Syllabus: Motion Tracking for Live Performance (TH3310.01 Special Topics)

Motion Tracking for Live Performance (TH3310.01 Special Topics)

Instructor: Matt Kizer, Professor of Theatre

Course Description: Each student should become able to discuss moving lights, projections, motion-tracking, and cueing in the context of a production, and to contribute to a collaboration using the technologies introduced in this class in one or more roles as a theatre professional.

Course Objectives and Goals:

  • Discuss moving lights, projections, motion-tracking, and cueing in the context of a production
  • Contribute to a collaboration using the technologies introduced in this class in one or more roles as a theatre professional.

Course Topics:

  • Program moving light sequences
  • Acting within moving lights
  • Creating narratives for moving lights
  • Designing projections
  • Creating cues for projections
  • Changing scenery with projections
  • Cueing all of these
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