Our work is based on Martin Luther King and we was able capture the most significant moments in his life leading up to his death in 1968. We theme because it was one of biggest thing changed history, our audience would be teenagers and above they would better understand about the story. We looked at different types of puppetry to perform the story about Martin Luther Lither king, we went with shadow puppets because we thought if it was executed well if would effective. One of the problems that we have was coming up with the scenes. We have so many scenes which came to concern because, it would lead us into making a lot of shadow puppets which would have been a struggle due the most amount of time that we got, but we were able to overcome the problem and manage to get it down to eight scenes which was still challenge.
We started to focus on the design of theatre set for the shadow puppets, we didn’t know whether to have the screen for the shadow puppets and have two screens behind each side for the projection. However, we went with the idea of doing one big frame and spilt it into two and have the top half for the shadow puppet and have the bottom half boarded for the projection.
Then we allocated each other roles best suited to everyone’s abilities, the role we had were making the shadow puppets, props, making the vector to be laser cut, preforming, filming, editing and making the audio. Our idea was to mainly hand make the shadow puppets because it gives our personal touch however, we did decide to do some laser cut because we wouldn’t have enough time make them.
I experimented with different colour acetate seeing how it looks, I think it looks good, but I feel like if you add too much colour. However, it would get too distracting with all the different colours, and I feel we would have to be consistence with adding the colour which would add more time. We also experimented with different transitions for making more interesting when going to the next scene. We did a lot of zooming in and out, which was moving the shadow forward away from the light source to make the shadow bigger which, makes it blurry and moving it back to make it smaller sharper. We also tested the projection on the theatre set and it looked great and there was nothing that we needed to worry about.
Overall, we managed to get all our shadow puppets and props done which was ready to be filmed. We went to a discussion of filming in the shell because our theatre set was already down there, and we wouldn’t be able to move the studio upstairs because the set is too big. but it worked out because we had control of the light and positioning the theatre set which would give an idea where we need to put everything when we do the live performance.
We boxed apart of the theatre set so when we’re performing were also in frame with the camera, so we do need waste time cutting each frame to size, which would be making easier when editing the picture.
The concerns that we had was when we do the live performance were able to us behind the screen along with our shadows which was really distracting. So, moved the theatre set forward away from the light but it didn’t make huge different to we tired different coloured gels which change the light colour and that make more of a different however we need to change the contract because it was leaving strong coloured background. But we ended up changing the light level to 3 which was much better and didn’t see much the performers. In addition, I feel like we did a great job working together as a group and creating a strong concept and being able to produce it week before the deadline. I feel like I that could be improve on the structure the shadow puppets some of the arms needed to be bent. But overall I feel like we did a great job.
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