Ray Bradbury Projection Design
Theater Media Design Storyboard
“This was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to live out their lives.”
Description
I created a storyboard animation sequence for an imagined production of Ray Bradbury's short story "All Summer in a Day." I told the story through projected images and videos inside a geodesic dome to mimic the children’s space station on Venus. I created this storyboard using Isadora and Adobe Photoshop in November 2018.
THEA 461: Intro to Media Design was a studio course focused on the skills of creating programmed images for live performance of dance, theatre, and music theatre. Development of technical skills was paralleled with an understanding of the relationship of projected images to text, performer, space, and time.
Screenshots
“All day yesterday the children had read in class about the sun. ‘I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.’”
“The children pushed Margo into a closet, where they locked the door. They saw it tremble from her throwing herself against it.”
“The sun was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color.”
“It was the color of rubber and ash, this jungle, from the many years without sun.”
“Lightning struck ten miles away, five miles, a mile. The sky darkened into midnight in a flash.”
“Behind the closet door there was only silence. The children unlocked the door and let Margo out.”