Hello, we are team Curtain Call, and this is our postmortem for the project for this semester. To start off, what did we do? Curtain Call was a project in collaboration with the CMU School of Drama in order to create a lobby installation for their production of Lear, an avant garde play that explores …
Summary of the week: We finished up for the semester! We cleaned up after the festival, cleaned up our project room, and gave our final presentation! Breaking Down Festival We restore the board game room to its original state, moving the shelves from the window alcove and back against the walls. We then took down …
Summary of the week: This week, we took down the installation at the Purnell lobby. We also ran two versions of our experience at the ETC Fall Festival! Moving Back to the ETC Angie got everyone donuts and Aldora got Starbucks for the team for the hard work. We took the installation down together as …
Summary of the week: Showtime! This is the week of the play. We are installing everything and running our installation before and after all four shows this week! Installation On Monday, starting at 9AM, we began installation. Angie brought bagels and everyone got to work! Eliot and Louise were helping out with the installation. We …
Summary of the week: This week, we finished up some of our final work and moved our materials to the crossover of the Rauh to install after Thanksgiving! Shopping Trip This week, Lauren led a shopping trip to Michael’s and Best Buy to purchase any last items we needed for our installation including cloud fluff, …
Summary of the week: Aldora, Angie, and Lauren spent much of the week at the IAAPA conference in Orlando, Florida! The team otherwise worked more on final tasks including lighting, pedestals, clouds, hardware, software, and audio. IAAPA Aldora, Angie, and Lauren spent much of the week away at the IAAPA conference in Orlando, Florida! Aldora …
Summary of the week: This week, we did some more testing at the Purnell Lobby and did further work on the clouds, pedestals, and speakers! John’s Installation Advice We received the following recommendations from John with respect to a plan for installing our umbrellas/directional speakers without the need for a Genie lift. We really appreciate …
Summary of the week: This week was Playtest Day! We spent the week preparing two stations/vertical slices of our experience for our playtesters to experience. We welcomed 44 playtesters at Playtest Day and felt encouraged by the results, but also learned some important lessons regarding issues with the audio that we will address for our …
Summary of the week: With just over a month until the first show, our team worked on nailing down some of the crucial details of our installation (props, narrative, pedestals, etc.) and making a plan for everything left to be done. We had several meetings this week including with our faculty, our point of contact …
Summary of the week: This week was fall break, but still our team went above and beyond for our project! We worked on preparing more items for the installation, checking on our installation tests at ETC over time for any sagging or issues, and writing team blogs. Jiaxin worked on preparing more of the clouds …