Whole Brain Post

Alina Sunoo

Whole-Brain Post

This past semester, I have been in a Lighting and Sound class. A few weeks ago for my class, we each were told to create a light plot for the production, “Assassins.” This musical follows different individuals who have tried (and sometimes succeeded) to kill a United States president. I mostly used my left-brain for this assignment. This is because I thought the light plot was supposed to just be a technical, not creative thing. However, now that I think of it, of course I could have used my right brain as well. After listening to the presentations from others in my class, I realized that there was more than one way of lighting a stage. For example, I could have experimented more with the colors of light and the positions of the lighting instruments. In addition to colors and positions of light, I also could have utilized my right brain by being creative with the different kinds of lighting instruments to use. Now I am convinced Pink’s A Whole New Mind was definitely correct in stating that left-brained thinking is not sufficient. Though of course left-brained thinking is essential, it simply cannot function as efficiently as it does when combined with right-brained thinking as well.