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One thing we had to take into account with our performance was the restrictions of COVID-19 and social distancing. Therefore, we knew we would only be able to have a limited audience and we had to prepare for a situation in which we had no audience at all. We made sure that if we weren't going to be able to do our performance in front of an audience that it would be easy to pre-record. If we had needed to, we could have had a stationary camera at the front and done the performance as normal , and then streamed it live to a virtual audience. Luckily, our group was part of a social bubble, and therefore didn't have to adhere to the same distances as other groups. COVID also restricted our time to use the space, as all groups couldn't be in the space at once, and with limited tech it meant our piece didn't have the best tech it could have had.

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Written by me.

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Written by Lauren.

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After fully developing our plot we decided to write out our script in full in order to make things easier and clearer for our tech to mark out all cues.

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=hbTtaVl4usE&feature=share

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=3wJ3Te7a7MM&feature=share

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Below is a picture of the stage layout we decided on. After trying a few different formations of boxes, we settled in this closed in pyramid layout. We believed this to be the most effective way to tell our story, giving us the opportunity to use the boxes as projection surfaces, as well as giving the whole piece a closed in feeling, to make our main character feel enclosed and isolated.  It frames the piece nicely and gives the whole show a specific mood and feeling.

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=wdghFbK5U48&feature=share

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Pictured below is our first test for the scene when the paparazzi are harassing Bex. We pre-recorded thew videos and faced all the footage inwards.

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Once we had our general theme and circular plot, we began to brainstorm how we'd incorporate projections into it. We decided to use a combination of projections which reflected the setting in which our scene takes place, as well as some which reflected a mood more than a location. For example, we liked the idea of using the formation of boxes to create a police car, with a number plate on the front box and sirens on the sides. Yet we also liked the idea of putting our negative tweets on every box and trapping our character within these negative comments.

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In one of our first sessions, we began with learning how to interact with projected footage, whether that be live or pre-recorded. In order to create an illusion of a real person in regards to pre-recorded footage, it is essential that you know what you have pre-recorded well, so you know the placement you need when it comes too moving outside of the projection screen - giving your character legs, arm, etc, that stretch off-screen. With live footage, we set up a camera and streamed it to our projection screen and were able to create a scene from there, with a character acting on screen and a character interacting with the digital person.

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In this session, we learnt the basics of programming and projecting images onto specific objects - in this instance, it was different sized boxes. We used images inspired by the themes of Rebecca and used QLab to project them onto the boxes as shown in images 1, 2 and 3.