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Shipwrecked batik creation, Part Two!
Oct. 6th, 2010 07:41 amThe other day, i wrote about the first half of this story, namely, how the creative team and i came to the decision of what fabric pattern we were going to create, and how we were going to create it.
Before i continue with the batiking process discussiong, I have to say, modern technology really facilitates such collaborations as ours incredibly. Our team is based as far away as Los Angeles (the director, Tom) and Brooklyn (the set designer, Robin), and as close as the office down the hall from me (the sound designer, Ryan). We've only all been in a room together twice, when everyone was in town for a weekend of auditions and initial meetings. However, thanks to email, online photo-sharing sites like Photobucket and Smugmug, blog hosts, video-clip publishing sites like YouTube, scanners and digital image manipulation programs, and cell phones, we've been in close and quick contact ever since those initial meetings.
Just last week, Robin scanned a sketch of an idea to begin a discussion of an effect, a discussion grew over email, i scanned another sketch i did in response, then filmed a 15-second video in the rehearsal hall of a demonstration of it (which needed movement to clarify some questions), and we were all able to "talk" about the physical elements of the show as if we were in the same room passing around drawings or jumping up and doing movements.
In that first meeting, Tom made a comment along the lines of, "We never could have done this without all being in the same room," referring to our initial read-through and discussion of the play gathered around Robin's set model. And he's right, being in the same room initially as a team, meeting one another as a group and interacting in person, really laid some groundwork for the collaborative process such that now, when we share and discuss things remotely, we know what our rapport is as people in real-time. I could imagine doing a show entirely by web, with people i already knew and had some kind of rapport with. I don't know so much about a creative team i'd never met. It would be far more challenging.
But anyhow, I digress. I planned to write the second half of the batik process, so here we go!
Yesterday, I left off with the choice of which sample fabric was going to be the one used in the show, two different base fabrics which had been batiked, and two different digitally-printed fabrics from Spoonflower. I knew that the one to go with was the batik on a muslin ground, so here's what happened next...
( photos )
Before i continue with the batiking process discussiong, I have to say, modern technology really facilitates such collaborations as ours incredibly. Our team is based as far away as Los Angeles (the director, Tom) and Brooklyn (the set designer, Robin), and as close as the office down the hall from me (the sound designer, Ryan). We've only all been in a room together twice, when everyone was in town for a weekend of auditions and initial meetings. However, thanks to email, online photo-sharing sites like Photobucket and Smugmug, blog hosts, video-clip publishing sites like YouTube, scanners and digital image manipulation programs, and cell phones, we've been in close and quick contact ever since those initial meetings.
Just last week, Robin scanned a sketch of an idea to begin a discussion of an effect, a discussion grew over email, i scanned another sketch i did in response, then filmed a 15-second video in the rehearsal hall of a demonstration of it (which needed movement to clarify some questions), and we were all able to "talk" about the physical elements of the show as if we were in the same room passing around drawings or jumping up and doing movements.
In that first meeting, Tom made a comment along the lines of, "We never could have done this without all being in the same room," referring to our initial read-through and discussion of the play gathered around Robin's set model. And he's right, being in the same room initially as a team, meeting one another as a group and interacting in person, really laid some groundwork for the collaborative process such that now, when we share and discuss things remotely, we know what our rapport is as people in real-time. I could imagine doing a show entirely by web, with people i already knew and had some kind of rapport with. I don't know so much about a creative team i'd never met. It would be far more challenging.
But anyhow, I digress. I planned to write the second half of the batik process, so here we go!
Yesterday, I left off with the choice of which sample fabric was going to be the one used in the show, two different base fabrics which had been batiked, and two different digitally-printed fabrics from Spoonflower. I knew that the one to go with was the batik on a muslin ground, so here's what happened next...
( photos )
