Halfway House Documentation
243 views · Published 21 March 2013 · 1:07 · Indexed 10 October 2026
Channel: Matthew Ragan · 2013 · Education
This semester I worked as a media designer for a small scale production in the School of Theatre and Film. Media design is an interesting beast in the theatre. Designers are called upon to create digital scenery, interactive installations, abstract imagery, immersive environments, ghost like apparitions, and a whole litany of other illusions or optical candy. The media designer is part system engineer, part installation specialist, and part content creator. This kind of design straddles a very unique part of the theatrical experience as it sits somewhere between the concrete and the ephemeral. We're often asked to create site specific work that relates to the geometry and architecture of the play, and at the same time challenged to explore what can be expressed through sound and light. The Full Documentation can be viewed here: http://blog.matthewragan.com/2013/03/phase-2-halfway-house.html
