Chroma Key Theatre : an examination of similarities and divergences in the use of Green Screen in two experimental theatre works

Matthew Delbridge; Lee McGowan

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Chroma Key Theatre : an examination of similarities and divergences in the use of Green Screen in two experimental theatre works

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Chroma Key Theatre : an examination of similarities and divergences in the use of Green Screen in two experimental theatre works

Matthew Delbridge and Lee McGowan

Cinema In Theatre in French and English-Speaking Cultures: International Conference (19-Dec-2013–20-Dec-2013)

2013

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Abstract

Performing Arts and Creative Writing

Green Screen

RUFF

Total Dik!

post-dramatic theatre

This paper examines the frame as it contributes to the debate on contemporary intermedial theatre and performance practices in light of increasing astriction between filmic and theatrical discourses. Informed by Auslander (1999), Lehmann (2006), and Giesekam (2007), and through an extrapolation of the tenets Eckersall, Gretchen and Scheer identify in the theory of New Media Dramaturgy, it will analyse two recent works of experimental theatre-making. RUFF (2013), a New York produced solo performance by one of the world's leading female performers, explores her experiences of having a stroke. Total Dik! (2013), produced in Brisbane, Australia, is an interdisciplinary collaborative performance that examines aspects of dictatorship. They are clearly very different works yet there are a number of significant theatrical similarities in their use of Chroma Key technology and live compositing as material scenic devices. These works overtly and evocatively draw on the cinematic technique and technology of Chroma Key to augment and reveal the tensions and overlaps in their production processes.

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Title: Chroma Key Theatre : an examination of similarities and divergences in the use of Green Screen in two experimental theatre works
Authors: Matthew Delbridge (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Lee McGowan (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Conference details: Cinema In Theatre in French and English-Speaking Cultures: International Conference (19-Dec-2013–20-Dec-2013)
Date published: 2013
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450945202621
Output Type: Conference paper

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