this week has been the last week of our unit. Claire has returned and viewed the videos that we made, she has then asked us to expand upon them. the group i worked in had made one film http://youtu.be/Sb7M0MZNCH0
Claire wanted to see a live element to this piece and more group involvment. so we went home and created two more videos.
http://youtu.be/aeV0UktX4Fw
http://youtu.be/B2nk8Ss_bXk
as a group we decided that the performance would take the form of a film showing with the 'director' Warren Sarross. and that the artists he had made documentaries abouthad all agreed to turn up and give a live performance in support of him. hopefully i will be able to post the video later for your viewing pleasure...
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Transmedia Week: Friday
friday was here and we were ready for the performance. so far i may have seemed a little cryptic in my explaination of the show. the reason for this is that i would like to walk you through it as i go to hopefully simplify it; as it sounds a little complex when explained (but really it isnt).
firstly we explain to audience members that they need to download SCVNGR http://www.scvngr.com/ and a QR code reader for their smart phone.
once they have these they need to 'check in' to Northbrook college on SCVNGR which is a marked location.
once checked in there is the option to see what is going on at this location, it turns out that there is a challange to complete. the challange here is to get a picture of you hugging a hoodie and upload it.
after you have uploaded you picture a message turns up telling you to ask one of the hoodies for a map. which you do.
you now follow the map to the marked out locations each marked location has an art installation created by the groups (the installation will have relevance to thier video)
somewhere on this installation will be the QR for their video. from this point you scan the code and watch the group's video then move on to the next group.
see simple :-/
firstly we explain to audience members that they need to download SCVNGR http://www.scvngr.com/ and a QR code reader for their smart phone.
once they have these they need to 'check in' to Northbrook college on SCVNGR which is a marked location.
once checked in there is the option to see what is going on at this location, it turns out that there is a challange to complete. the challange here is to get a picture of you hugging a hoodie and upload it.
after you have uploaded you picture a message turns up telling you to ask one of the hoodies for a map. which you do.
you now follow the map to the marked out locations each marked location has an art installation created by the groups (the installation will have relevance to thier video)
somewhere on this installation will be the QR for their video. from this point you scan the code and watch the group's video then move on to the next group.
see simple :-/
Transmedia week: wednesday and thursday
when we continued our work we split into groups and using the previously formulated hashtag (#lostgen) we came up with ideas of videos from the ideas that had been tweeted in. our group had a few ideas of what we could do for our videos. so we discussed what would be the most effective to get our message across. we then began filming. on thursday we finished editing the films and made the posters for our show containing QR codes for our videos which had been uploaded to youtube.
above is our QR code. if you scan a QR code into a smart phone it will take you to a wedsite/video etc... this code takes you to our video on youtube. http://youtu.be/kzygivV_RMo so now we were more or less ready. we had our videos, our artwork and our QR codes. Below is the artwork
Transmedia week: monday
last week we had the opportunity to work with Mark Ashmore of Future Artists http://www.futureartists.co.uk/ he works primarily in the field of transmedia. which essentially is telling a story over a range of different platforms (eg twitter, facebook, film, live performance etc...) the idea has been about for a while but the term for it has only really appeared in the last few years.
Mark showed us some of the work from one of the pioneers of transmedia story telling; Lance Weiler http://lanceweiler.com/ he incorperated twitter and location based programmes with live and pre-recorded performance.
after we had a discussion about what we understood of transmedia we started looking into working a short show we would be performing on the friday. The subect we would be looking into was to be 'Lost Generation: setting the record straight.' Mark set up a hashtag on twitter #lostgen and during the original discussion we used the hashtag to tweet in some of the ideas that were emerging. with these ideas we would start to formulate how our shows were going to pan out.
Mark showed us some of the work from one of the pioneers of transmedia story telling; Lance Weiler http://lanceweiler.com/ he incorperated twitter and location based programmes with live and pre-recorded performance.
after we had a discussion about what we understood of transmedia we started looking into working a short show we would be performing on the friday. The subect we would be looking into was to be 'Lost Generation: setting the record straight.' Mark set up a hashtag on twitter #lostgen and during the original discussion we used the hashtag to tweet in some of the ideas that were emerging. with these ideas we would start to formulate how our shows were going to pan out.
Monday, 17 October 2011
business minded
after working with Claire we had a session with Lisa Holloway http://uk.linkedin.com/in/lisaholloway the point of this lesson was to explain to us the usefulness of networking and increase the prominance of our product, us. we worked on what we would need to include on our CV's and how best to make them relevant to not only us, but to this day and age. this workshop was most useful as i had no idea at the time what to include in my cv, or how and where to promote myself. once i have finished my CV i will be posting it here...
more further research - cyber theatre
i have found another company that looks particularly interesting they are called 'the studio for electrionic theatre' and have created the notion of 'cyber theatre' http://www.setlab.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=10 which looks to be very interesting. the basics of this digital performance are that when the performer moves, their movements control the audio/visual sceneograpy, giving the illusion of human and machine working in harmoy.
further research
after these workshops i carried out some more research into theatre companies that use video in theire shows in interesting ways. the following is what i discovered.
Il Pixel Rosso - a brighton based theatre company comprised of a film director and a performer their latest show 'and the birds fell from the sky' used video goggles to create a unique immersive performance. http://totaltheatrereview.com/reviews/and-birds-fell-sky
Blast theory - another local immersive theatre company have been creating work for well over a decade now. one of their performaces last year included video elements but also the use of mobile phones. 'A Machine to see with,' http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_amachinetoseewith.html
Il Pixel Rosso - a brighton based theatre company comprised of a film director and a performer their latest show 'and the birds fell from the sky' used video goggles to create a unique immersive performance. http://totaltheatrereview.com/reviews/and-birds-fell-sky
Blast theory - another local immersive theatre company have been creating work for well over a decade now. one of their performaces last year included video elements but also the use of mobile phones. 'A Machine to see with,' http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_amachinetoseewith.html
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Claire and Periplum
during the first few workshops we have worked with Claire Raftery of Periplum theatre company.
http://www.periplum.co.uk/
the company is based in brighton and performs a range of site specific productions all over the world. Claire Worked with us from the point of view of a director showing us what directors may be looking for when workshopping actors. she also explained to us about how Periplum was using technology with their perfomances and what ways we could do this. one of the activites we carried out was in pairs recording a very short ( under a minute) film and then portraying something that may give the audience more understanding, contrast or baffle in exactly the same space. then give our audience the films on mobile devices and watch the filmed and live perfomance at the same time. i found this activity particularly interesting because i like working with film and found it to be an interesting method of adding another level to the story. when we had finished working with claire in the first few weeks she left us a challange of making a film for her upon her return. one of the other performers and i have created the following film.
http://youtu.be/Sb7M0MZNCH0
i hope claire enjoys it upon her return.
http://www.periplum.co.uk/
the company is based in brighton and performs a range of site specific productions all over the world. Claire Worked with us from the point of view of a director showing us what directors may be looking for when workshopping actors. she also explained to us about how Periplum was using technology with their perfomances and what ways we could do this. one of the activites we carried out was in pairs recording a very short ( under a minute) film and then portraying something that may give the audience more understanding, contrast or baffle in exactly the same space. then give our audience the films on mobile devices and watch the filmed and live perfomance at the same time. i found this activity particularly interesting because i like working with film and found it to be an interesting method of adding another level to the story. when we had finished working with claire in the first few weeks she left us a challange of making a film for her upon her return. one of the other performers and i have created the following film.
http://youtu.be/Sb7M0MZNCH0
i hope claire enjoys it upon her return.
introduction to unit 6
well im using my already existing blog as a working platform for my acting 'career' and more importantly an assessment point for my unit 6, which is based on professional working. a unit has been tilted towards using technology, using technology not only in performances but also giving some form of professional place to sell our product to the public/industry ie. PAUL SAUNDERS - ACTOR!!!
the unit will consist of our group working with professionals in a workshop format to learn as much as we can about the skills we will need to survive in the industry. we will then create an online page showing the work we have done. sort of like a logbook/workbook but using digital media instead of pens and paper. (save the penguins and all that :) )
the unit will consist of our group working with professionals in a workshop format to learn as much as we can about the skills we will need to survive in the industry. we will then create an online page showing the work we have done. sort of like a logbook/workbook but using digital media instead of pens and paper. (save the penguins and all that :) )
heeeerrrreeeee'sssss pauly...
so its been a long time. (about 4 months if im right in thinking.) in the time i have been back at home from our universtiy break and spent my whole summer, bar a few glorious days, working. so the blog took a bit of a backseat. well im back now and already a month into university. the work has been piling up and ive been stupid enought to let it. WELL NO MORE said the man optimistically. not sure if ill be able to keep it up but here goes., this will be a day of blogging the last months activities (each sort of section will be a different post in an attempt for clarity.) so lets begin.
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