Will of the Muses (UIL OAP)

LEDs / SpecialsLighting Concepts

From confusion to thrill

Only a few seventh graders make the final UIL company, so when the list dropped and I received LEDs, I was surprised — and that surprise quickly turned into a thrill. I have a high natural sensitivity to light, and I could detect the most minute changes in color. I loved learning to operate the board under an upperclassman mentor and fell in love with mixing colors to match the emotional tempo of a scene.

My goal was to learn every department from the inside out, and lighting gave me a whole new set of tools.

LED & Lighting Concepts — Tech Idea Doc

Concepts from our techies’ inspiration board.

Opening: an old, ancient-looking palette — orange and yellow at 50%.
The Muses arrive: behind the fabric, lights rise dramatically with fading rainbow LED specials.
Urania’s speech: crossfade to blue/green with a white LED shimmer.
Sad tales like Echo: darker warm colors; 75% dark green specials in the forest.
Will and John’s house: dark yellow LEDs.
Pyramus and Thisbe: 75% white/blue, shifting to a purple-maroon hue after his death.
Sound idea (mine): a faint, recurring motif under the Muses’ first entrances, so the audience feels the thrill again when it returns.