I recently have become involved with the lighting crew in the Theatre&Cinema Department. As in mastering anything, you have to start at the very basics and work up. I had to construct a light before I could even set a light or even think about mixing color papers. The Light Director, my new friend Kevin, was very patient with me as his right-hand man Scott (who is hilarious) taught me the way around the studio. Scott took me to all the odds and ends so that I would never be lost, and praised my every attempt. I burnt many a finger, and broke several nails, but I followed his word as it was law 57 feet above the theatre stage.
When he began to teach me about angling the lights, he told me "the director secret."
He pointed up to Kevin and said "I love that guy, he's amazing. But he's just like any other director. You can move a light around all day, and then get it to one spot that's close to what he wants. He can say 'shift it to the right just barely!' and you'll go to move it. You grab the light and it shakes a bit, but before you go to actually move it he'll yell 'STOP! That's it-lock!' Don't ever tell him you didn't actually move it. Just lock the light, and step away. To him, you just made his scene perfect."
Each of us sees the world from a different angle. We never quite understand what someone else is seeing until we walk all the way down to center stage and take a look. Even then, we might see something just a tad differently. It's okay- if we didn't then the world would never change!
Angles can be as big as a country divided about their government to two roommates (coughUScough) being divided on how clean the room should be. Sometimes you have to adjust and shift all day long before you can get it right. It's about moving so that you can both see the center stage- both see the action and enjoy it. It's a lesson we have to continue to relearn as we meet, work, and befriend new people.
It's all about the angle of the light.
Sometimes you just have to lock it, and step away.
Curl Girl, out!
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