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Berkoff Metamorphosis, Design, Exam help

LIGHTING QUESTION FOR ‘METAMORPHOSIS’

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As a designer, outline your ideas for lighting this extract. Explain and justify how these would help to create an appropriate mood and atmosphere at this point in the play.

Extract used P109-112

Read the extract IN FULL

In pairs / small groups take EACH of the MOMENTS identified below and MIND -MAP (15 mins) the information you think is relevant to answer the question. [Include a diagram for the placement of the lights]

Your conversation needs to be FULL of the vocabulary of lighting (placement, type of lights, colour, special effects and over all MOOD /ATMOSPHERE)

MOMENT 1 = The apple throwing

MOMENT 2 = ‘New scene’ Bottom of P110/111

MOMENT 3 = ‘Gregor’s Dream’ P112

  1. Create a MIND-MAP that has 1 introduction (with an overview of the context of the extract, your AIMS (affecting the audience) or how lights assist with Berkoff’s/Kafka’s style)
  2. 2-3 paragraphs where you EXPLAIN and JUSTIFY specific ideas/moments with terminology

(If time allows) Present ONE of your ideas/moments to the class.

IN CLASS you will write out your answer to the above question.

You may use your notes

You should attempt to have 5 quotes

You must have a diagram (but take no more than 5 mins producing it) TIP: your diagram isn’t meant to show ALL your lights for ALL of your ideas -use the diagram to ‘explain’ your most ambitious idea and refer to the diagram in your writing when you get to that bit of your answer.

EACH of your paragraphs should address one of the MOMENTS specified above.

THIS WORK WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE MARKING CRITERIA

Berkoff Metamorphosis, Design

Lighting ‘Metamorphosis’

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The aim of the next 2 lessons is to:

  • Understand the principles of lighting design
  • Know what lights create what effects
  • Build subject specific vocabulary
  • Give opportunities to be creative / experiment using a light simulator

Task 1a: In Pairs, discuss for 5 mins ‘why lights are needed in theatre?‘ (Shakespeare didn’t use them!)

  • Functional lighting
  • Emotive lighting (effects designed to cause/reflect an emotion)

Task 1b: Define what each term means and provide an example from the play. (Look at the 1st 2 photos if you need help).

  • A cyclorama light
  • Side lights
  • Top lighting
  • Foot lights
  • Specials
  • High Side Gobos
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Back lighting = silhouette

Task 2: (20 minutes) Finding out what lights do (basic)

Create a Word Doc and print off by the end of the lesson.

*Take screen shots of each TYPE OF LIGHT to help YOU remember the effects created.

Log in to the website BELOW.

WEBSITE for lighting simulator

https://scenicandlighting.com/lightlab/

Set every light to zero (slide to the left).

Using 1 slider / light at a time, see what effects are created by using:

  • A cyclorama light
  • Side lights
  • Top lighting
  • Foot lights
  • Specials
  • GoBo’s (short for ‘go between’



Task 3: (20 minutes) Create a ‘lighting state’ for 2 chosen scenes in the play (using this website.)

CHOOSE A NON-NATURALISTIC SCENE /MOMENT AND A MORE NATURALISTIC SCENE / MOMENT.

In your Journal, you need to be able to:

  1. State the scene – location – time of day.
  2. Explain where lights are positioned, angled, focused and any colour choices, special effects (gobos?)
  3. Justify why you used these (in terms of the effects you wish to create eg: time / place / mood.)
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DISCUSS:

In 1910 what are the light sources available in an apartment rented by a ‘lower middle class family’ like the Samas. [THINK natural and artificial]

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