Projection on textural backdrop that also acts as scrim to reveal dancer on cue
Posted on November 2nd, 2012
So we incorporated dance this past weekend. Some backstory on the #productiondesign that I didn’t share with anybody until after we saw it work: A few weeks back, I had a dream where the setting had me on a stage. A subplot of the dream involved me consulting a redesign of the scenic and lighting. I literally designed the light plot in my sleep. In the dream I positioned stage decks upstage of a sheer fabric so a dancer could be seen in a veiled manner behind a band playing live on the apron. Crazy, but this honestly happened as a subplot of my dream! When our producer shared the vision for the YRLK song I knew I had already designed the look…and I didn’t dare share my inspiration until we saw it live!
Ingredients:
The band was an eclectic mix of guitars, kick drum, a violin, and a couple low horns that I arrayed in a semicircle on a rug DSC
I used strips of Silver Batiste from RoseBrand to create a 40’ wide "seamless backdrop" that we lit with LEDs and Gobos
Upstage of the fabric we built stage decks for the dancer that we lit with toplight gobo and some shinbusters for the reveal