Overheads
Four overhead projectors, one screen
With no budget for a film, can the picture be made by hand, live, in front of the orchestra?
Four overhead projectors converge on one 8-foot rear-projection screen. A camera takes the composite into a computer, and it is projected above the orchestra. Several hundred hand-cut and printed pieces — backgrounds, characters, props — and the performers’ own shadows make each picture.
A spreadsheet tracked the four overlapping channels: what had to be prepared, what was on stage, what was finished.
What it showedWith the spreadsheet, and rehearsals against recordings of the score, the company could perform the pictures in time with the symphony.
- Went on toRomeo and Juliet
- WithCo-created with Amelia Scott and the Precursor Lab company; the full credits are on the project page.
