Last week (26th - 30th November) I set myself the task of finishing the projections for out Artaud piece and was successful!
In terms of last week not much happened until the Friday lesson which was key in terms as a point forward for the piece.
After creating the projections for each individual section of the script on Wednesday I was eager to show it to the rest of the class. The entire process of creating around 8 different projections took me the most part of the half a day I had free. I first started by testing out varying fonts for the projections until I found a crisp, clear font that looked neat and tidy. Not only did it stand out but it also it created a very particular effect (the font is called Impact). The process of creating the projection was done in the program Adobe After Effects and the process looked something like this (for each of the 8).
As you can see it looks quite complicated and for those who don't know what they are doing. It kind of is. The main idea behind the projections was to create something known as 'Kinetic Typography' something where text is animated in time with words. Even with it being complicated the end product is worth the wait as it delivers a crisp and powerful effect especially for our piece as seen below.
Whilst creating this set of projections I was aiming to choose key words that appeared like labels being given to a person. This allowed a further power to the words coming up on screen and as we have set our piece in a hospital keeping the black and white and clear nature of the text makes it look more clinical and less personal to the person in question. This is what the main discussion behind Friday's lesson was about. How it fitted with our performance concept.
The main idea that arose was that of invasion of personal information and details. As some of the labels put upon this woman are extremely personal but appear on screen in a cold and calculated manner just as they do in a doctors note book on their patients. This was the main idea behind many of the projections. The final product of one of these projections can be seen below.
Thats it for this week guys! :D
Richard #1
