Tools Used
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Unity
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QLab
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Premiere Pro
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Photoshop
Scope
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Unity Camera Rig Design using LiDAR
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Feasibility Testing and Projection Alignment
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Visual Effects Design for 6 Projectors Outputs
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Coordination with Lighting and Audio Teams
Project Overview
Project Brief
Produce an projection designs for each scenic transitions in Professor Kathryn Williams' class for documentary theater writing. Professor Tao Wang tasked projection, lighting and sound design students to collaborate and apply the design to the student-crafted storyline.
Collaborators:
Will Bosley, Technical Director
Tao Wang, Professor
Projection Designers: Luna Hayes and Daisy Liao
Lighting Designers: Andrew Bartlett, Ayla Rodriguez, Santiago Patino, Gilberto Cardozo Dominguez
Concept Summary
The "Elevator to Success" was structured into two projection categories: camera rig design and visual effects. Finding inspiration from The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, audiences felt immersed in a 180° spectacle that situates them into an elevator that transports them to each scene that discusses the theme of success.
Technical Considerations
This 4-week long project required careful timing of each stage.
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Project rendered game engine graphics at human scale to 6 projectors
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Connect lighting, projections and audio through OSC
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Incorporate a pipeline that allows for easy refinements
Unity Camera Rig
I built a human-scaled camera rig inside the Unity game engine while working as the Assistant Technical Director at Swain Hall's Black Box Theatre. LiDAR scanning provided accurate measurements of the theater space to load into Unity.
Storyboard
Creative Design Thinking
Formulating a visual aesthetic was key for aligning our story to the overall story. The team found reference images that looked at utopian, rustic elevators, and city development.
Storyboard
Story outline for the scenic transition.
Story outline for the scenic transition.
Story outline for the scenic transition.
Story outline for the scenic transition.
Production Process Photos
Technical Report
Table showing cues connecting projection, audio and lighting elements.
Framework for all lighting, projection and audio systems and how they link.
Table showing cues connecting projection, audio and lighting elements.
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