Final Performance
Our final show at Alison House Artium on April 5th at 4 pm marks the culmination of our efforts. I extend heartfelt thanks to everyone involved, particularly the professional dancers and small fish players whose contributions enriched the performance with skill and artistry. It’s important to acknowledge the dedication and hard work of each group member toward this achievement. Every individual’s significant efforts merit both encouragement and commendation. Lastly, I present the carefully edited full version of the live video, featuring multiple viewpoints, including audience perspective and fixed angles, to offer the most objective presentation possible.
Reflection
I took notes on some of the advice given by the audience and teachers after formal performances.
- Interms of innovation and creativity, try making the fish lantern a motorised unit to better remote control it for many poses.
- The current three screens are too independent, showing their content on their own. We should try to make the three screens the same colour or connect them into one big long screen to surround the audience for a more immersive effect.
- One of my biggest regrets is the lighting, as the most missing part. Due to technical constraints, we were not able to program a nice stage lighting setup and chose to use artificial lighting instead. The dancers’ costumes were very beautiful, using traditional Tibetan religious dresses, however, unfortunately, the brightness of our lighting equipment was too low to bring out the costumes and the dance performance in a more stunning way. We had discussed and tried to put light strips on the dress to make it self-illuminating, but this had the disadvantage of restricting the dancer’s performance and preventing her from making bold swings. Therefore, we finally decided to use a weak artificial light. Had we had more time this term, we would all have been willing to learn how to programme stage lighting from a novice.
- As I mentioned in my last post, the strip of lights separating the audience from the stage was a little too shaky. Since it’s sound-activated, it flickers like crazy during some of the high-frequency drum clips. We probably should have dimmed it or taped it to the other side of the bubble wrap.
- Are subtitles really necessary? As most voiceovers are clear. However, considering that the audience may come from various countries and perhaps their first language is not English, and we aim to prioritise ensuring that we can tell the story well, a second thought was to add full subtitles.
