1st Edition
by Alex Oliszewski (Author), Daniel Fine (Author), Daniel Roth (Author)
Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for Theatre
covers the foundational skills, best practices, and real-world
considerations of integrating digital media and projections into
theatre. The authors, professional designers and university professors
of digital media in live performance, provide readers with a narrative
overview of the professional field, including current industry standards
and expectations for digital media/projection design, its related
technologies and techniques. The book offers a practical taxonomy of
what digital media is and how we create meaning through its use on the
theatrical stage.
The book outlines the digital
media/projection designer’s workflow into nine unique phases. From the
very first steps of landing the job, to reading and analyzing the script
and creating content, all the way through to opening night and
archiving a design. Detailed analysis, tips, case studies, and best
practices for crafting a practical schedule and budget, to rehearsing
with digital media, working with actors and directors, to creating a
unified design for the stage with lighting, set, sound, costumes, and
props is discussed.
The fundamentals of content
creation, detailing the basic building blocks of creating and executing
digital content within a design is offered in context of the most
commonly used content creation methods, including: photography and still
images, video, animation, real-time effects, generative art, data, and
interactive digital media. Standard professional industry equipment,
including media servers, projectors, projection surfaces, emissive
displays, cameras, sensors, etc. is detailed. The book also offers a
breakdown of all key related technical tasks, such as converging,
warping, and blending projectors, to calculating surface
brightness/luminance, screen size and throw distance, to using masks,
warping content and projection mapping, making this a complete guide to
digital media and projection design today.
An eResource page offers sample assets and interviews that link to current and relevant work of leading projection designers.
