City Hall

This is where alight Twilight event is being held:

Timothy Allen

 

Timothy Allen is a talented composer and musical arranger.
He specialises in working with people who have no previous musical experience - enabling them to achieve their potential. As a musical director and vocal coach, he has trained over 5,000 singers, and arranged or orchestrated nearly 1,000 songs during his 15 year career.
His arrangements have been performed worldwide, including The Royal Albert Hall.

"Olympic Triptych" takes its inspiration from two themes, and three words. The themes are those of the Olympic ideal, and the development of Sheffield as a city. The three words, which delineate the three sections of the piece, are Unite - Arise - Alight.

Composition began in September 2011, and the first two sections were workshopped with some of the participating groups on Bonfire Night, 5th November 2011. Ensembles involved in the final piece include Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus (the commissioning choir), Sheffield Music Academy, Sheffield City Opera, Escafeld Chorale, BeVox (Timothy's own choir), New Mill Male Voice Choir, Sheffield University's Singing Society, Sheffield Bach Choir, Concord Youth Music and the Endcliffe Orchestra.

"Olympic Triptych" will be the finale of the "Alight: Twilight" event - a fully scripted show with narrative, projections, several orchestras and multiple choirs. The event is being directed by Mark Langley, and will bring together participants from across Yorkshire. Tickets will be available from December 2011 - link to follow.

More information about Twilight

I found this crucial piece of information that gives me alittle bit more information about the main people involved in the Twilight set

A city. Its people. Their music. On this unique day over 750 performers will join together to celebrate Sheffield’s contribution to the national BBC/LOCOG led Music Nation weekend, a countdown event for the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. Local musicians, singers and dancers will perform in a one-off evening spectacular created by Mark Langley that will celebrate the musical, cultural and historical events that make up our great city of Sheffield. The performance will be a fully directed show with a narrative starting from when Sheffield was first recognised as a city in 1893. Musically flying through the decades Alight: Twilight will culminate in the world première of Timothy Allen’s “Olympic Triptych” which has been specifically composed for the unique forces in the Oval Hall taking part in this truly once-in-a-lifetime event.

Deciding on the outcome

After carefully reading through the brief i have chosen to go down the projection route, the requirement is:

''specifically for the ‘Twilight’ event at the City Hall – to be used in the venue, to accompany the experience of the musical performances themselves. Can be still-image sequences or moving, but should not be synchronised to performances.''

As i am doing motion graphics i really want to keep developing my skills and with this side of the festival hopefully i can chanllege myself and come up with something intriquing and unique.

To move on from here i am now going to research more into the 'twilight' part of the event to see what it entails to help me form my animation

existing branding for festivals

 Just thought it would be interesting to look at existing posters for music events, just to see the layout, what information they've included, the imagery, the text, the colours and the overall style. Its interesting to see the variation in look depending on the what the event is about.

Participatory Design, Public Interaction

After that inspiring workshop i thought i go see if there any examples in the design world of people using this tech technique, or the idea of letter others create the art

http://vimeo.com/11328910

This student was testing to see if people would write their opinions of police, in an anonymous yet public way. This let the audience decide how the final poster looked liked. Furthermore the crucial part of the whole design was their comment so in that way the designer has left it up to the public to be in control and be controversial or not.


This video shows an interactive poster concept whereby each poster stand has an inbuilt webcam which them can be linked with another stand so two people can have a conversation with each other. I thought this was a very clever way of getting people to interact with one another

Out of my control & Crowd Speak

In this workshop we were each given a blank letter from the word 'alight', we were then instructed to add a small design to it, them pass the letter on to the next person, this carried on for the full session and by the end each letter had been fully illustrated in some way by everyone in the room.

Its a fascinating way to work as it means letting go of your creative control and letter others influence the design. Normally i'm a bit of a control freak when it come to my work, but i found this workshop quite enjoyable. I really like the idea of everyone participating in the design and the final results  were quite rewarding.