Radiating light effect

A wide shot where rays leave one stone and stripe the cracked ground for a long way out. a wide shot of a single upright stone on a cracked dry lakebed at dusk, straight beams reaching outward from the stone low across the ground in every direction, each beam lighting a long bright stripe of cracked mud that runs away to the horizon while the ground between the stripes stays in shadow, dust drifting through the beams, the sky above unchanged and dim, locked wide camera

A widening ring of light leaves an open book and crosses a long room of empty desks. a wide shot of a long reading room of empty wooden desks with one open book on the nearest desk, a soft ring of light lifting off the pages and widening outward across the room, the ring lighting each desk, chair and shelf brightly as it passes and leaving them dim again behind it, dust turning inside the ring, the far wall reached last, camera static at desk height

A pod brightens and dims in a slow rhythm, its rays pushing out and drawing back each time. a closed glass greenhouse at night with one pale seed pod hanging from a stem in the middle of the frame, the pod brightening and dimming in a slow steady rhythm, short rays pushing outward through the leaves on every rise and drawing back on every fall, the wet leaves nearest the pod flaring white at each peak while the far end of the greenhouse stays dark, condensation on the glass catching each pulse, slow push in

Rays lengthen out of a dancer as her arms extend and shorten as she closes. a dancer alone in a bare rehearsal room, arms drawn in close, faint short rays sitting tight against her body, the rays lengthening outward across the floor and the mirrors as she opens her arms wide and shortening back in as she folds them, the light always travelling out from her and never from the room, the floorboards under each ray brightening in turn, camera tracking slowly around her

Hard rays spread outward from a sphere in cupped hands and stripe the bench behind it. a figure in a dim cluttered workshop holding a small matte sphere in cupped hands, hard straight beams of light begin to fan outward from the sphere in every direction, each beam laying a bright band across the bench, the tools and the back wall while the shadows between them stay black, the beams lengthening and widening as the sphere brightens, the hands and face lit only by the light leaving the sphere, camera holding still

Beams from a standing figure sweep sideways along tiled walls as the figure turns. a figure standing in the middle of an empty tiled underpass, long straight beams reaching outward from their chest and shoulders, the figure turning slowly on the spot so the beams rake sideways along the tiled walls and the wet floor, each band of tile lighting up as a beam crosses it and dropping back to dark behind it, the figure themselves in silhouette against their own light, camera low and static

Light leaves the surface of an indoor pool in beams that sweep up the surrounding walls. a wide shot of a disused indoor swimming pool with flat still water, beams of light rising outward from one point on the surface and sweeping up and across the tiled walls and the high ceiling, each beam leaving a bright moving band on the tiles and a mirrored band on the water, ripples spreading from the same point and bending the beams as they cross, the far end of the hall dark, camera locked wide

A ring of light expands outward from a palm and passes over the stairwell walls. a figure standing in a bare concrete stairwell with one palm open at chest height, a thin ring of light forms just above the palm and expands steadily outward as a widening circle, the ring passing over the steps, the handrail and the walls and lighting each surface brightly for the moment it crosses it, the rest of the stairwell staying unlit, the figure watching the ring travel, locked camera

Beams from a silhouetted figure carve visible shafts through fog between pine trunks. a wide shot of a figure standing among widely spaced pine trunks in thick fog, hard beams reaching outward from the figure and carving clearly defined shafts through the fog, each shaft stopping where a trunk blocks it and throwing a long dark gap behind that trunk, the figure a silhouette at the centre of its own light, fog swirling where the beams pass, camera slow dolly in

Rays from a small lantern spread through falling rain, each beam picking out the drops. a small metal lantern set down on a wet rooftop in heavy rain, hard beams spreading outward from it in a flat fan just above the surface, every beam picking out the falling drops as bright streaks where it passes and leaving the rain invisible everywhere else, puddles throwing a second set of beams back upward, the parapet behind staying black, camera at the height of the lantern, slow drift right