as to where depth truly exits.
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