Our Town

University of Nevada, Reno Written by Thornton Wilder THTR 403 - Lighting Design Final Project

For this project, I endeavored to develop a lighting design, independently envisioning a director's vision. My primary concept was to achieve a sense of realization after life has passed you by. I see the central message of Our Town as encouraging the appreciation of the small things in life through the loss of the characters' ability/want to do so. What do we value in life? Should we value something else? What regrets do we hold when we no longer have the ability to make a different decision? I enjoyed playing with the sharpness of focus to portray that message.

Concept

The Goal: "Our town is about realizing the need to appreciate the little things in life, but only when it is too late. The lighting will utilize light tints and a shift from general and soft to hard and specific edge and focus to portray the slow realization and hard-hitting emotions of the characters and audience."

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