Trying to put a puzzle together is impossible without all the pieces. The same goes for learning, if one part is skipped the final lesson will be unable to be understood. With drama there are many intricate rolls that are each shaped uniquely much like a puzzle. If one piece is taken away, the final picture is not as beautiful or as meaningful as it could be. On top of the incomplete picture, there is a lack of learning for those who participate. The Kilgore High School drama department needs to upgrade their lighting system to give students an equal understanding of lighting in the theatre in full, such as the hanging, programing, and production process.
With a lack of lighting fixtures, students lack the ability to learn about the hanging …show more content…
While Kilgore High School has exposed lighting fixtures in addition to being able to control them all by individual sliders, making it highly difficult to operate multiple at a time, creates a very distracting environment for an audience. When there is a movement or change in lighting, our human instinct kicks in and tells us to look in that direction. Kilgore’s main lighting fixtures are located, and exposed, on either side of the house, where the audience sits. Of course they are more likely to be watching what is going on on stage, when a fixture turns on and all of a sudden creates a change in one’s peripheral, an audience member is bound to be distracted from the show. A technician at Kilgore must control every light on its own with multiple other lights, making it difficult to keep all the light at the the correct brightness for the correct area as to not distract the audience from the important action on stage. It is also true that audiences can become used to the changing of the lights, as well as understanding to when a mistake does happen, keeping an audience focused on the show, as well as entertained, not only helps with getting the story across but also interest. This genuine interest drives the support the theatre students need to be able to keep working with the art as well as feel successful with what they have
With a lack of lighting fixtures, students lack the ability to learn about the hanging …show more content…
While Kilgore High School has exposed lighting fixtures in addition to being able to control them all by individual sliders, making it highly difficult to operate multiple at a time, creates a very distracting environment for an audience. When there is a movement or change in lighting, our human instinct kicks in and tells us to look in that direction. Kilgore’s main lighting fixtures are located, and exposed, on either side of the house, where the audience sits. Of course they are more likely to be watching what is going on on stage, when a fixture turns on and all of a sudden creates a change in one’s peripheral, an audience member is bound to be distracted from the show. A technician at Kilgore must control every light on its own with multiple other lights, making it difficult to keep all the light at the the correct brightness for the correct area as to not distract the audience from the important action on stage. It is also true that audiences can become used to the changing of the lights, as well as understanding to when a mistake does happen, keeping an audience focused on the show, as well as entertained, not only helps with getting the story across but also interest. This genuine interest drives the support the theatre students need to be able to keep working with the art as well as feel successful with what they have