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).
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.
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 »
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 »
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.”
Spider-Man tracking screens mapping
Media designer Howard Werner and associate media designer/video technician Jason Lindahl shared some of the technical aspects of the projection elements for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
- The projection system setup control is via a PRG v676 console. This system controls the moving lights and the video. During programming, the team worked from three facepanels, one for the moving light programmer, one for video programming, and one as a master. For the run of the production, there is one facepanel and one backup server.
Scenic Design Team
George Tyspin, scenic design
Rob Bissinger, associate designer
Arturo Virtmanis, dimensional design
Baiba Baiba, graphic design
Sergei Goloshapov, cityscape graphics
PRG, which provided much of the technology seen on and the around the Spider-Man stage, has produced a series of “webisodes” on the project, the first of which can be seen here. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo Jacob Cohl
Original Director: Julie Taymor
Choreography and Ariel Choreography: Daniel Ezralow
Additional Choreography: Chase Brock
Resident Director: Keith Batten
Resident Choreographer: Jason Snow
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