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Arden Thomas
Sequoyah High School
Pasadena CA
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Sounds great.    Can we watch it at night or you have to watch it live only?
I live about 30 miles south of bard.    Leon

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Leon Kaye
Playwright for the Ages
Lhk@koa1.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-25-2020 00:19
From: Arden Thomas
Subject: Bard College's Mad Forest: WATCH IT!!

I hope you can watch the Bard Theater production of Mad Forest -- the last show is this Wednesday May 27 at 3pm est. MIND BLOWN. The technology is incredible -- they literally re-wrote Zoom code to be able to do it! You will not believe your eyes. So beautiful, gorgeous video, set, and sound design, such powerful acting all done remotely over Zoom. LIVE. No glitches! Unbelievable. You have to register and they will send you the link and pw.

https://www.tfana.org/current-season/digital-programming/madforest

Director Ashley Tata enlisted Eamonn Farrell, a director and designer, who, in the role of Video Designer, collapsed the formal and geographic borders of performance using Zoom.

Andy Carluccio-a designer, engineer, technologist, and student of Farrell's-wrote customized Zoom code as the production's video programmer, creating a modified version of the software to enhance its visual and storytelling abilities and allow for camera editing in real time.

Designer Afsoon Pajoufar scrapped the original design for the stage and created around 125 individually designed virtual backgrounds against which students would green screen themselves. The green screens, lighting equipment, Bluetooth earbuds, props and costume pieces, and hardwired internet connections, when needed, were sent to student actors in their remote locations.

Tata writes, "We found the material breathed differently in this space… State-run, regularly televised addresses are the medium of choice for dictators, as it was for the Ceaușescus. Churchill's play references the days when the television station was occupied by revolutionaries. They opened the doors so citizens-victims of the regime-could testify and bear witness to how governmental policies had affected them for decades… Transitioning to this format and incorporating it as a design and meta-theatrical element seems almost obvious."

 

Mad Forest's video designer, Eamonn Farrell, answers questions about the technology that's used to give the show its distinct confessional style of performance.Mad Forest - Interview with Eamonn Farrell

Mad Forest's sound designer, Paul Pinto, answers questions about the inspirations and process he used to give the show its surreal voice.

Mad Forest - Interview with Paul Pinto

Mad Forest's set designer, Abigail Hoke-Brady, answers questions about the power of putting the set design into the actors' hands as they perform in separate spaces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlfCWzrgZe8

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Arden Thomas
Sequoyah High School
Pasadena CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 5/25/2020 12:19:00 AM
From: Arden Thomas
Subject: Bard College's Mad Forest: WATCH IT!!

I hope you can watch the Bard Theater production of Mad Forest -- the last show is this Wednesday May 27 at 3pm est. MIND BLOWN. The technology is incredible -- they literally re-wrote Zoom code to be able to do it! You will not believe your eyes. So beautiful, gorgeous video, set, and sound design, such powerful acting all done remotely over Zoom. LIVE. No glitches! Unbelievable. You have to register and they will send you the link and pw.

https://www.tfana.org/current-season/digital-programming/madforest

Director Ashley Tata enlisted Eamonn Farrell, a director and designer, who, in the role of Video Designer, collapsed the formal and geographic borders of performance using Zoom. 

Andy Carluccio-a designer, engineer, technologist, and student of Farrell's-wrote customized Zoom code as the production's video programmer, creating a modified version of the software to enhance its visual and storytelling abilities and allow for camera editing in real time.

Designer Afsoon Pajoufar scrapped the original design for the stage and created around 125 individually designed virtual backgrounds against which students would green screen themselves. The green screens, lighting equipment, Bluetooth earbuds, props and costume pieces, and hardwired internet connections, when needed, were sent to student actors in their remote locations.

Tata writes, "We found the material breathed differently in this space… State-run, regularly televised addresses are the medium of choice for dictators, as it was for the Ceaușescus. Churchill's play references the days when the television station was occupied by revolutionaries. They opened the doors so citizens-victims of the regime-could testify and bear witness to how governmental policies had affected them for decades… Transitioning to this format and incorporating it as a design and meta-theatrical element seems almost obvious."

 

Mad Forest's video designer, Eamonn Farrell, answers questions about the technology that's used to give the show its distinct confessional style of performance.Mad Forest - Interview with Eamonn Farrell

Mad Forest's sound designer, Paul Pinto, answers questions about the inspirations and process he used to give the show its surreal voice.

Mad Forest - Interview with Paul Pinto

Mad Forest's set designer, Abigail Hoke-Brady, answers questions about the power of putting the set design into the actors' hands as they perform in separate spaces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlfCWzrgZe8

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Arden Thomas
Sequoyah High School
Pasadena CA
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Another opportunity to learn about virtual performances is coming up this weekend!  Mark your calendars for 

May 30, 2:00 p.m. Eastern to catch  Tips for Directing and Capturing Online Performances -  You will get to hear from a lighting designer who has done a total pivot to virtual design and learn how he and director Jay Lee created a virtual production of The Importance of Being Earnest in which the actors appear to be interacting within a virtual set.   They will share tips for coaching your actors for a livestreamed performance using familiar tools such as Zoom.  

Offered free to the public on  EdTA FACEBOOK page.  EdTA members may register to participate in the Zoom and Q & A  through Theatre Educator Pro as a benefit of membership.

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Cory Wilkerson
Education Manager
Educational Theatre Association
Palmyra PA
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-25-2020 00:19
From: Arden Thomas
Subject: Bard College's Mad Forest: WATCH IT!!

I hope you can watch the Bard Theater production of Mad Forest -- the last show is this Wednesday May 27 at 3pm est. MIND BLOWN. The technology is incredible -- they literally re-wrote Zoom code to be able to do it! You will not believe your eyes. So beautiful, gorgeous video, set, and sound design, such powerful acting all done remotely over Zoom. LIVE. No glitches! Unbelievable. You have to register and they will send you the link and pw.

https://www.tfana.org/current-season/digital-programming/madforest

Director Ashley Tata enlisted Eamonn Farrell, a director and designer, who, in the role of Video Designer, collapsed the formal and geographic borders of performance using Zoom.

Andy Carluccio-a designer, engineer, technologist, and student of Farrell's-wrote customized Zoom code as the production's video programmer, creating a modified version of the software to enhance its visual and storytelling abilities and allow for camera editing in real time.

Designer Afsoon Pajoufar scrapped the original design for the stage and created around 125 individually designed virtual backgrounds against which students would green screen themselves. The green screens, lighting equipment, Bluetooth earbuds, props and costume pieces, and hardwired internet connections, when needed, were sent to student actors in their remote locations.

Tata writes, "We found the material breathed differently in this space… State-run, regularly televised addresses are the medium of choice for dictators, as it was for the Ceaușescus. Churchill's play references the days when the television station was occupied by revolutionaries. They opened the doors so citizens-victims of the regime-could testify and bear witness to how governmental policies had affected them for decades… Transitioning to this format and incorporating it as a design and meta-theatrical element seems almost obvious."

 

Mad Forest's video designer, Eamonn Farrell, answers questions about the technology that's used to give the show its distinct confessional style of performance.Mad Forest - Interview with Eamonn Farrell

Mad Forest's sound designer, Paul Pinto, answers questions about the inspirations and process he used to give the show its surreal voice.

Mad Forest - Interview with Paul Pinto

Mad Forest's set designer, Abigail Hoke-Brady, answers questions about the power of putting the set design into the actors' hands as they perform in separate spaces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlfCWzrgZe8

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Arden Thomas
Sequoyah High School
Pasadena CA
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