Strangely on of the main inspirations for my project was watching one of the extras from “Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War of The Worlds, Live on Stage” DVD. It was a short featurette on how they created the giant talking head of Richard Burton for the stage. I found it a really interesting concept. Below is a short breakdown of their process…
*Incidently the company that handled the actual projections during the live show also supplies Stevie Marr with his equipment for the Maximo Park shows.
First the production team tested the idea of projection onto a face shape…
They then tested an animated speaking projection onto the face shape…
The final facial animations were completed in motion graphics software (After Effects? Combustion? Shake? Fusion?)
The head was tested on stage with stage lighting…
The final head during the live show…
Althought the final piece isn’t perfect, its an interesting approach to the problem of how to visualise a dead narrator.
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