Project 6- Luminescence pt. 2

After our research, I came up with my idea after severals days of brainstorming. I decided I was going to create both the sunrise and sunset since I couldn't pick between the two. I was going to use yellow, red and blue acetate or lighting gel for the colors of the sun; the light bulb; a box. This was my first try at my luminaire:

After I had my idea I just needed to refine the making of it. So I used matte board to create a box a little smaller than the shoebox I used for my 'model.' My next issue was how I was going to be able to rotate it since that was the effect I wanted. It took several ideas but I came up with using skewers from my Unity project as my third material and cross them to create handles from which I could manually spin/turn the acetate. I had some issues with the length of the skewers because they kept getting caught on the table. The last issue I had was because the light on the side was too heavy and everytime it was rotated it would either fall out or cave in. As a result I used 4 skewers to keep the light bulb side steady by having two of them outside of the box and then having two on the inside to hold the bulb in place.

Below are pictures of the effect my illuminaire causes:

Below is my 'documentation' of it. For our documentation we had to do a composite drawing on an 18"x24" piece of Canson paper (mine was black). We had to have a plan, an elevation, a section and an expressive rendition of the field of light. My plan, elevation and section are the drawings on the top part done in yellow colored pencil. My rendition is the rest of the drawing (the yellow, red and blue mix) which is my interpretation of my light effect and the colors the sun casts when it rises and sets.

The last thing included is a video I took of my luminaire. I didn't think the pictures did it full justice. The effect is just not the same so I included a video so that it can be experienced the way it was meant to.