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So, I may have mentioned that I'm working on this show called c.1993 (you never step in the same river twice).
One of my several hats at Annex is that of photographer. This is probably the role I enjoy most, as I may have also mentioned before.
Well, we decided a few shows back that it would pay to work up a video for each show, not based on video footage from the show, but rather on some Ken-Burns-style panned stills. Honestly, theater doesn't really lend itself well to videotaping, unless you treat it like a TV show, and actually get the camera up on stage, completely in the audience's way. Even then, for a show like c.1993, the footage would be so jerky from trying to catch everything that's happening that half your audience would have to excuse themselves to go deal with the seasickness.
I had never produced such a video, but I have all the tools and skills necessary for the task, so I volunteered to do it for this show. The process has been educational, and resulted in the following video:
Because I was dealing entirely with photographs large enough to make a decent sized poster at 300 DPI, I decided to do the whole thing in 1080p HD video. Click on the full-screen icon (lower right, four arrows, if you've never done it before) and if your internet connection will handle it (and most broadband will), select 1080p from the size menu (right next to the full-screen button) to experience it in all its glory.
If you're in Seattle, we'd love to see you down at Annex for c.1993, Classy Nonsense, which opens this Friday (right, tomorrow -- it felt like yesterday was Friday, but that's a subject for a different post), or Improsia, next Tuesday. They're all amazingly good shows, and Annex has almost literally the cheapest theater tickets in town, just $15 for the mainstage, c.1993, and $10 for the other shows.
Posted at 09:20 permanent link category: /theater
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater