A few weekends ago I went up to my home town of Santa Barbara for a day to visit the folks. We ended up going for a walk on the beach and I thought the ambient light of the cloudy day looked rather interesting. The light was very cool and I thought that it would be a great light to use for setting a somewhat melancholy atmosphere. The general lack of hue in the light, along with a touch of coolness communicates to me sadness and depression. I would like to use light like this for atmosphere in play where the general attitude is that of depression or defeat. Maybe something like Death of A Salesman. This is what we think of when we say the weather is "gray," but really it's a shade of blue.
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