Here is PRG’s latest “webisode,” on the show’s automation.
Archive for August, 2011
Fred Gallo’s Technical Direction For Spider-Man
Photo Jacob Cohl
A spider is an eight-legged creature. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has as many moving parts, and keeping them fully functional is the job of Fred Gallo, Production Resource Group founder and president of PRG’s Scenic Technologies division.
Gallery: Spider-Man Load-In
Fred Gallo from PRG provided us with some shots he took during the initial load-in of Spider-Man at the Foxwoods Theatre.
Video: Don Holder’s Spidey Lighting
Here is another “webisode” from PRG, this one on the design and technical components of Don Holder’s lighting. Note that the clips of Holder were filmed during the designer’s session on Spider-Man at this year’s Broadway Lighting Master Classes.
Kyle Cooper’s Projection Design For Spider-Man
Kyle Cooper's video content
Unlike his colleagues, Kyle Cooper, an Emmy winner, has Spider-Man experience, having designed the acclaimed title sequences for all three movies, and for many others besides. But this is his first Broadway show, and it came to him via his work with Julie Taymor on her films Titus (1999), Across the Universe (2007), and, as production ramped up, The Tempest (2010).
Gallery: Projection Images, Characters
Detail of the emergence of Carnage as part of "Sinistereo."
Projections Designer Kyle Cooper provided us with a veritable comic universe of images for Spider-Man. We broke them down into characters, seen here, as well as architecture, available on the photo gallery found here.
Gallery: Projection Images, Architecture
Artwork for a church scene from version one that was cut.
Here are more of projections designer Kyle Cooper’s images for Spider-Man. We broke them down into architecture, seen here, as well as characters, available on the photo gallery found here. Read the rest of this entry »
Gallery: Some Shots From Version 1.0
Here is a sequence of images from Spider-Man 1.0 as our masked webslinger rescues Mary Jane Watson from the Brooklyn Bridge. One of the easiest ways to spot that this is from the earlier version of the show is the presence of the guitarist stage right, who returned to the rest of the orchestra for 2.0. Building and installing the ramp was a particular challenge for the technical crew, who will be featured in posts going up next week. Photos by Jacob Cohl.
VIDEO: Making Spider-Man’s Projections
Media designer Howard Werner, associate media designer/video technician Jason Lindahl, media programmer Phil Gilbert, and PRG video project manager Jeff Kaye discuss the making of the technical system for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Read the rest of this entry »
Howard Werner’s Media Design For Spider-Man
Spider-Man's media design
Howard Werner, media designer for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, has been with the production nearly since its inception more than three years ago. “There was a desire from the beginning to have media as a part of the overall design, and there was always a design element, especially in the second act, that included moving panels of video surface,” says Werner of the initial designs, referred to by many on the creative team as “version 1.”