Cycle 1/2 (Sean)
Posted: April 7, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »My first couple of cycles got mashed up a bit. I was working with the set deadline of tech rehearsal and performance of my solo thesis show, Mr. Shirley at the End of the World. In ordinary times, this would be presented live but due to the pandemic, I had to film the production for virtual presentation. The primary reason I enrolled in this class was to work with Isadora to program the sound and media in my show. Here are some images below.
Basically what I was trying to do was create a user friendly interface for the person running the media/sound for my show to just hit assigned buttons and make things happen on cue. I tried my best to automate as many transitions as I could to cut down on them having to think too hard about what do. For instance, to begin the show they just hit the space bar and the next could scenes cycled through automatically. A visual cue was noted in the program to let the Isadora operator know when to transition to the next scene by hitting the “Media Out” button I created.
I made some fairly significant use of the envelope generators in this to control the fading of music and media images. I also created a User Actor that would act as a neutral background and repeat several times throughout the performance. I also utilized a router on several scenes so that I could use the same button to initiate separate MP3 files.
The next two slides are from the end of the show. After the last cue I’m able to let the rest of the show play out without having to manually hit any buttons.
