Projection Design Experience

I am a high school TV Productions and Drama teacher and I am also working on my doctorate of computer science in emerging media with a concentration in theater technology. I chose this concentration because it only makes sense with what I do. Now I am trying to work on research and a dissertation topic.

I have become fascinated with projection designs while researching the tech theater world. I did not know much about it until recently when I decided to make my theater and studio my laboratory.

Our current show(going up tomorrow!), Scrooge, will be our first try at projection design. I researched a bit and experimented ALOT. We moved every light and have three projectors and screens to work with. Our show has 30 lighting cues and effect and 16 projections. Not bad for a first try...well...I will know how good or bad tomorrow! I am very nervous, I have 5 on tech crew and 60 in the cast...and it's just ME. It has been quite a challenge.

I would like to learn more about projection design and the best ways to use it. I would also like to meet other designers and find out if other teachers are using this technology in the high school setting.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks

Susan

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Tags: design, projection, teaching, technical, technology, theater

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Comment by Susan Cardillo on December 15, 2012 at 6:50am

Thanks Jacob...

Our show last night went GREAT...all projections worked on cue and the audience loved it.

I would also like to put this out there:

For dissertation I have to add to the body of knowledge for technology in theater for high schools ...but I am not finding much(if any) scholarly knowledge in this area.

In the opinion of this community, what would be a good direction for this? What needs to be done in this area that requires more research?

Is this technology being used regularly by any other high schools? and if so, what can we do to improve it?

I have some thoughts but would love to connect with other teachers that i could share them with......

Comment by Jacob Coakley on December 14, 2012 at 10:07am

Thanks for the blog, Susan! Let me go research some online articles about this, I'll be back in a bit with some links. I'll also see if I can't get some other members of our community to chime in!

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