Saturday, December 1, 2012

Hamlet Essay Introduction


Bright and dark, warm and cool, these elements of lighting play a pivotal role in movies, manipulating the subconscious mind of the viewer into believing the fantasy of the director. Hamlet demands the best of a designer, the ability to create a space bright enough for camera but brining the darkness and gloomy air into the theatre and illuminating the minds of the audience to the subconscious messages of the play. In Zeffireli and Almereyda version of Hamlet the designers must balance the complex demands of lighting a show with a meaning that is difficult to over emphasize with the importance to minimize distractions to the audience, a challenge neither designer fully succeeds in alone.

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