Fantasy Project

Critique
The performances were quite varied as each of us tried to find some way to interact with each other while still staying in our own element.

The first group seemed to have the most success with interaction, movement, and noise in that it ended up mostly being an arena-style fighting match, and three of the performers had swords or staffs. I especially liked Jeff's balloon pop-when-stabbed costume, because it was well utilized during that one minute.

In the second group, I really liked how Sara acted blown in the wind and Libby joined in as a bird and was also affected by it.

The third group, which I participated in, had two weird guys and one scantily clad homeless girl, and ended up being a kind of dark and scary um...assault. My apologies to Whitney for that one. Nice job fighting back though!

In the fourth group, it ended up being some kind of graceful-ish ceremonial tribute with Ryan doing a dance in the middle and Sarah and Christine dancing in a circle around him.

Costume-wise, I felt that Libby and Whitney's costumes were the most impressive for the amount of time and/or commitment that was put into making and wearing them.


My Costume and Process
My costume was...errr. The intent was there somewhere. The original goal was to be a tribal outfit, but that got nixed somewhere in the process of creating it, and ended up being a comic book villain kind of outfit.

For noise, I cut plastic water bottles in half, put beans in each side, and sealed them up with duct tape. I also put screws and nuts into two large aluminum cans and wrapped it up in duct tape to help muffle the sound. I placed these on my legs, arms, and one on my head.

For the helmet, I went the Pepakura-Bondo route. Originally I was going to make a beast mask, which would merit this technique a bit better, but to cut the cost of time I went for a kind of helmet. Basically, I design the mask in a 3D program, unfold it using Pepakura software, print it out, cut it out, and glue it together. Then I Bondo'ed the exterior and painted it with some silver-gray auto paint I had laying around.

I cut, stapled, and duct-taped the fabric parts together. Honestly, I wasn't even sure if the costume would last during the performance, but duct-tape reinforcement goes a long ways. I was even able to walk the half mile to my car and drive it home while still wearing it.