A dramatically engaging, layered story experience that breathed new life into the ideas of transmedia storytelling, it raised the bar for the kind of emotional experiences that people can expect from the world
of immersive theater — and it pulled it all off by making the audience part of the storytelling itself.
That running feedback turned the ARG portion of Tension — and, later, sections
of the immersive theater show — into a piece of constant, on - the - fly improvisation.
The story of a heist that happens in the middle
of an immersive theater production, the script Tension was Bousman's original way of bringing attention to a medium he'd fallen in love with after seeing productions like Sleep No More and Then She Fell.
But it was also shaped by the work
of immersive theater company Third Rail Projects, whose best - known work Then She Fell lets 15 audience members explore a Lewis Carroll - inspired world.
In recent years, spectacular special effects, high - tech scenography, and the rise
of immersive theater, among other innovations, have all contributed to an evolution in the proscenium theatrical experience.
Not exact matches
Regal Premium Experience (RPX)
theaters feature a custom - built premium environment featuring elegant and luxurious seats, a giant
immersive screen illuminated by high - quality digital projectors and a state -
of - the - art sound system movie fans.
This two - story
immersive event comes from the minds
of some wonderfully fun Chicago
theater artists (Henry Wishcamper, Jo Cattell and Frank Maugieri to name three), known for their innovative work from Broadway to the West Coast.
What to say
of a work that, for all its rapture with the sheer possibilities
of the image, wholly retools the typical workings
of cinema's less - heralded half, such that the act
of listening is elevated to a level
of immersive engagement that has perhaps been lacking in
theaters, again, since Sunrise?
This thing is stunning on a big iMax screen and probably one
of the most
immersive 3D experiences I've had at a
theater in a long time.
It's rather interesting to note that Warner decided to market the film, much like Hitchcock would have probably done, by using a simple yet highly effective warning to all future audiences that the lights in the
theaters would be toned down during the ending sequence, promising a fully
immersive experience
of pure horror.
Although to experience the most
immersive surround sound result that includes more precise placement
of overhead sounds and sounds that pan from one channel to the next, having a Dolby Atmos capable home
theater receiver is desirable, but you don't need to have a Dolby Atmos setup or special Blu - ray Disc player to play this disc.
Verdict: Filled with thoughtful special features and ready to max out your home
theater, this Blu - Ray cut
of The Jungle Book supplements an already rewatchable feature with an
immersive amount
of bonus elements.
In Year 9, 13 - and 14 - year - old students wrote plays about the French and Russian Revolutions and performed
immersive theater to a public audience
of over 200 people, including members
of their local history association and
immersive theater actors and producers.
As a
theater major, she spent most
of her undergraduate life shuttling between the costume shop and the scene shop, creating dynamic,
immersive art environments.
They'll have their textbook to work with throughout the course
of the term, and they'll also watch speeches, documentaries, and listen to
immersive theater experts speak in class.
How do we use
immersive theater — where the audience becomes part
of the play — to tell a story within the French or Russian Revolution?
Recognized for having some
of the richest, most engrossing storytelling in the industry, throughout the years, Assassin's Creed has succeeded to position as a true entertainment license, transcending video games to offer new and
immersive experiences on comic books, mobile games, and novels and even movie with the worldwide release
of the feature film «Assassin's Creed ®» which opens in
theaters on December 21, 2016.
Considering that both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 pump out
immersive, 5.1 - channel Dolby Digital Surround Sound (with the PS3 even able to deliver 7.1 - channel LPCM), the aural capabilities
of both consoles are usually only harnessed by gamers with pricy, often bulky, home
theater systems.
It was only inevitable, then, that someone would do an exhibition that surveys the trend toward bringing moving images out
of the
theater space and creating more
immersive experiences.
He has designed objects for the Spiderman — Turn Off The Dark, a musical production in New York City; Sea Glass, a futuristic carousel in Lower Manhattan NY; created site specific installations for an
immersive theater project «Queen
Of The Night» at Paramount Hotel in New York City; designed giant inflatable scenic objects for the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony.
«THE FORCE
OF THINGS» Music theater as immersive installation: This «opera for objects,» by the important young composer Ashley Fure (collaborating with her brother, the architect Adam Fure), makes sounds through unexpected connections, in a kind of vibrating stillnes
OF THINGS» Music
theater as
immersive installation: This «opera for objects,» by the important young composer Ashley Fure (collaborating with her brother, the architect Adam Fure), makes sounds through unexpected connections, in a kind
of vibrating stillnes
of vibrating stillness.
Among the highlights
of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency
of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own
theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event
of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances
of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation
of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an
immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation
of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story
of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency
of the human body and spirit.
Elliott Hundley's intricate and
immersive works evolve from his historical research on
theater, literature, and film, emerging in this exhibition from an exploration
of Antonin Artaud's enduringly imperative play «There Is No More Firmament.»
Recent exhibitions include a 10 year survey
of Sergej Jensen's work, Lari Pittman's monumental From A Late Western Impaerium, a new body
of ceramic work by Liz Larner, Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin movies and
immersive sculptural
theaters, Anish Kapoor, Glenn Ligon's Well, it's bye - bye / If you call that gone, Rachel Harrison's Three Young Framers, Matthew Barney, John Bock's Three Sisters, Toba Khedoori, Abraham Cruzvillegas» Autoconcanción, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Theaster Gates» But To Be A Poor Race.
With more than 200 galleries from around the world exhibiting at this year's The Armory Show, there was a plethora
of works large and small to consider, and simply finding one's way through the morass
of booths, gallerists, fairgoers, collectors, performance artists and photographers felt like an
immersive theater experience.
Dreamlands:
Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905 - 2016, the latest exhibit at the Whitney Museum, brings cinema out
of the movie
theater and into the museum.
Awards from $ 2,000 to $ 10,000 were made to support artists that reflect a diversity
of talent and creativity for projects including
immersive theater, interactive media experiences, documentary film and musical composition.
Welcome to Being There, a column on the emerging world
of immersive entertainment — from virtual reality and theme parks, to haunted houses and interactive
theater.
Many
of these elements are familiar; alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling have been around since the 1990s, and
immersive, site - specific
theater is certainly nothing new.
For all its
immersive pleasures (and terrors), The Lust Experience alternate reality game represents an enormous investment
of time and attention into something that is ultimately word -
of - mouth marketing for the ticketed events — though the creative team is quick to point out that the
immersive theater shows are also designed as stand - alone experiences that can be enjoyed by anyone.
The premise
of the «mid-season»
immersive theater show in December — which costs $ 150 — is that guests are invited to visit OSDM headquarters for a better understanding
of how the group actually operates.
Thanks to a series
of announcements from A / V heavyweights Yamaha, Marantz, and Denon, home -
theater owners are getting more and more
immersive - audio options: Yamaha announced its first DTS: X firmware upgrades, while Marantz and Denon announced Auro - 3D upgrades to select models.
The Oculus - produced Wolves in the Walls used
immersive theater actors from the production Then She Fell in order to do the motion capture, and to help tell the spatial story using the body language
of an embodied character in the story.
The recently released Ready Player One movie did not include some
of the «story - living» live action role playing scenes that were included within the novel, but Ernest Cline was definitely attuned to the trends towards
immersive narratives when his novel came out in 2011, which is the year that the Punchdrunk
immersive theater production Sleep No More opened up in New York City.
With a plethora
of patented audio technologies built into every speaker, whatever home
theater system you choose delivers
immersive effects in any room.
Since our primary consideration was performance in a home -
theater setting, Onkyo's $ 899 HT - S7700 is our top pick, because it's the only one
of the three systems to support the
immersive audio technology Dolby Atmos.
If you've longed for
immersive audio in your home
theater, but balked at the thought
of installing speakers in your ceiling, MartinLogan has a fantastic solution.
The player reminds me a great deal
of Twitch's optional
theater mode, though I appreciated that I didn't have to do any tweaking to make YouTube Gaming look
immersive.
«I think in every sense the fans made it better,» Bousman says, and there is no better example
of that influence than in Tension's
immersive theater production itself.
«One thing that I've learned is that the only thing that's different between
immersive theater and any kind
of good storytelling is that you can be a little more on - the - nose,» explains Sears, noting that the medium's «live» nature adds an extra layer
of verisimilitude.
It essentially amounts to taking the kinds
of interactive, real - world interactions we currently see in
immersive theater or haunted houses, mixing them with the Star Wars mythology, and letting the whole thing play out in a massive, all - encompassing sandbox built for that express purpose from the ground up.
Immersive audio formats such as Dolby Atmos ®, DTS: X ® and Auro 3D ® are taking home
theater audio to the next level by adding height effects to what has traditionally been a single plane
of surround sound coming from speakers in front
of, behind and around a listener.
The Prime Elevation is the perfect speaker if you desire the most
immersive height effects experience possible, or an easy - to - install high performance home
theater speaker that solves a multitude
of room placement issues.
This aspect
of Pandora — merging
immersive theater with the big - budget theme park world — points to impressive possibilities, particularly if Disney decides to push things further on the narrative front.
HFR, high frame rate technology was originally ushered in
theaters for movies like the Lord
of the Rings but the 60 FPS didn't work out so well for the
immersive cinematic experience.
«For about the price
of a good soundbar, SVS delivers an
immersive 5.1 home
theater experience from a system that includes five Prime Satellite speakers and a powerful SB - 1000 subwoofer.»
Home
theaters running height effects speakers with Dolby Atmos ®, DTS: X ® and Auro - 3D ® represent the pinnacle
of immersive home audio experiences.