jtweigandt
Well-Known Member
After experimentation.. rear wall reverse projection and reflective devices worked.. but was too futzy for general use in our facility. I got a few comments about the light changing on the back wall from folks in the back row.
Our projection site possibilities are limited.
So Chapter two.. did a couple of shows with projection directly on to our proscenium top.. It worked, was not terribly distracting but was far enough out of "line of sight" that shifting back and forth between caption and the action on stage was less than optimal.
I did get a musicians page turner foot pedal.. and it makes all the difference in making operating during the show tolerable.
Startiing Chapter three. Hand held devices.. specifically users own phone. I worked out a way to let the user connect to a "no password" wifi connection and then scan a qr code to go to a local "broadcast" of the powerpoint presentation.
The nuts and bolts are.. Router with open wifi no passworded. Totally off grid, no connection to internet or other equipment. A computer connected hosting an install of "Apache Guacamole" What Guac does is serves up a remote desktop or vnc session as an active web page. I set the vnc session to be view only.. and once on the wifi, the qr code directs to the totally local guacamole web server. The client sees the powerpoint screen of the PC that is running the presentation. The beauty is that this doesn't preclude projecting at the same time, so users can have their preference.
So kind of excited to try this third generation out for real.. had to pull from various previous projects and connect it all in my head first... but ... it works.
Our default script to powerpoint conversion is pretty streamlined at present.... Dictate in 2 to 3 line chunks on my phone into a google doc. Save locally to a text file and add a show name header as the first line.. Import into a spreadsheet in google docs, and use an automated add on tool called autocrat in google docs that dumps the spreadsheet into our google slides template.. export to powerpoint for use for the show.
It takes me about 4 hours to read a typical musical in.. and clean up.. and only about 10 minutes to do the conversion to powerpoint.
We're going to divide out the script this season to volunteers to dictate, someone else to proof ... and then I put it through the grinder for the final presentation.
Scanned libretto or even the publishing house was nice enough to give a doc or pdf version for this purpose still had too many divider lines, formatting differences and stage direction. Much faster to dictate than to clean all that up.
Anyway that's a day inside my tortured theatrical mind.
Our projection site possibilities are limited.
So Chapter two.. did a couple of shows with projection directly on to our proscenium top.. It worked, was not terribly distracting but was far enough out of "line of sight" that shifting back and forth between caption and the action on stage was less than optimal.
I did get a musicians page turner foot pedal.. and it makes all the difference in making operating during the show tolerable.
Startiing Chapter three. Hand held devices.. specifically users own phone. I worked out a way to let the user connect to a "no password" wifi connection and then scan a qr code to go to a local "broadcast" of the powerpoint presentation.
The nuts and bolts are.. Router with open wifi no passworded. Totally off grid, no connection to internet or other equipment. A computer connected hosting an install of "Apache Guacamole" What Guac does is serves up a remote desktop or vnc session as an active web page. I set the vnc session to be view only.. and once on the wifi, the qr code directs to the totally local guacamole web server. The client sees the powerpoint screen of the PC that is running the presentation. The beauty is that this doesn't preclude projecting at the same time, so users can have their preference.
So kind of excited to try this third generation out for real.. had to pull from various previous projects and connect it all in my head first... but ... it works.
Our default script to powerpoint conversion is pretty streamlined at present.... Dictate in 2 to 3 line chunks on my phone into a google doc. Save locally to a text file and add a show name header as the first line.. Import into a spreadsheet in google docs, and use an automated add on tool called autocrat in google docs that dumps the spreadsheet into our google slides template.. export to powerpoint for use for the show.
It takes me about 4 hours to read a typical musical in.. and clean up.. and only about 10 minutes to do the conversion to powerpoint.
We're going to divide out the script this season to volunteers to dictate, someone else to proof ... and then I put it through the grinder for the final presentation.
Scanned libretto or even the publishing house was nice enough to give a doc or pdf version for this purpose still had too many divider lines, formatting differences and stage direction. Much faster to dictate than to clean all that up.
Anyway that's a day inside my tortured theatrical mind.