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Brian Hapcic
The Adding Machine

Author: Brian Hapcic

Performance space: Norton Theatre

Theatre company/company produced for: University of Northern Colorado

Month & year of original production: February 2011

Description of items intended for exhibition:
Video clip

Project description:
Lighting design relying heavily on the use of projections as light sources.

Artform:
Lighting Design

Designers:
Set designer: Zachary Keller
Costume designer: Aaron Sheckler
Lighting designer: Brian Hapcic
Sound designer: Chris Lundahl
Digital video NA: Brian Hapcic
Director/choreographer: Harrison Butler

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Brian Hapcic - The Adding Machine

Mouth Projection
As Zero enters his home he is greeted by a verbal lashing from Mrs. Zero. A video close up of her mouth spewing the monologue is the main light source, symbolizing the verbal beat down Zero receives each night...

Brian Hapcic - The Adding Machine

The Office
A constantly rotating set allowed projections of numbers to creep all over the set pieces and characters.

Brian Hapcic - The Adding Machine

Death by Strobe
Zero finally snaps and murders his boss in a carefully choreographed dance between the chorus and characters, all under a progressive strobe. The first single flashes signified Zero's moments of breaking, and gradually took over the lighting syntax.

Brian Hapcic - The Adding Machine

The Chorus
The surreal and masked Chorus were omnipresent in the stage picture, moving in and out of shadows creating by heavy projection and breakup.

Brian Hapcic - The Adding Machine

Zero on Trial
Heavy haze and rings of light created a "jail cell" as Zero rotated through the beams, all the while pleading his case to the chorus of "judges".

Brian Hapcic - The Adding Machine

In the Machine
Zero confronts his fate as the projections and lighting distort and reveal the final judgement.

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