FIELD / ZHEN
Visual system + set design concepts
VISUAL LEMOTIF
‘Us’ / Humanity
We are Spiritual. We are light. We are natural living beings.
Reference – How natural light works
VISUAL STYLING
QiYe + BaYe
Spirits of Impermanence
Referencing back to the origin of QiYe + BaYe.
Water / rainstorm / flood
VISUAL STYLING
Ai
Digital structure striving to live independently.
Can only exist as a ‘known’ thing - learning from the information and data we feed it.
Referencing the visual style of ‘Us’ but relaid in a more digital structure.
VISUAL STYLING
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
INTRO SCENE
STAGE + LIGHTING
Empty stage, soft fill light on stage.
As the audience is entering and taking their seats, clips of current and past world state plays on the back wall of stage (a montage of humanity on earth). As the show start time is coming up, the montage starts the speed up, representing the passing of time. As it gets faster the sampled audio of the audience gets louder and louder. As the crescendo happens, stage lighting gets brighter. The use of audience facing lighting will make the audience feel overwhelmed.
We hit crescendo. The stage gets plunged into darkness. silence.
VISUAL PACING + ‘FEEL’ REFERENCE
SCENE ONE
STAGE + LIGHTING
Dynamic hangings create environment.
Spotlight and side lighting slowly fade up.
QiYe + BaYe Entrance
‘Portal to the Future’
Interactive water flowing on stage floor. Shifting and moving around the Dancers and QiYe + BaYe.
As the scene progresses, the interactive visuals grow in size and brightness to symbolise the introduction of the ‘Portal’ and ‘Ai’.
*On the back wall there will be the ‘caustics’ of the water effect
The Visuals on the back wall shift into a digital structure, showing that AI is now part of the scene.
STAGE FLOOR PROJECTION
Dynamic + interaction type
Create a reflection of the interactive floor, widening the environment.
Caustic system.
Natural water progresses and gets pulled into a digital structure, to symbol the introduction of AI.
Visual style
BACK WALL PROJECTION
Add rain effect (ref. QiYe + BaYe story.
QiYe + BaYe shift into AI at end of scene
Style can still feel natural but soft ‘order’ brought in.
Motion
SCENE TWO
STAGE + LIGHTING
Dynamic hangings are now in line to mimic the digital structure.
Minimal side lighting. Projection to do the heavy lifting.
The Clear divide.
‘Us’ and ‘Ai’ are separate. The need to communicate with each other and begin to figure out the connection.
On the top half of the set, they will be a representation of ‘Ai’ in a grid structure formation. The bottom half, it is ‘Us’.
As the scene progresses, We begin to manipulate and shift the grid structure. We are creating ‘Ai’ to be more like us. In return, our light spirit-like visual we have moments of clipping to the grid structure. We are learning from Ai.
We’re still separate. But the audience begins to see the connection, even though still weak.
TOP HALF OF PROJECTION AND STAGE (AI)
Visual style
BOTTOM HALF OF PROJECTION AND STAGE (US)
Motion
Visual style
SCENE THREE
AI VISUAL AND ‘OUR’ VISUAL PUSH AND PULL EACH OTHER. FIGHTING FOR THE LEAD.
QiYe + BaYe Entrance
‘Portal to the Future’
Interactive water flowing on stage floor. Shifting and moving around the Dancers and QiYe + BaYe.
As the scene progresses, the interactive visuals grow in size and brightness to symbolise the introduction of the ‘Portal’ and ‘Ai’.
*On the back wall there will be the ‘caustics’ of the water effect
The Visuals on the back wall shift into a digital structure, showing that AI is now part of the scene.
SCENE FOUR
AI VISUAL AND ‘OUR’ VISUAL PUSH AND PULL EACH OTHER. FIGHTING FOR THE LEAD.
QiYe + BaYe Entrance
‘Portal to the Future’
Interactive water flowing on stage floor. Shifting and moving around the Dancers and QiYe + BaYe.
As the scene progresses, the interactive visuals grow in size and brightness to symbolise the introduction of the ‘Portal’ and ‘Ai’.
*On the back wall there will be the ‘caustics’ of the water effect
The Visuals on the back wall shift into a digital structure, showing that AI is now part of the scene.
SCENE FIVE
AI VISUAL AND ‘OUR’ VISUAL PUSH AND PULL EACH OTHER. FIGHTING FOR THE LEAD.
QiYe + BaYe Entrance
‘Portal to the Future’
Interactive water flowing on stage floor. Shifting and moving around the Dancers and QiYe + BaYe.
As the scene progresses, the interactive visuals grow in size and brightness to symbolise the introduction of the ‘Portal’ and ‘Ai’.
*On the back wall there will be the ‘caustics’ of the water effect
The Visuals on the back wall shift into a digital structure, showing that AI is now part of the scene.
Warm ‘dusk’ environment - symbolise the end of the tension. Ready for the start of a new day.
INTERACTION
BACK WALL PROJECTION - STYLING / VIBE
