Tables
Camera tables: pictures performed like foley
Can pictures be performed the way a foley artist performs sound?
In the workshops for Ghost River Theatre’s Struck, at the West Village Theatre in Calgary: tables of objects and materials, each watched by small SDI cameras on 3D-printed holders fixed to microphone arms, so that a picture can be built by hand during a scene and cut to.
From the first workshop also came projection used to shape the room: four projectors, from different angles, carving the space with simple line drawings — an airplane cabin drawn in light around two seated actors.
What it showedThe four camera inputs of The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst were not enough: the stage was rearranged constantly, and montage needed more pictures at once. The production went from four inputs to nine.
- Went on toStruck
