Lighting


 * Lighting**



=How is shadow and illumination used to represent ideas?= “The red On-Air sign lights up.” Lighting is used as a dramatic technique to enhance the setting implying a sense of connection with the audience. The red and white on air sign symbolises the Japanese flag, hence endowing the audience where the scene is established, which in this circumstance is Japan. This influences the audience to allure with the Shoe-Horn Sonata as they detain the purpose of the settings. This also implements character repercussion to the circumstance conducted upon them. Lighting techniques accentuate significance. This is an axiomatic through the bestow of ‘red’ and ‘white’ within this scene.

“By luck or a miracle...A blink of light.” This lighting technique emphasises the start of something new, or a new beginning. This is the brink of Bridie and Sheila in the War in Singapore and within their friendship and the beginning of their voyage to freedom within the play. The blink of light may also articulate a sense of awareness, catching the audience’s absorption and making them speculate as they endeavour and distinguish what is to come.