2)      Watched a clip from The Magic Flute by 1927 at Edinburgh Festival (2015).

3)      We then used our laptops and phones to experience WebXR a virtual space, discussing our level of immersion.

4)      Paper exercise.

5)      Short experience with the VR Headsets.

6)      We then created a short performance in small groups about our experiences, our group focused on how we found it relaxing and at times slightly bewildering. Personally I was particularly interested in how the ‘immersant’ could interact with their surroundings to alter their experience. We began to explore this aurally by playing different sounds on our mobiles and allowing the ‘immersant’ to move around in the space altering their experience.

-          Projections of endangered birds flying across the building, starting with thousands and slowly is diminishes to a fraction of the number, leading into the animation of the crack forming.

I really enjoyed visiting Leeds Centre for Aerial Arts and I was struck with how my experiences outside of theatre influenced my aerial ability. An example of this is that my yoga practice improved my core strength and flexibility which meant I could attempt more moves whilst on the silks. This has shifted how I view my practice as performer and made me more aware of how it is interdisciplinary. In the future I will attempt not to neglect these other skills and hobbies as they can directly support my professional development.

In this session we used Gravity Sketch VR to create sculptures and proposed potential performances. This was an important session in the development of our piece as most of the groups quickly ran out of time while devising their performances. When reflecting on this workshop it made us all aware of how much time it takes to create a VR experience and informed our final assessment.

From using Katie’s provocations we decided to look at using projection to show the 360 footage and how this can be used to create an immersive experience without the headset. This idea also allows us to further incorporate sound and lighting that might’ve been overlook if we used the VR headset. Overall this was a key turning point in the process and although we found it challenging it was exciting working out we could develop the performance. The biggest challenge I found was matching these expectations with the time frame of one week.

There were multiple difficult technical aspects, particularly ensuring the videos were playing on the correct projector screens. Due to this taking longer than expected I ran out of time mapping the videos onto each screen so they didn’t full fill the screens.