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Dance Xpress performances with Arkaos MediaMaster

Dance Xpress performances with Arkaos MediaMaster

Scott Guenther of Full Stage Productions, Texas chose Arkaos MediaMaster Pro 4.0 to help create the backdrop to performances from Dallas-based dance academy, Dance Xpress. The production, entitled ‘Smooth Operators’, was a tribute to the music and work of English singer-songwriter, Sade.

 

Guenther used a single projector to project a mélange of imagery onto the back wall of the performance space, which mixed live and pre-recorded content for the show. Guenther filmed images of the dancers in stages of preparation for the performance - close ups of faces, arranging hair, donning point shoes etc - and juxtaposed these with live images of the performers in mid-air and on stage.

 

The opening number to the show included ‘shadow’ images of the dancers which Guenther was able to synchronise with the live performers, using MediaMaster to slow down and speed up the pre-recorded footage to match the movements on stage.

 

A slightly different technique was used when Guenther created a backdrop for an aerial performance mid-show, by pre-recording footage of strong wind buffeting trees and using MediaMaster to slow the speed of the video right down.

 

Guenther also made use of MediaMaster’s edge-blending feature and its ability to control different layers of an image for the closing number of the show. “We filmed a dancer in a white dress with a transparent material articulating around her as she moved under a very harsh light,” says Guenther. “I used MediaMaster to slow the movement right down and switched on the frame blending function.

 

“With this I was able to run the content extremely slowly, yet still maintain a tremendously smooth image rendition. The result was a very ghost-like image, over which I layered a smoke effect to give it a glowing bloom, and interspersed it with video of the live performance. I was able to do all this by feeding raw video into MediaMaster and editing it within the software through layering and effects.”

 

The back wall was flanked by six Chauvet Epix 2.0 Strips arranged in two vertical columns and controlled via Arkaos Klingnet protocol. All lighting, including the Epix, and the Arkaos video was controlled via a Jands Vista S1 console running version 2.3 software on a Macbook Pro.

 

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Dance Xpress performances with Arkaos MediaMasterDance Xpress performances with Arkaos MediaMaster

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