Fragmented/Fused Bluescreen Shoot
No, this isn't a picture of the wide, blue, Winnipeg sky that so often covers this prairie city. It's actually a shot of the blue wall at the Winnipeg Film Group, where Alex and I spent the day yesterday shooting video for the Freed the Puppet project's "new" stage show Fragmented/Fused. I place the word 'new' in quotations because I've been experimenting with Chroma Keying for this project for almost a year, beginning last November with shoots from Vancouver to Montreal. I started with bright green bristol board, isolating various participants' body fragments and learning how to key the colour and drop the background. Last spring with the help of Freed contributor and dancer Karissa Fyrrar, we shot in the green screen room at SFU's SIAT campus. That's where I realized we needed a floor, which we found at Video Pool and the Winnipeg Film Group. These two media co-op's, in the ArtSpace building in Winnipeg's Exchange District, provide members with production assistance, equipment and facility rental, and opportunities for submission. We've (Alex and I) had one shoot at Video Pool and two at WFG so far, and have another booked for the 16th of this month. This last shoot will hopefully garner us all the necessary material to complete the Fragmented/Fused video component in time for display and performance on the road in October!
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