Lauren Mandilian

This weekend we were in the Green Screen Room filming the “digital dancers” in the Rain scene at the beginning of the piece. Each dancer was filmed separately, but because they had to appear to morph out of each other, I had to measure and mark the floor with tape so they knew where to stand at certain points in the piece.
We had some constraints though because the Green Screen Room wasn’t deep enough for the camera to capture the entire stage. This led to us positioning the camera on an angle. Another constraint was that the size of the stage was not very big. This led to the dancers having to perform small movements. Because of all the space constraints, I will most likely have to film the final version of the digital dancers on stage in Mandell Theater during the time I am in there testing.

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Happy Cog kicked off their Open House with the Comhaltas Launch Party. Plenty of food was served as well as music from a local traditional Irish band. Parties involved in the organization and site video chatted from Ireland, Great Britain, and the US. The webcast was streamed live on the Comhaltas site. Be sure to check out the site at http://www.comhaltas.ie/.

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Today I went to check out a possible space on Drexel’s campus for testing the engineer’s motion capture system. The Annex building, located on Cherry Street (between 32nd and 33rd streets), had a room that was just about the width of the stage in Mandell Theater; however, the room wasn’t very deep so I don’t think we will be able to use the space after all. Click here to see the photos and measurements I took.

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