How it works
Design
You've looked at the catalogue. But, maybe you may want to go with something completely new. YOU have ideas. YOU want to see them realised as part of your overall production design.
After you contact me, I will discuss your ideas in more detail. This can be done via Google Meet. A face-to-face meeting may be possible, depending on your location.
Once you have shared your ideas, we will work together to ensure the final images or animation sequences will meet your visual concepts.
Just so you can prepare, some of things I'll ask and discuss with you will include:
What kind of venue is the project for: A theatre? A meeting facility? A school hall? This will lead to some more technical questions like the dimensions and aspect ratio of the projector screen(s), if it's rear or forward-projected, the number of screens, its placement on the surface relative to actors standing in front (or behind) it, etc.
What would you like me to do for you: Projections? Animations? Music and/or sound effects? All of them?
Should the projections be 'to scale' to the actors? In other words, should the actors appear to be standing in front of appropriately sized objects in the projection? This is taken into consideration when I design the images.
What's your budget and when do you need the final product by?
Can you source your own projector(s)? Does the theatre have any in its inventory? There may be equipment rental fees to consider. (At this point, I cannot source any equipment for your project, but I can probably help you find someone who can.)
Have you talked to your lighting designer(s)? They will want to know what you have in mind from an early stage. Ideally, lights and projections need to work together (compliment each other) or one will wash out (or otherwise interfere) with the other. We can all be friends, though! I will be happy to liaise with your lighting people.
Do you require any projection mapping?
What creative ideas do you have in mind? Tell us everything!
This will kick-off a collaboration made in heaven. Even long-distance, I can communicate and you'll be able to see the progress of work as it goes along through online file sharing. I can liaise with you as often as you like during the life cycle of the project.
On completion you will have a quality product which reflects your artistic vision.
Performance
When the your designs are completed will have access to all the videos and/or images via a shared folder. This is sufficient for most clients as they will take one or more steps after this:
Download all the files to a local resource (a computer or laptop).
Insert the files into a cueing system. There are several available, and this is something you may want to discuss with your Stage Manager, Lighting designer or other technical talent that will be responsible for playing the projections.
In most cases, simply using Microsoft PowerPoint will work nicely. Loosely speaking, you have one video, image (or blackout) per slide, with the videos set to 'auto play'. If everything is set correctly, the projections operator will simply need to follow the script and hit the spacebar to advance cues.