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Seventh Day – OpenLab Performance 2017

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Today is the last day in the workshop, the coverage must be finalized and completed with the music.
Carlo and Davide write the songs for the performance while the girls of the concept group , along with the performer, try the third piece of the performance in the rehearsal room.
During the final shooting some problems occurred to the overhead projector. So we decided to use a handy cam.
Once we had done the filming we rearranged the room to film the final video in which there are all the participants in the project.
The workshop ended with a refreshment offered by the professor, where we got to take pictures together and celebrate this beautiful collaboration.

LIST OF THE EQUIPMENTS:

6 computers (Acer 2, 3 Macs, 1 Arqivia);
1 tablet;
1 console lights (Showmaster 24 MK II – Showtec);
8 spots (Club Par 12/6 RGBWAUV – Showtec);
1 overhead projector (JVC – Visual presentation AV-P700);
4 cameras (3 Nikon, Canon 1);
1 Go Pro (Canon – Legria Mini);
1 Hi-Fi system (NAD – C542 CD player, stereo preamplifier C162, C272 stereo amplifier);
5 projectors (2 Hitachi CPX400 and CPX260, 1 Epson EB-825, 1 Philips Hopper X620, 1 Acer P1283);
2 camera tripods;
1 video splitter (VGA Manhattan 4-port);
2 loudspeakers (Bose);
office supplies: glitter, tempera, card + straws, stones, soap.

Sixth Day OpenLab Performance 2017

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Today continue the experiments of the group concept with overhead projector, wax candles, stones and glitter in an oriental atmosphere, to carry out the last scene.
Richard F. uses After Effects to create the digital sea and landscapes in 8-bit graphic style.
The documentation team continues with the passport photo changes, while in the room filming David Noemi, Charles and John try to walk on the ground projection with blocks and the sea.
The work must be completed in the last set day meeting tomorrow where there will be the resumption of three scenes and a final video in which appear all the protagonists of the scene and behind the scenes.

Fifth Day OpenLab Performance 2017

Monday, May 22, 2017

Before today workshop the day there was a previous extra session on Friday, May 19. A group of students tried to create a scene where there was real time interaction between live performers and the screen. They decided to use the overhead projector, and its various filters to achieve color variations, intensity and light. They performed various tests with numerous objects in order to create the interaction: watercolors, tank brushes, glitter, water, a transparent glass plate, some decorative candle, cardboards.

Today, however, in the rehearsal room, Beatrice did some tests to film the first scene with Giovanni, fixing lights and frames. At the end of the day we had got the final version.
Riccardo F. worked on After Effects to compose the elements of video scenography made by Riccardo C. with Photoshop (Tetris style blocks, water, etc.); this will also be shown on the floor.
Then the professor exposed us a scheme in which we may divide the scenes of our project to have an internal coherence: a walk with the backdrop of some places of our city Turin, pantomime with the shadow and the interaction with the effects on the overhead projector.
The concept group continued to test on the overhead projector using various objects that will interact on the screen with the performer for the last scene.
Finally, the documentation group, in addition to making photos, video and text describing the project, took a picture for each of us, in order to obtain a collage of all the participants.

Forth Day OpenLab Performance 2017

Wednesday May 17, 2017

Today we started the workshop dividing into two groups. In the first group there were those from the concept team plus some performers; they and shoot some video footage in Turin. This footage will be part of video scenography. The second group stayed in the lab where Riccardo C. continued the graphic processing of the Tetris blocks, of the sky and of the clouds on Photoshop, while and documentation group has reorganized the folders on Drive. The rest of the students continued with the setting of some device for performance (particularly projectors). We have also started testing the overhead projector that we use for the third scene, using watercolors, the wax paper and tissue.
Riccardo F. composited and animated the assets created by Riccardo C. and finalized the composition by inserting the pre recorded shadow/silhouette. The final work was then screened and Giovanni rehearsed his part.

Third Day OpenLab Performance 2017

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

The day started with some experiments on filming runned by the audio-visual group. The group has tasted the image quality, the location, the lighting of the subject and the projection. It was very important to pay attention to proportions.
Riccardo C. using the graphics tablet and Photoshop has initially set the shortcut keys to facilitate the work and then has realized and textured Tetris blocks that will serve to create the video scenography.
David, however, has tried the lighting console with the help of Maurizio, adjusting the headlights and planning some preset scenes. In previous days, the lights were set at the four corners at the top of the scene, pointed towards the stage area and the beam has been isolated with the help of some cardboards.
The concept design team has been working behind the scenes creating the choreography for the shadow (virtual performer) and the real performer.
The scene has been shot from the audio-video group and Richard F. has reworked the image setting the grayscale and proportioning the silhouette with After Effects. The end result was tested by projecting directly onto the large front screen (rear projection).
After two other projectors in the rig that link at the bottom were set.
Throughout the day the documentation team did photos, videos, written reports and now also interviews with some guys.

Second Day OpenLabPerformance 2017

Monday, May 15, 2017

In the second day in the Workshop a group of students curated the stage setting and the installation of  equipment in the room where it will take place show. They mounted the curtains to darken the room, and tested filming and projections on the screens; finally they have set the lights and the isolation. The concept-design group has instead reworked the proposals on the staging of the show, totally changing the ideas of the first meeting. Indeed they have taken into  account the implementation problems, and the technical aspects, and the available equipment. The scheme provided by Professor Pizzo was very useful, and helped  to organize the structure of each scene. Below there is an example:

frontal screen 1ground screen 2ground screen 3LightsSoundMusica
1.Composition Video setting Tetris (white background)1.Black1.Blackcut on the performern8bit, Tetris Gamekeyboards or synth

In the final meeting we have discussed the various proposals, and it was confirmed a scene to be realized in the next day. The scene is based on the interaction between the real and virtual actor which in our case represents the shadow of the actor on stage.
Throughout the day, the documentation had been in charge to take photographs, video and text documentation.


(Report edited by Erika Iannolo)

First Day OpenLabPerformance 2017

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

We started the workshop (within the Dramaturgy of the Performance course). After the initial explanation of the available equipment (such as 4 projectors, a Go Pro, 8 lights, a light board etc.) we started to set different groups.

This diary is held by the group that documents the entire project with photos, videos and short notes

In short, other groups will be set for audio-video, performance, concept and design, graphic design, scenography and technique.

The whole team immediately decided a general theme for the entire lab: walks and hugs. The total action should not exceed ten minutes at most.

A part of the team began to devise scenarios and proposed to divide the performance into three scenes:

  1. disorientation;
  2. loneliness / panic;
  3. final solution.

The rest of the group, along with the teacher, tried different types of shooting with the two performers and use the light plant to see what effects could be effective.

Here’s a short video of what we did.

Ninth day OpenLabPerformance 2018

30 May 2018

Today was the last day of workshop which ended with the dismantling of the set-up. We shot a video with the theme “Mannequin Challenge”, where each of us was filmed during while completing a specific task but in a state of “freezing”. After having cleaned up, Professor Pizzo and Maurizio kindly offered us a lunch to celebrate, and then we toasted to the success of the project. To conclude, all the videos made and post-produced were seen, and the archive team together with some of the remaining students finished the work.

Eighth day OpenLabPerformance 2018

29 May 2018

The production of all performances ended with the “love against institutions” one, which  previously was born like “conflict between two entities”. The action takes place on the digital level with one performer, and on the real one with two. Two girls interact with each other with a series of gestures, letting the audience guessing the affection and the love tension between them, while they try to get closer to each other, the virtual performer, dressed as the Pope, who represents institutions in general, splits them up. After that, the girls stomping on the ground make the Pope shrinks and the performance ends with the performers hugging each other representing their victory. The Pope costume has been sewed accurately and painted with a gold marker; the equipments for the costume were a bed sheet and a white cardboard. The music has been edited with ProTools in order to create the right rhythm for the performance. The shooting and the rehearsals were completed in about two and a half hours and only the final editing is missing. The day ended with the last video interview.

 

Seventh day OpenLabPerformance 2018

28 May 2018

The shooting of the performances continues, and today the first group to work was the one that stages the conflict with nature. This performance required the use of the software Isadora so that the real-time interaction could be possible, and for this reason Vanessa Vozzo came back to help us. The rehearsals took place today before the final shooting, as all the necessary stuff were put together during these days. In fact, preoviously the group created  videos of the natural setting, also using the overhead projector, and in post-production the techniques of stop-motion and time-lapse; the music was composed adding natural sounds to the melody. For the performance were used two projectors that projected the same pictures on the screen and on the white carpet, but in different ways. The action is given by the two performers who perform on the carpet in front of a detector (the kinect) which recognises their position and plays the video; being the main theme of the performance the conflict with nature, whenever they step in the natural environment (the four elements) it gets contaminated. After hours of rehearsals and shootings the group got interviewed.

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