I have to admit that till then I did not understand the deeper sense of the
sensors that measure the emotions.
I tell you what I got wrong:
The idea behind is revolutionary in theater. First time the audience get
visualized what an actor really feels while playing this and that scene.
You could say with - the technique that we are using for directing and
playing - an actor would simple play that good that the audience believes
he really feels the emotions that he acts.
Do the actors of Odysseus and his companions really fear for their live
while being together with cruel Polyphem on stage?
No certainly not.
Maybe Odysseus would be concentrated on his text, or on doing the right
movements, or he would thing of his stomach because he has eaten a bad fish
before (Lukas loved this example :-)
So if he is "a good actor" an audience member would never see this.
We now have a new possibility to blow life into our VIRTUAL ACTORS:
you will NOT see what Odysseus fears in this moment, you will NOT see the
fear of life in the presence of Polyphem.
you will see that bad fish that the actor has eaten before the performance
I think that this idea is better than I thought it is. What I got wrong was
that we wanted to show the _played emotions_ of the actor (in this example
the fear for life) that I thought, with all due respect to the work of
Stanislavsky, is impossible or at least unfair against the actors - to
measure their being good or bad.
Though this idea has the advantages, to show something normally hidden on
the one hand, and on the other hand is a possibility to show that our
virtual actors are really living, feeling,... and not are preprogrammed
light variations, as usual in theater where you have a light technician who
goes from light cue to light cue listening to his word cues( - here we have
to think of the discussion we had in November I think - why do we not have
the lightcones preprogrammed?)
the disadvantage that I see is that
_ how can the audience understand this_??
how can I have predefined colors, that I either tell the audience before
like red = love, blue=fear ??? or what ever, or even better, these colors
speak for themselves, so that the audience recognize a red light cone as a
feeling of love,
but what should the spectator think when seeing
a red light cone (= light cone in love)
while speaking to cruel Cyclops Polyphem
Mon
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Monika Wunderer wunderer@st1hobel.phl.univie.ac.at
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"Wenn das was ich liebe bloss in Australien waere. ...
Waehrend das, was ich suche", sagte Belacqua
und verfolgte, so moechte es beinah scheinen, seine eigenen Gedanken,
"nirgedwo ist, so weit ich sehen kann."
"Vobiscum", fluesterte Cappa, "hab' ich recht?"
(S. Beckett)