Projection Design Meeting

Emily, Jake and Akari in attendance...

- Moment title images
o The three of us agreed that we want to have moment titles by themselves, not with “Moment” attached
o Silent movie title cards? Specific border and font. “Calm” not “distracting”…Found font…maybe a little sci-fi?
- Ideally 3 projectors, one with title images, the other two with images from text
- No pictures clearly from Google images, stylize somehow
- Maybe with Fred Phelps all projectors used, taking over background of scene
- Question of showing real people like Matt, Aaron, Russell
o Not the “Matthew Shepard Project,” showing him as saintly, perfect not accomplishing anything
o When and why would we be using Russ/Aaron?
o Projecting Russ or Aaron’s face over Ethan’s,
- Projecting images of Angels, covering Fred Phelps
- Actors interacting with projections, directors can decide
- “Gem City of the Plains” – video of news reports
- Go to micro-film room to find images of news reports
- “Vigils”
- Showing the sky, the open space
- Dennis Shepard monologues, images of sky/what he’s talking about framing him
- “The Word”: religious symbols, iconography for each denomination
- “Funeral”: Snow
- Trial – audience listening to this recording, still projecting image of title? Of Aaron? Or lights down, just listening to voice
- Starting the show with images of Laramie, landscape, entering theater as entering Laramie
- Not going for obvious images, things referenced in text
- Want to see the fence when they talk about the fence, not like the railroad (we don’t need to see a railroad)
- General rule: If a moment has one projection, it’s there when the title comes up. Because they are individual moments of theater, they can signify cutting from scene to scene, cinematic
- Fred Phelps – angels take over projections of signs
- Look back at visual research, abstract images even, bringing out emotion
- Example: “Easier Said than Done” – being an outsider in the community, what image would resonate with that
- “A Scarf” – having contrast with “The Word,” Christian images?
- Assigning particular images – Akari will look for pictures of Laramie landscape, Emily will look for Christian iconography and Fred Phelps, Jake will find snow and angels.