Design the lights for a play

Lighting Design for the Lion King

Lighting is a very important part of a production. There is so much involved in lighting. I am going to design the lighting for The Lion King. With the help of the internet I am not going to have any problems finding visuals that will help me further explain and show why I am choosing the lighting design that I am. I am going to choose different colors of lights to express where the scene is taking place and to set the mood and emotions for a scene in the play.
A little background on The Lion King is that it is supposed to become the eighth longest running show in Broadway history. The Lion King opened on Broadway in 1997 and it raised the bar for all the Broadway musicals to follow. The Lion King is a great performance to go see and there are so many lighting designs that go into the making of the lion king.
The Lion King is about how the king of all lions, Mufasa, has a baby lion named Simba. This makes Mufasa’s brother Scar very mad because he was supposed to be next in line to be king. Scar plans to kill Mufasa and Simba. Mufasa ends up getting killed and Simba is told that it is his fault. Scar then becomes king since Mufasa is dead. Simba grows up and returns with some friends and battles Scar and he ends up becoming king. There are many scene settings for this play. There are scenes in the desert and in the jungle, and there are also scary scenes, and happy scenes. I will be designing the lighting for all these different scenes in the play.
Now I will begin to describe my lighting design for the play with the help of visuals.



I will use orange and yellow lighting when there is a scene in the desert. The colors orange and yellow are hot colors and in the desert it is very hot in temperature because the sun is beating down on you.


























I will use blue and green lighting when there is a scene in the jungle. Blue and green are cooler colors and in the jungle is it cooler in temperature because the trees provide shade.





















When it comes to a scary scene, the stage will be all black and only have a little white light on the stage. This lighting will cause a dark affect and make the scene scarier and create suspense.






















When it comes to a happy scene, the stage will be all lit up and consist of a bunch of pretty and bright colors. This lighting will case a happy mood for the audience.

Design the set for a play

Set Design for the Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I really enjoyed doing the blog option of finding a costume for a play so I decided to do this one and design a set for another play. I chose to do the play The Adventures of Tom Sawyer because I have seen it before and I really liked it. I am going to be designing the scene that involves the fence being white washed.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is by Mark Twain and it opened on Broadway at the Minskoff Theater on April 26, 2001. The setting for it place around the 1840’s.
The general overview of the play is that Tom Sawyer is a young adventurous boy and he lives with his aunt and half brother. Tom is constantly getting into trouble and for one of his punishments he has to white wash a fence. Tom liked a girl named Becky and at first she doesn’t really like him. Huck is a kid that lives in the woods and he and Tom become pretty good friends. Tom and Becky sneak off in a cave that has treasure in it and they get lost. A scary man tries to get them but Huck shows up and helps them. They all three make it out alive and discover the treasure that was hidden in the cave. At the end, Becky and Tom like each other and Huck moves out of the woods and into the town.
The scene that I am going to design is the scene where Tom has to white wash the fence because he got in trouble for doing something wrong. Tom starts whitewashing the fence but it is a really big fence and it is a very boring task. Tom pretends like it is a lot of fun and he gets his friends to help so he don’t have to do it and the job goes a lot quicker.



This is what the stage will look like. It is a very nice theater, but just a simple stage. The stage is large enough for the scenes and will allow for a lot of movement.











This dirt will be spread on the stage and flattened because this will represent the ground for the scene. The dirt will make it look more real. The dirt will make the road the runs along the fence where the kids stand while whitewashing the fence.










This will be the fence that goes on the stage. It will be placed the whole way across the stage so that the audience can see that there is a lot of fence that Tom has to white wash. It is an old fence. This Fence is what Tom has to white wash for his punishment.










These will be the buckets that the whitewash goes in. These buckets will be along the fence.















These will be the paint brushes that the kids will use while whitewasing the fence. They are large wooden paint brushes.












This is Tom Sawyer who is the main character of the play.













These are Tom Sawyer’s friends that help him whitewash the fence.











When everything is put together, these three pictures represent what the scene will look like.