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About Hasibullah

A Computer Science and Media master Student in Bauhaus University Weimar.

Puffer fish for protection

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As can be seen from the above movie, The puffer fish use a method to protect itself from danger, using the same concept in mind, it could be used for our own costume to built as a protection of captain Nemo the puff protection system could be used on the shoulder, but we will test it out if this idea would work or not.

 

Costume Observation by WISEHA team.

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Die Disziplinaranstalt | Kassablanca Jena 

Direction: Mathias Znidarec / Stage: Cederic Kraus / Costumes: Filomena Krause  / Dramaturgy: Friederike Weidner

Focus on Actress: Lena Vogt 

1. Entrance: guardrail – fur cap/black jacket/trousers – Aglaia – russian Style

2. downstairs – jacket off > black pullover – GOES OFF

3. comes in with tinsel (hangs it up)

cap off = Semjon – GOES OFF

4. white fur coat / grey scarf / silver dress / gold sneakers > Aglaia / Russian chic, ritch

Coat off, jewelry off > evening dress – GOES OF

5. pink Tulle dress (2 skirts) / white shoes > maiden like

Black trousers under

Tries to take off the upper part of the dress – then the lower part

> White shirt / black trousers

> Takes off this – Wonderwoman Costume (blue skirt/red top) – rebell like

GOES OFF

6. black bathrobe (sitts in front of the TV) – GOES OFF

7. black bathrobe (stands in front of the shelf – talks in camera) – GOES OFF

8. blue shorts / white T-Shirt / silver sneakers

Director (Spider) allocates the roles

9. Fürst Myshkin: > takes on a white hair-band

Role plays:

Theater for Kids: Octagon (paperboard)

Operetta: GOES OFF and comes in with wihte T-Shirts ans huge skirt

   – By and by she takes off the T-Shirts (8 or 9)

Pink (plastic) Jacket (sits next to the author)

Take off the skirt > blue shorts – GOES OFF

Comes in with 3 helmets (red, blue and white), everybody gets one

Movie advise scene: everywhere film-costumes (hidden everywhere at the stage) Spiderman, Batman, ET-finger, …

 

A: Lightning

  • A candle-light with a bulb (plastic light).
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Picture from Theatre website

 

  • Spotlight on important situation and persons, for example: a discussions with only twopersons.
  • all lights were bright, as she screamed.
  • Sepia-Light in the end of the theatre piece.

Technology

  • Loud music is played to symbolise a party
  • 10 TV’s with sometimes different scenes and on many places (audience, stage, ..)
  • TV scenes illustrate the theatre piece and connects the scenes together
  • On the screen.

a: Ad: Gillette (with Sebastian Vettel)
b: Miley Cyrus Pictures
c: Ad: Different commercials
d: Videos from love scenes from different movie.

e: Ad: Frauengold

  • a webcam is on the shelf and the image is transferred to the live TV
  • at the end is a scene on all screens, on each screen is a person there, and they do not talk directly to each other but it seems like a conversation

 

The robot was controlled by another person via remote control
The robot was controlled by another person via remote control
A TV set on the stage
A TV set on the stage
Actors looking to TV.
Actors looking to TV.
Actress controlling the Radio.
Actress controlling the Radio.
Stage
  1. –  She used the transparent wall to look at themselves
  2. –  has a box in hand with glitter, and throws them into the air on to it
  3. –  sometimes she sits on the couch, sits elegantly on the couch backrest or is on the table
  4. –  She goes with her face to the wall. and her face glued to the wall
  5. –  she holds a book in his hand and reads from it or holds a vase
  6. –  she holds an invisible cigarette and doing so as they would smoke
  7. –  they used to change the radio to the total volume
  8. –  she brings many letters, throws around, takes a letter and reads from it
  9. –  she runs from the stage into the audience
  10. –  she has a box in her hand, she makes up and gets a robot out there and puts it on the floor
  11. –  the robot is remotely controlled, and moves on the stage (octopus robot)
  12. –  she nudges with a broom the robot away
  13. –  she holds a oktagon before the face
  14. –  She sits on a judo helmet, holds a sword in her hands or throws a shoe
  15. –  she takes a lot of utensils from the cabinet, among other things, an inflatable dolphin .
Posing on the Sofa.
Posing on the Sofa.

 

Actress

With a new costume.
With a new costume.

 

With a big gown like costume.
With a big gown like costume.

 

Die Disziplinaranstalt
Picture from the theatre website.

 

 

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Actress
From the theatre website.
From the theatre website.

 

 

Interaction with other characters

  • she dances with another actress
  • she takes scissors and tape and binds it to another actor .
  • Interaction with Robot.
Actress scared from Robot.
Actress scared from Robot.

 

Actress hitting the robot with a stick .
Actress hitting the robot with a stick .

 

All the together watching an add on TV.
All the together watching an add on TV.

 

End:

All together at the end of the play.
All together at the end of the play.

 

All together At the end of the play
All together At the end of the play

 

Stage At the end.
Stage At the end.

 

Stage At end.
Stage At end.

 

shoes

Introduction to Smoke and Fog Machines

Technologies Warm-up task No Comments

Different Kinds of Smoke:

1: Fog:

Composed of Glycol/ Water Mixtures (Flog Fluid) into a heat exchanger, Is heated until the fluid is vaporized.
Fog Machine

2: Carbon Dioxide and Dry Ice:

This is used with the combination with Fog Machine. CO2 will dense the fog.

Dry Ice can also produce Fog, by adding Hot water on to Dry Ice. Dry Ice can be used with Fog Machine too.
Fog Machine + Dry Ice Container = Output.

3: Nitrogen:

Machine Heating water in container + pure Nitrogen = Output it.

Fog Machines: 

1: Tiny Fog Machine:

This tiny fogger can be used in different parts of body without actor being annoyed with.

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Video Here.

2: Micro Fog machine:

Micro Fogger
Micro Fogger

See Video

3: Other Solutions:

Mobile Fogger
Mobile Fogger

Implementation:

Tiny Fogger can be placed in different parts of the King Ubu and later can be controlled by remote control to produce fogs.

Mobile Fogger which is a big fogger machine can be fixed at one central location of the body and then distribute the fog to different regions of body by pipes (flexible and light) and it can be controlled by remote control.