Week 10 Lighting Disney Fieldtrip

We had so much fun going out to Downtown Disney! Me, Yasmin, Erika and a couple friends went up to Anaheim tonight and saw the sparkly Christmas Disney lights. Overall, I completely forgot how magical this place is, and I'm glad I got to revisit it with a lighting perspective in mind. The angles and colors of these compositions make an unbelievable atmosphere. Disney would simply not be Disney without the artistry of the lighting designer. There was everything from color changing LEDs to lamps reflecting off of shiny copper to make pink light- Downtown Disney is a lighting playground.

House of Blues had everything going right. This corner behind the dining area was especially well put together. With a blue overhead source, the room was already lit fairly well. It had a dreamy blue glow about it. Then, the artwork was lit with a warm (no color) light. The room had so much atmosphere. It feels worldly, and sexy and fun. I tried to imagine the setting with classroom fluorescents, and was repelled. Literally, all of the atmosphere and appeal would be gone. It's incredible. By using lots of cools in the internal lighting composition of this restaurant, they were able to highlight focus points in the room with warmer brighter beams without giving the atmosphere to much overall reveal. This restaurant has focus and visibility while maintaining a whole lot of mystery.

Honestly, finding locations to critique was more difficult than I thought it would be. Although there was a large variety of atmospheres, more of them seemed to fit what they were selling. As suggested, I looked for stores that had no one inside of them. Sunglass Hut was literally empty. Sure, it's December, but still. Not a soul. The lighting inside was bright, fluorescent, and overbearing. Once I was noticing all of this incredible saturate beautiful multi angled lighting everywhere else it became so clear why I wasn't into sunglass hut. It's like standing in a brightly lit wear house. No fun. No-one would want to go in there, although I must say, if the goal was to make you want sunglasses, that is one way of approaching it.