Lighting Ideas/Concerns for Act 3
Sorry for the interspersed postings, I just have a few reactions to other peoples posts.
I second Jenna in that I would love to have either paper or petals on the ground for Act 4 (and I would personally volunteer to be the crew member that sweeps up the paper/petals each night!)
Also, I love the night-time blue/grey lighting of Michy's painting for the third act. I think the main challange of lighting the third act will be to maintain the night setting and mood while still lighting the individual singers well enough so that we can read their faces. I vote that we use more lavender tinted filters for this scene because the Stage Lighting Handbook says that lavenders are "particularly sympathetic to faces" and work well with other lights in that they can appear warm or cold (82). Also, it says we should avoid blues with green content because they can be unflattering for the actors. I know we have spotlights that we'll probably end up using a lot, but I think they can be kind of harsh sometimes (depending on how dark the rest of the stage is and what the singer is standing in front of) and I believe we only have two spots (which would pose a challange when, for example, we want to light Carmen, Don Jose and Michaela all at the same time.)
