Lighting Design.

When it came to designing the lights I began to look at the script scene by scene to decide what the mood of each scene was, for example if the scene features an argument in or if the general mood of the scene is a happy one. Once our stage was set and I knew where items were going to be placed I could begin to design the lights. One of the key themes of our play was the feeling of corruption in a fairy tale world. I wanted to contrast the fairy tale image with the use of a natural lighting state in the bedroom and piano room to give the illusion that the world of the play is not a fairy tale despite what  some characters might believe. The piano room was set up stage left and the bedroom up stage right and to link the two together, whenever a character moved directly from the two sections of the stage, a thin natural white light would act as a corridor so the character moving would be lit, and also this would give the feeling that the character is remaining within the castle. I wanted to give the middle of the stage the illusion that it was outside and not apart of the castle. To do this I used the colour green to symbolise the outdoors. The final scene of the bloody chamber I had problems with designing because the scene would be set centre stage. I originally thought to light the stage red to symbolise death and danger but decided on a natural lighting setting. I chose this because I wanted to show that the bloody chamber, in the world of the play, is a real place, it is reality and it is apart of the castle so it would have the same lighting as the piano room and the bedroom.